The Next Step

Next Step #182: En route from Phoenix to LA, Fr. Vazken stumbles on satellite programming - XM style. From the divine to the vulgar - here's a call for common sense in life and Christianity without the shame. Words can't express the disgust, but here's a try... also in this episode - the enduring power of the stardust, the Muppets, quick answers for Heaven & Hell, the wind storm in Pasadena and more.

Song: "Light of the World" from Godspell

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Next Step #181: A Thanksgiving episode that reveals the 'secret' of Armenian Orthodoxy. A parade opens this message of memories and leads to Thanksgiving "moments." Turning from victim mentality to victor through thanksgiving. A means of survival and growth. A special edition podcast recorded before the dawn.

Thanksgiving with Gabriel in Darfur: Truth Be Damned

Greetings from One Genocide to Another: http://youtu.be/weuwKPjvhu0

Song: "Meeting My Past" by Ara Dinkjian (An Armenian in America)

Thank You Very Much by the Scaffolds

Ani's Bubbles: Thanksgiving Message

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Next Step #180 : When a catholicos marginalizes prayer, its power stays unleashed and love is not explored. Another catholicos is ready to put it all in perspective - from his vantage point and with the maharajahs who missed the Armenians. After a brief visit to Armenian land, Fr. Vazken returns without jet lag but with some extra baggage. Continuing on Politics and Religion: finding mission in everything we do. Regis & Jerry: do we need to know everything? News from epostle.net too - Armodoxy has arrived.

Armenian Consulate's page

Song: "Dream of Life" by Haig Yazjian

Ani's Bubbles: "Lessons from the Porcupine"

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Next Step #179: Just back from Blogworld and New Media Expo, the Epostle.net team is renewed and exploring the dimensions of social media today. The pen, several years ago, was mightier than the sword. Today, emails seem passe. How social media and technology are being exploited by the Gospel. Andy Rooney's passing. Still trust the politicians? A big shift since the 1970's - how politics "validates" religious leaders; hypocrisy and the crimes we commit. The "boldness" of St. Peter and the Apostles are expressed in the post-resurrection experience, circa Pentecost 33.

Ani's Bubbles: Lesson's Through Life's Stages

"Song of the Genius" by Gor Mkhitarian www.gormusic.com

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Next Step #178: The Occupy Movement - temporary problem on the street? Or the true product of injustice? Protesting big business and a tie to the protest led by Jesus.The Next Step is laced with protest - and it looks like we had the spare pair, all along. Thank God for Abp. Shnork and the unknown priest in the Eastern Diocese who wrote the manners and conduct manual in the 1950s. Thank God for the life of the "God generation" and their example of love and responsibility. Is Church a hobby?

Ani's Bubbles: Grace Explained

Song: Øystein Sevåg's "Crystal Palace"

Jethro Tull's Hare Who Lost His Spectacles

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Next Step #177:  The Next Step runner gives cause for a metaphysical test which then leads to a reality check. Virtual reality in cases of images, concepts and God are checked by the reality around us. Can God be checked? Christ gives us a sure-fire method of making God real in our lives. Identity check with the Armenian and Christian realities. More on the family as the story of sacrifice unfolds.

Kicking Cancer and Kicking off Team In Her Shoes

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Song: Forever Young by Norah Jones at Apple Steve Jobs Memorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdFt2KFcZdQ

Ani's Bubbles: Happy Celebrations at Halloween

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Next Step #176: The discussion about end times consumes this podcast - but not all about the Rapture! Once again, the headlines discredit the Christian church by throwing the baby out with the bath water. Two Catholicoi land on the North American continent; Marriage is losing and so are the children as modern family life looks beyond the children it produces. Beginnings of a discussion/dialog about the forgotten children.

Story of Stacie Crimm's sacrifice

Song: "Fire of your Love" by Hover

Ani's Bubble: Questions for God.

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Next Step #175: The Church today is so close and yet so far away. Fr. Vazken gives a view from the 8th floor of the medical building, looking over Little Armenia, watching a Pontiff and the children he visits. The weekly feasts of the Holy Evangelists comes as a reminder to The Gospel and The Mission of the Christian Church. In His Shoes and Armodoxy as expression of that mission today - hear how. (More on the visit of Catholicos Aram in last week's NS #174)

Music: "Vagharshapati Bar" by Khatchadour Avedissian

Ani's Bubbles: "The Sparrow at Starbucks"

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Next Step #174: Steve Jobs' Passing. Fr. Vazken reflects on Jobs, the visionary and the pioneer, bringing together some personal reflections from the early days of Silicon Valley and implications of those reflections for Armodoxy. "We are HERE because of him," says Fr. Vazken. Each step matters - first steps lead to the next steps. Politics in the Armenian Church: Why are members of the Armenian Church feeling disenfranchised? Catholicos Aram I visits the Southland - the office and the person, the custom of "achahampouyr." The Armenian Church at the abortion clinic - priorities for the Armenian church - don't throw out the baby with the Bathwater! A poem by Lory Bedikian - "Self Portrait with Crane" from The Book of Lamenting - brings together this episode about church - state - diaspora realities. A must hear!

Music: Switched on Bach by Wendy Carlos on Moog Synthesizer

Ani's Bubbles: Abbey & Meridith.

Pomegranate & I blog: A Song, A Dance, and a Blessing

In His Shoes Mission in an Armenian Village - A miracle with music by Gor Mkhitarian: http://youtu.be/IuNb4xSLPtI

Silicon Valley blog by Fr. Vazken

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Next Step #173: The great "blessing mystery" solved! What is a "Blessing"? Fr. Vazken reveals an answer 29 years in the making. Many blessings - including for water-wells and pre-werewolf adolescents. Exploring the nausea that comes with blessings over childbirth. The piece of sand spins inside this oyster to reveal a blessed pearl! Prayers offered for Abortion and Domestic Violence: applying what we have learned from Christ. Lessons for the Christian Church. Next Step reaches its 6th continent.

Music: "Blessings" by Gor Mkhitarian www.gormusic.com

Ani's Bubbles: May all your prayers be answered

29 Years in the Making: http://armodoxy.blogspot.com/2011_09_01_archive.html

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