Next Step #675: Ascension Day, fighting in Syunik, response. Taking Archimedes’ principle of fulcrums to leverage change against the odds. Common sense weaponry for the world. Changing the conversation to empowerment.Azeri forces in SyunikDr. Hratch Tchilingirian, Christianity in Artsakh100 Year Journey – a virtual portalZaruhy Sara Chitjian (1933-2021, Mexico to Los Angeles)Martin Luther King Jr. Peace WalkArchimedes, Levers and FulcrumsLeveraging Love – video by Fr. VazkenWD168 this weekHapartzoum Yalla from Anush OperaProduced by Suzie Shatarevyan for InHisShoes.orgListen via Stitcher Radio on demand! Listen on Apple Podcasts If you cannot see the audio controls, listen/download the audio file here

Next Step #674: Azerbaijanis in the Armenian Church at Shushi under the guise of renovation. Archbishop Barkev of Artsakh, speaking from a place of authority and a mystical place. Some basics of civility. “Demanding” from others? Here’s what the punks asked and what we answer: Plainly, what we have to offer the world. Elevate the conversation.Azeris in Shushi’s GhazanchetsotsWD168 this weekInternational Clergy Conference 1991Archbishop Barkev blessing (00:45:00) and sermon (01:10:00)Haig Beylerian, I’m ArtsakhProduced by Suzie Shatarevyan for InHisShoes.orgListen via Stitcher Radio on demand! Listen on Apple Podcasts If you cannot see the audio controls, listen/download the audio file here Church at Shushi at four different points in time

Next Step #673: Post Genocide-recognition- downshifting to use lower gears to go faster. Fr. Vazken talks about the importance of the genocide tag and some of the dangers of the designation. Comfort directed: Christian responsibility in the face of evil. Politics and the license to play with history. Philosophy, reason, God. First look at an old book: Tolstoy’s “My Religion”. Calculations for today: 4weekETBIn His Shoes Mission Statement Congressman Adam Schiff reads Pres. Biden’s Letter re: GenocideArmenian Film Foundation“Survivors” by Don and Lorna MillerDeitrich BonhoefferGenocide Commemorative ConcertLeo Tolstoy, “My Religion”“We will not be erased”WD168 – this week: Post Genocide-RecognitionAra Topouzian Stringed TranquilityProduced by Suzie Shatarevyan for InHisShoes.orgListen via Stitcher Radio on demand! Listen on Apple Podcasts If you cannot see the audio controls, listen/download the audio file here San Francisco Street downshifting

Next Step #672: On the eve of the Armenian Genocide anniversary: Challenges to the necessity or nuisance side of remembrance. Genocide: The voices that matter. George Floyd murder trial. Keith Ellison on “Justice.” Order of events: Resurrection does not preceed crucifixion. Abp. Jose Gomez’s voice. South American Armenians. Fr. Levon Apelian, passing noted.George Floyd, “Language after Asphyxiation”Michael Arlen “Passage to Ararat”Abp Jose Gomez on Social JusticeKeith Ellison and comments on Floyd Murder verdictWD168 for this weekHaig Yazdjian “Beast on the Moon”Produced by Suzie Shatarevyan for InHisShoes.orgListen via Stitcher Radio on demand! Listen on Apple Podcasts If you cannot see the audio controls, listen/download the audio file here

Next Step #671: When Protestants discover the apostolic notion of the community, from the me to the we. The “bear” and the priest: an explanation. Space/Time, apologetics and the changes of demanding answers. Thomas’ doubt, natural experience. The centricities of ethno, geo and helio. Ken update #1.Armodoxy YouTube ChannelWas the Early Church a Cult? Sermon by Mike KimWD168 this weekSt. Thomas, Denis DeBlasio Flute Contemporary VirtuososCover: Water at the Grotto, Oregon, 2017 Fr. VazkenProduced by Suzie Shatarevyan for InHisShoes.orgListen via Stitcher Radio on demand! Listen on Apple Podcasts If you cannot see the audio controls, listen/download the audio file here

