Tag Archive for: War

Emotional Surrogacy

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Next Step with Fr. Vazken #728: Spiritual Surrogacy, from a child’s teddy bear found on the streets of post-war Artsakh, to Christian ideas of transferring responsibility.
“Artsakh: Power of Prayer”
Marina Mchitarian-Lazaridou, PhD.
While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Concert for George)
Ashot Aroustamiants Yeg Im Tarus
Leo Tolstoy: Confessions and Other Religious Writings
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Battlefield Prayer

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Next Step with Fr. Vazken #722: A prayer from the battlefield, timeless as Armodoxy itself, “Shnorya Mez.” 1700 years in the Sequoias and Armenia. Lessons from two youth events, at school and church. Another look at the “Older Brother,” squandering and rewards. Pope in Malta: Peace generates prosperity, war only poverty.
Pope Francis in Malta
Prayers from the Peace Hour
Prodigal Son
Collective Prayers for Peace
Armenian Public Radio
Cover: Sequoias 2022 Fr. Vazken
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Jesus Eyes

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Next Step with Fr. Vazken #721: All the beauty of this world can be wiped out with the push of a couple of buttons. Playing by the rules of humanity instead of the rules of politics. You’d like to believe war is good for “absolutely nothing” until you stop and think how it grabs your attention. Conflict resolution with new metaphors. Imagine a modern day R&R prophet. Francis consecrates Ukraine and Russia. Tears shed over a rose in the rain. Dilemmas of the ethnic church(es). The cheap route of genocide recognition.
Francis Consecrates Russia and Ukraine
Kareem Abdul Jabar on Will Smith
The lost “four white guys”
Universal Soldier by Donovan
Cover: Tears shed over a rose in the rain, Fr. Vazken 2022
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WWJB?

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Next Step with Fr. Vazken #719: In today’s podcast: Absurdity abounds with a question and the seeming answer. 2.5million refugees and thousands dead, on this fourth week of the War in Ukraine, people are justifying peace! Not just-war but just-peace: absurdity. Pope Francis calls up Kirill and says there is no holy war. Lessons not-learned: generations that will be affected after War. Here’s an Armodox look at what’s going on.
Pope Francis video-conferences Patriarch Kirill on War
Patriarch Kirill hears from the Pope
Orthodoxy on the Russian World Teaching
Reclaim 2022
Where to watch Reclaim 2022
Duduk of Vache Hovsepyan
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Impacting Hope

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Next Step with Fr. Vazken #718: “I love God but I feel God doesn’t love me enough,” says a Ukrainian soldier and analysis leads to paralysis: A look at hope, faith, religion in the face of war. Prayers that won’t “stop the bleeding or ease the hate.” Maternity ward bombing: Why would they possibly kill babies? An answer from Rwanda 25 years ago. The rules of war and the end game. TV was to Vietnam what the Internet can be to Ukraine, and War Games gives a solution. This Lent: A different attitude toward prayer: Adding the first lines to the Lord’s Prayer.
Maternity ward bombed in Ukraine
War Games
Jesus at M*A*S*H* 
Eric Burdon and the Animals
Cover Photo: Peace Shadow, Fr. Vazken 2008
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Dust goes by

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Next Step with Fr. Vazken #696: What really lasts forever? From our Dust in the Wind Department: Sears closes Illinois office. Lessons for the Church. Catholicos Karekin II meets with Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. Books to be held: “Humanity During War” by Ezras Tellalian. The Tale of Two Babies – a metaphor for today and the grander-tomorrow. From our mixed shoes department: “They were Chris’, not mine.”
Tale of Two Babies
Everything Must Go (at Sears)
Catholicos meets with Pope
Pope’s visit to Armenia (2016) NS#490
Humanity During War
Fr. Vazken on Humanity During War
Chris Brown / In His Shoes
Kansas: Dust in the Wind
Put Your Hand in the Hand
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iACTivism in Armenia

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Next Step with Fr. Vazken #695: Interview with iACT Founder and Chief of Vision Gabriel Stauring and iACT Executive Director Katie-Jay Stauring, about their work with refugees, displaced individuals, war, Genocide and an approach to healing. The War in Artsakh, one year later, thoughts for spiritual Q&A.
iACT news: Facebook page
iACT website: www.iact.ngo
“King of Glory” Q&A one year after the war 
iACT – Mindfulness and Soccer in Armenia 
Interview video: https://youtu.be/BKs47NLYopU
Greetings of Hope: Armenians to Darfuris
In His Shoes Mission
Arpi Alto
Arpi Alto Channel
Cover: iACT Soccer ball in rest on a field in Goris, Armenia, 2021
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Thought Process

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Next Step #686: A thought process that takes you from the reality of war to an answer found in the song of a people. Leaving the neighborhood: Christianity on the border. With Azeri aggression front and center, and a silent world community, Fr. Vazken leads the listener through this short journey, not down a rabbit hole, but to an end with identity nourished along the way. Defining identity through memory. Finding hope
Azeri latest attack
North & South Korea restore hotlines
Olympic Videos
Fiji Rugby Team Singing after winning gold
In His Shoes Mission
Hope for Haiti Now
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All that’s Found

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Next Step #650: “Miracle is a word that is often repeated” in the stories from Artsakh: Psychologist, photojournalist and deacon Ezras Tellalian shares stories from the ground. Listen to a story of discovery (Part 1): Lost and found homes & hope. God on the front lines: Finding peace as the bombs fall. Better than casino odds: time to put up or shut up.
Ezras Tellalian presentation
Ezras Tellalian photography
Passing: Archbishop Sebu Chouljian
Bodhisattva Prayer for Humanity
Hope Rising by Armen Chakmakian
Cover: Reflection on “Protected by State” Dadivank, Fr. Vazken 2019
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Aftermath

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Next Step #649: And when the war was over… Confusion, frustration and anger are all part of a story we’ve heard before Artsakh. Some answers in the aftermath, with a vantage point from beyond, one which once inspired us. Here is a story of hope in the aftermath of a modern day Avarayr, and the aftermath of the US elections.
Chuck Holton on Horizon TV (at min 27:40)
R. Ezra Telalian Photography
Prayer Vigil in Glendale
Janis Ian
Cover: Aftermath 2009 Fr. Vazken
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