The Next Step

Next Step #262: The 5th Anniversary Edition - Looking inward at the Next Step and the phenomenon of an "open" Church where ideas are expressed and explored. Commencement at the Graduation. Morning Evangelists peddling filtered water and more. SUN CEO McNealy told us over a decade ago to "Get over it." So why are we still concerned about privacy? And what about an All knowing God?
Message to the Graduates
Anush's Pomegranate - "Not all who wander are lost"
Song: "Gakavik" by Gor Mkhitarian on the Acoustic Folklore Album
McNeal - an end to privacy (1999)
Engineered by K.T.Nalik

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Next Step #261: The symbiotic relationship between man and woman, Church and Christ are revealed during a Glendale wedding. Listen in as Fr. Vazken shares a story within a story. The tragedy of not forgiving and not moving forward - it effects more than you might imagine. Prayers for the graduate coming up.
Song: Sarkis Kazaryan, Rachmaninoff 
Anush's Pomegranate Seed: "What's Hair Got to Do with It?"

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Next Step #260:  Personalized Coke and hate speech on Facebook - protests and financial withholding bring about change in the market, and why not the Church? Foster families and children - an epidemic in the works. Datev Outreach and the "Godparent" oath of faith, hope and love.

Song: "Spirit in the Dark" Aretha Franklin with Get Well wishes

Anush's Pomegrante Seeds: Lessons From Vegas

Reference Articles:

Companies Pull Facebook Ads Over Violent Content

Personalized Coca-Colas, But Not If Your Name Is Mohammed Or Maria

Campaigners Force Facebook Into Hate Speech

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Next Step #259: Spinning in our favor: Discovering the Acts of God in Oklahoma and elsewhere on the planet. Unraveling the Mysteries of the Holy Spirit, dispelling the "chosen" myth and "blasphemy against the Spirit." When an atheist looks up, does s/he see the moon? what else? Pope Francis has his take on atheists this week. Lessons from the watering truck at the rest stop.
Song: "Heavenly Sunday" by Gor Mkhitarian
Anush's Pomegranate Seeds: "Wanting More"
Salvation Army Tornado Assistance
Moon is hit by rock
Sun Sash: http://sunsash.blogspot.com

"Conversation" with Stepan Partamian 

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Next Step #258: From a broken telescope to a broken heart, it's a matter of perspective. Out there in the universe is something so complex that it demands mapping like the Human Genome Project. From thought, to feelings, to emotions to the soul, this podcast explores vast territory. The Holy Spirit and Pentecost - the beginning of something great. Angelina Jolie, President Obama, and Michio Kaku, St. Nersess, and Bill Gates -  they all make us proud to be a Windows based operation!

Song: "Love" by Joni Mitchell

Anush's Pomegranate "Why Pray"

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

The Box

Dad dancing

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Next Step #257: Psychic phenomena - getting it wrong with the 3 kidnapped girls. Taking away hope. It can happen by reading Armenian coffee cups. Reader's Digest wants to tell us about the top 100 trusted people, revealing more about themselves and their audience. Celebrating the phenomenon of the Youth Ministries' Center, with the King of Bahrain.

Anush's Pomegranate Seeds - Why I walk

Donate to Fr. Vazken's Walk Against Breast Cancer

Song: Vijag by Zulal (live version) 

10th Anniversary story

Psychic predicts death of girl 

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Next Step #256: The Latino Reformation (Time Magazine) and lessons for Orthodoxy. The ethnic experience - when a minority is the majority-minority, issues of inferiority surface in many ways. Young students (UCSB-ASA) and politics as usual - when they quote MLK and Gandhi without remembering Jesus, a part of the message is lost. Editing: making the Church relevant.
Anush's Pomegrante Seeds: The Hummingbird Feeder
Song: Gospel Harmonettes "Peace in the Valley"
Time Magazine - The Latino Reformation
Next Step with Maida Icliates

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Next Step #255: Walking through 6 cities* to the Armenian Genocide Martyrs' Monument - It's a walk "In His Shoes" - It's a change of perspective. Keeping identity in the aftermath of Genocide. The scorecard on the "Combined" Divine Liturgy - Diocese, Prelacy, Protestants and Catholics - who's who and what's what? Was this Liturgy a spiritual awakening? Or another political ploy to get the "troops" in line? Fr. Vazken gives his perspective. The "God Generation" - they came after the Genocide. A book introduction - "Nowhere, a Story of Exile."
*Six cities - Pasadena, San Marino, San Gabriel, Alhambra, Monterey Park, Montebello.
Anush's Pomegranate - Facing Genocide Awareness and Beyond Recognition
Song: Hovhaness Badalian - "Hye Enk Menk"
Book: Nowhere  - Story of Exile
Armenian Genocide Martyrs Monument - www.uacla.com
To donate to the Little Ripples project - the purpose of "The Walk" press on the donate button at www.InHisShoes.org

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Next Step #254: Finding God in the chaos. Fr. Vazken unravels the events of the week, which included the worst of the worst - domestic violence, terrorism and Genocide - and even finds God as the antithesis of chaos.  Don't be afraid to point him out, he says. Datev Outreach, the Boston Marathon bombing, and the screening of Bared Maronian's "Orphans of the Genocide" are woven together in this interesting journey from chaos to order. It is a mystery and it is deep.

Anush's Inside the Pomegrante - Finding the Helper

Song - Isabel Bayrakdarian "Khorhoort Khorin"

Slipstream http://jethrotull.com

Datev Outreach http://datevoutreach.org

Boston Marathon: Where Was God During the Boston Marathon?

Orphans of the Genocide (7 minute trailer); Order the full-length DVD

St. Peter Youth Ministry - 10th Anniversary

St. Peter Booklet form 

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Next Step #253: Returning from a lively conversation with Stepan Partamian at GCC, Fr. Vazken reflects on Christianity today, as applied in society. Ethnic identity via the church? Breaking the stereotypes of the Church and Christianity. More topics: The cornerstone of Armodoxy is to look beyond Biblical mythology. Talking about birth control to a people who have experienced Genocide? Case in point: Rwanda. Non violent resistance and disciplining the masses. Case in point: Armenia. The different perspectives of religion; the Holistic approach to God via Armodoxy. Much more...

Stepan Partamian: http://www.partam.com/

Anush's Pomegranate Seeds:  "Thoughts on Fasting"

Song: "Orhynyal eh Asdvadz" by Winds of Passion

Flyer for event: http://tinyurl.com/gcc-dv-part-13

New video series: www.youtube.com/armodoxy

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