The Next Step

Next Step #212: Returning from a trip to Wisconsin, Fr. Vazken explores some of the challenges of a Virtual Church. The Importance of touch, action and empathy in the Christian equation. Interview with Fr. Nareg Keutelian, pastor of St. John the Baptist Armenian Church, on technology, the church and the phenomenon of non-ethnic Armenian Church members. Is this where Armodoxy is headed?

In Milwaukee: http://milwaukeearmenians.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/one-sunday-three-priests-a-family-celebration-at-st-john/

Song: "Antza Gnatzi" by Andranik Mouradian, Ethnic Sketches

Window: http://acrag.wordpress.com/

Fr. Vazken's Sermons: http://armenianorthodoxy.blogspot.com/

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Next Step #211: A 35 year old debt is paid back, across generations and across continents with the passing of two gracious ladies Alice & Freda.

Song: Yerginkn Ambel E by Artur Sedrakian

Compass: "Tit for Tat"

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Next Step #210: 4th Anniversary Edition/Celebration. Australian Coffee - nothing down-under about it. Prove you're alive with this simple breathing experiment. The transcendence of time/space through the Church. The power of the Pentecost was the ability to transcend the temporal limitations. No need to check-in your brain to follow Armodoxy. "Etchmiadzin in Mission," said HH Karekin I, (1995-1999) - how to apply "etchmiadzin" to our daily and community life.

Song: "Good morning, defeat" by Gor Mkhitarian from United Fantasies

Ani's Bubbles: "Loving Kindness"

Hayk Foundation: http://haykfoundation.org/

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Next Step #209: Poet/writer Lory Bedikian interviewed on "Book of Lamenting" - Topics: difficulties, lament, life-travels and healing. More topics discussed by Fr. Vazken on this episode - by-passing evil and "going to Hell." The Transit of Venus, on the Queen's Jubilee - Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl. "Etchmiadzin as Mission." Epostle.net at the end of Year  #4 - what's done and what awaits. A visitor from Down Under.

Book of Lamenting: http://www.anhinga.org/books/poet_info.cfm?poet_name=lory%20bedikian

Song: "Prayer of St. Gregory" by Alan Hovhaness

Ani's Bubbles: "Doll Maker" - www.bacheegsandlove.blogspot.com

Silent Auction: https://www.facebook.com/events/280249275402685/

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Lory Bedikian

Next Step #208: Artificially inseminated women bringing their children for baptism? Continuing on discussions of same sex unions, the next step with the children. Finding better weapons to bring about peace. Is it possible? Here's a true story - Yvette's website. The Mormon dilemma of the evangelical right.

Ani's Bubbles: Strength & Weakness

Song: "As I am Alive" by Yeghish Manoukian (with Gregory Beylerian, dahm)

Silent Auction: https://www.facebook.com/events/280249275402685/

Yvette's Website: www.inhisshoes.org/yvette

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Next Step #207: Beginning steps in sexual and reproductive ethics, in light of Obama's evolutionary revelation. Expressions of gay lifestyle and tolerance through the Armodox lens. Another lens points to the Eclipse of the Sun. Reflections on the Pentecost feast and the descent of the Holy Spirit.

Song: "Amen. Hayr Sourp" by Vazkenian Seminarians

Ani's Bubbles: How much do you make? 

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Next Step #206: The Feast of Ascension (Hambartzum) is celebrated as a reminder of Christ's Great Commission, to take the Gospel message to the world. The power of God within our lives. Rejecting the superstitions of the destiny via Tumanian's poem, Anush. An Ascension day experience: are pork-chops the menu-item of choice? Have you seen the little piggies...? Why is Jesus missing from the list of philosophers? Cutting the 7 knots that keep us captive.

Song: Excerpt from Anush Opera, live recording by Viola & Ben Choupak, Marineh Huntsman

Anush Opera in the UK: http://www.accc.org.uk/anoush

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Fr. Vazken removing the 'tel'

Next Step #205: Obama evolves on homosexual marriages while others evolve on the genocide recognition. Gay and Lesbian Marriages and the Armodoxy Response; "Chapter" books have the answer. More on Mary Madelyn's status update from the Holy Sepulcher. Armodoxy surfaces.

Song: "Sevani Tzugnors Baru" - 1970 Personal Recording

Ani's Bubbles: Touchstone

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Next Step #204: The infrastructure of the Church - necessity or hindrance to its mission? More than an exploration, Fr. Vazken begins a needed discussion about the workings (and trappings) of the Church. Business is a means of actualizing the goal and in the case of the Church, profits are measured differently. The case of Fr. Barthev, brings an interesting sideline discussion about the "Mission" of the Armenian Church. Looking beyond "normalcy."

Ani's Bubbles: The Dinner Letter

Song: "Haneluk Es" by Shiraz

NPR story on Fr. Barthev: http://www.scpr.org/news/2012/05/01/32244/popular-armenian-priest-leaves-us-and-young-parish/

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Next Step #203: Stories from a week of commemorations. The UCSB Commemoration and the lonely Turk. Santayana and Hitler - an axiom delivered 15 years later. In a Rwandan museum and the Question "Which Genocide?" as humanity running backwards.The Misunderstood Jesus and the power of Armodoxy: Overcoming with the power of love. European education and community issues. A priests log of commemoration events - bringing it all together with solid answers for victory.

Links from today's show:

In His Shoes: http://InHisShoes.org

Rwandan Genocide Blog: http://dervaz.blogspot.com/

Adam Schiff & Condoleezza Rice: http://youtu.be/OhF-y6k3AI8

April 24 in Etchmiadzin, Armenia: http://youtu.be/d1rJP2fbc38

Song: "Jesus" by Cat Stevens

Ani's Bubbles: He needed me.

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Hayoo Acher