Disconnects that Aren't Obvious

Next Step #216: Who said, greater love has no man than to lay down his life for his friends? No really, who said it? Colorado shooting - a world where violence solves so much - why doesn't the alternative make sense? Do you really want to be like Steve Jobs? Wired Magazine presents the puzzle - he was a Buddhist and tyrant, a genius and a jerk, his life is an inspiration and a cautionary tale - Fr. Vazken puts it together with our personal reflections. Olympic time, again.
Song: "Tamara" by John Bilezikjian
Ani's Bubbles: "Special Olympics" http://bacheegsandlove.blogspot.com/
Wired Magazine re: Steve Jobs
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Evangelizing Apples, Life and Death

Next Step 215: Armodoxy in evolution - Celebrating the Priest as the Celebrant of Life. The wisdom of vartabed/kahana structure. Hovhaness Tomanian's battle against backwardness. Transfigured trilogy - Faith, Hope and Love. Developing evangelists based on the Apple mystique. Passings: Andy Griffith, Ernest Borgnine and Fr. Peter Gilquist.
Song: "Gadag Bar" Vanoush Khanamirian 
Coming Home
Rethinking Armenian Protestantism
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Missing the Point - Need a Tent?

Next Step #214: At the Transfiguration Peter loses sight of the celebration and asks the mundane. A look at Kazantzakis' Last Temptation of Christ, and some other bothersome questions: why death? why cancer? why children die? Reconnecting with the past and finding relevance. A trip up to the Sugar Pine. More on the Higgs Boson - and not losing the point at the Transfiguration.
Ani's Bubbles: Hope - http://bacheegsandlove.blogspot.com/
Song: Uzundara
Thoughts on Last Temptation
Why you should care about the God particle (Higgs boson)
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The God Particle We Knew About

Next Step #213: Looking beyond the known universe and finding pre-Big Bang evidence. The discovery of the Higgs boson God particle - St. Gregory anticipated it. Additions to the Creed - Pontius Pilate is absent but St. Gregory's Proclamation is in place in the Armenian tradition. Excerpts from the dinner conversation with Arman Satchyan, winner of the auction item.
Earlier than Universe from Yerevan
Higgs Boson - Discovery May Help Tell Universe's Secrets
Higgs Boson cartoon
Madame Kubah on Facebook
Compass interview with Arman Satchyan
Song: "Birth of a Star" by Torkom Saraydarian
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