Next Step #670: After Easter, how the message “Christ has risen” moves from idea and story to inspire us to action. Primal Scream: Where is my mother? The sacrifice of the grain. Crucifixion: if not for Christ’s sake, then for who? Ken Nalik tribute (NS 2008-2021) Vazgenian Seminarians at Lake Sevan.Passion of the Christ, Mel GibsonSmoking Cessation through timeWD168 this weekLuys Vocal QuintetProduced by Suzie Shatarevyan for InHisShoes.orgLook for The Next Step on blubrry.comListen via Stitcher Radio on demand! Listen on Apple Podcasts If you cannot see the audio controls, listen/download the audio file here

Next Step #669: Holy Thursday, with the intertwining of the narrative with the poetic, the Passion of Christ is presented in new forms. The seven knots, the string and the story. Human contact returns during the feet washing service (John 13) after a year of lock down: Moving from 2D to 3D church. Recorded in between liturgies and services.Holy Thursday Feet Washing & Order of Darkness 2021Fr. Vazken’s Palm Sunday SermonDarkness Sermon (PrePandemic)Good Friday Sermon (2019)This week’s WD168The Tradition of the 7 knots by V. Rev. Fr. Barouyr ShernezianEaster Hallelujah by Cassandra Star Armstrong and sister CallahanEngineered by Ken NalikProduced by Suzie Shatarevyan for InHisShoes.orgLook for The Next Step on blubrry.comListen via Stitcher Radio on demand! Listen on Apple Podcasts If you cannot see the audio controls, listen/download the audio file here

Next Step #668: How I spent my Lenten vacation? Want to give it a try? Guilt and sin: setting a standard for the Christian. Overcoming addictions: drugs and religion. JW’s go for a GQ look for Jesus and vestment/textiles discussed at Tufts, all in this episode of the Next Step. Lenten Journey 2021 WD168 this week Hampig Sassounian parole Palm Sunday at St. Gregory, Pasadena Hymn for Lazarus Saturday, Vem Radio Office of 10 Maiden (join by Zoom) Cover: Armenia 2009 Fr Vazken Engineered by Ken Nalik Produced by Suzie Shatarevyan for InHisShoes.org Look for The Next Step on blubrry.com Listen via Stitcher Radio on demand! Listen on Apple Podcasts If you cannot see the audio controls, listen/download the audio file here Armenia 2009 Fr Vazken

Next Step #667: Setting a new pillar of Armodoxy, this, in the light of the Second Coming. The Gospel by the four evangelists, according to Jesus and according to Paul: Spin the spotlight and take a look beyond the rhetoric. An understanding that moves Jesus from the temporal to the universal – why Matrilineality 2000 years ago. Get ready to be challenged and see the Kingdom as expressed by Jesus Christ. Judas was replaced by Matthias, Paul’s Conversion, Handmaid’s Tale, the Middle East and Christology without ethnicity.Matrilineality in JudaismBurbank BusinessFeast of St. Gregory of Narek at the VaticanIrish Heartbeat Chieftains & Van MorrisonLenten JourneyCover: publicdomainpictures.netEngineered by Ken NalikProduced by Suzie Shatarevyan for InHisShoes.orgLook for The Next Step on blubrry.comListen via Stitcher Radio on demand! Listen on Apple Podcasts If you cannot see the audio controls, listen/download the audio file here

Next Step #666 - March 11, 2021 - From sheep, to seeds, to chess, it's about the metaphor/platform for the timeless Gospel message.  Lessons from Reclaim - faith in a post-pandemic world, on the first anniversary of the WHO proclamation. Agape love, found on Earth and at the last station stop. Pope Francis in Iraq and a meeting to bring Peace. Walking away from Bible study - not for the first world? Elevator rides beyond the 12th floor and the trip back down all in this episode. Lenten Journey 2021 by Fr. Vazken Reclaim 2021 videos - watch here WD168 This week Pope Francis in Iraq Inside the Vatican Podcast Join Fr. Vazken for Sunday Service Colin Hay Waiting for my real life to begin Penguin Bloom Cover: Public Domain Engineered by Ken Nalik Produced by Suzie Shatarevyan for http://InHisShoes.orgLook for The Next Step on blubrry.comListen via Stitcher Radio on demand! Listen on Apple Podcasts If you cannot see the audio controls, listen/download the audio file here