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Able to Remark

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Next Step #653: Remarkable are the things that leave us in awe and remarking on the possibility vs. probability of an event. Connecting the dots from Ohio to Yerevan: Extending the “Small World Theory” to humanitarian aid. Rejecting the ego to see clearly our place in the universe. Dangers of religion: Self-justification with no questions. Exercise: Viewing the Christmas Tree.
Jim Lovell’s “Earth Rise”
Christmas Star – Jupiter & Saturn align
Small World Problem
Operation Hope – “Ohio to Yerevan”
Jack in the Green, Jethro Tull
WD168 for this Week
Armenian American Medical Society
Peace Now & Forever T-Shirts
Toy Drive – for domestic violence kids and for Armenia
Cathia Hamparian Children’s Memorial
Arpi Alto
Cover – Owl, 2014
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Plastic: Molding Faith

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Next Step #638: As the political atmosphere heats up with elections two months away, religion, particularly Christianity, comes into question as politicians justify actions and policy with a wide variety of departures on theology. Fr. Vazken offers a primer on politics and the use of religion, finding the grey matter between the black and white, conservative and liberal. Qualifying politicians by the Christian scale: the plasticity of the faith to conform to the world and an Armodoxy look.
Those Were the Days by Mary Hopkin
Billy Graham’s granddaughter on Evangelicals today
WD168 this week
Armodoxy Blogspot
In His Shoes
Plastic Man Wiki
Cover: PM/No.1 Fr. Vazken 1966
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Box Cars

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Next Step #628: Twelve years to the date of our first WEEKLY podcast: Recommitting to the ministry that brought us here. Cautions against the new fanaticism in the guise of religion – justifying hatred in the name of God. Warning: May induce vomiting. The usual scapegoats and how they’re being used this time to deflect personal responsibility. Coining the phrase “Happy Harry Syndrome” and simply expressed: iPhone+FB= The Electronic Fallacy. Reflections on celebrating anniversaries in the middle of world crisis and the pandemic. A tapestry that has been woven.
Vay Mayrik
Consecration of Dome Cross at Etchmiadzin
Flashback: Next Step #8a (China Olympics 2008)
Armodoxy YouTube Channel
Reflections, Etchmiadzin, The Archbishop’s Anniversary and a Carpet
Aunt Jemima brand is out 
Father’s Day Reflection (Joseph & Mary’s Son)
Thoughts on White Privilege
LGBTQ & DACA Supreme Court Decisions
Cover: Tempe Diner, 2012 Fr. Vazken
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Another Corner Conversation

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Next Step #600: Standing on the corner of Jerusalem and Pasadena, a conversation between two priests opens a conversation about relevancy in time and space. Religion or Entertainment? XM Radio makes a profound decision for us all. Cannibalizing the past: Reflections at the #600 mark of the Next Step. A BIG Thank You to all our listeners and supporters!
Jethro Tull‘s “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen”
Black Friday: John Lennon on TV’s and Peace
Jerusalem Old City
Abp Hovnan Derderian, Stories from Life
Children’s Memorial
Toy Drive Wish List : http://tiny.cc/IHS-wishlist
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Celebrating the Drummer

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Next Step #587: Celebrating the individuals who walk to the beat of Thoreau’s drummer. Not waiting until death to appreciate the beauty people offer our world. Packaging religion and hatred: more than a word of caution, a challenge to reject. Tolerance and understanding today. Bizarre revelation: Trumpeter or con? Creative astrology. Have we forgotten to evolve? God’s foundation in us and not the program.
Adiss in Yerevan
Memory of Setrak
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Adiss Harmandian
Adiss will not die by Lucy Deukmedjian
Sasnashen project
Cover: Stilt-walking, San Mateo Park, Fr. Vazken 2019
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Randomized Blessing

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Next Step #572: Of things electronic and otherwise: Randomness in nature might be more difficult than developing random code. From blackjack to the order of the universe a look at easy ways-out for science and religion: Fr. Vazken connects these dots. 100 Monkeys typing 15 characters: The odds. USC Innovate Armenia – a chance to Reclaim lost or missing. And more.
Element Band
Element Band at USC
Astounding Universe “Random”
USC Innovate Armenia
Blessings
Soufra Film
In His Shoes – Ascencia Chef of the Year
Cover: “Fr. Gourgen’s hand-cross” by Fr. Vazken 2018
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Poconos

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Next Step #529: “Living a Life Worthy of the Lord” (Col 1:10) thoughts from the Poconos at Youth and Family Conference of the Malankara Archdiocese of the Syrian Orthodox Church. Incident in Armenia and Lincoln Nebraska 60 years later. Lessons in miseducation: the ease of fighting for religion rather than living faith.
Malankara Church Music
The Malankara Archdiocese of the Syrian Orthodox Church
Shootdown incident – 1958 in Armenia
Colossians 1
Monsters on Maple Street
The Day After
Kalahari Resort in Poconos
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Busy Bodies of Religion

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Next Step #514: The forgotten epilogue of St. John’s Gospel explored, bringing a lesson of religious relativism in pluralistic society. Discover this unexplored passage. More on Fr. Vazken’s recent Mormon experience in Utah. Beyond debate: finding the sacredness in our lives. The “Follow Me” command and Peter: from denial to reinstatement. When cartoons moved from animals with persona to persons with animal antics.
“River of Tears” by Credo /
Droopy “Northwest Hounded Police”
Joseph Smith Statue at Temple Square
Melchizedek Wiki
Reinstatement of Peter
Cover: Busy B on Virgil, circa 1990s
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Cancer: the Great Equalizer

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Next Step #484: Post-event reflections. Surviving a 39 mile walk and living to tell about it. And how? By connecting the dots between God, faith and religion, how else? Here’s a behind the scene look at the appeal of a difficult event and how it becomes a privilege to participate.  Applications for models of service and funding. Thoughts on the threshold of funding our important outreach programs. Cancer as the great equalizer.
Reincarnation Armenian Music Band
Avon39
Team In Her Shoes (pictures too)
David’s Story
“Seven” by Jacqueline Leo
Give Well Non-Profit rating
Parable of the Good Samaritan
Euphemism
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Boldness in Flavor and Action

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Next Step #479: A wrong grave site and a wrong head stone lead into a discussion on faith and religion – the non-science of the day. Grapeblessing and the Asdvadzadzin – Fr. Vazken reveals a message that is lost in the vines: revealed through the passages of the day.
“We Used to Bach” Ian Anderson www.JethroTull.com
“We Used to Know 29 Years Later” blog by Fr. Vazken
AC101 on Grapeblessing
Bible Study on productivity (8/7/17)
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