Succeeding in Mask Management

Next Step #282: The Halloween Edition of the podcast on Armodoxy. In this episode - follow up to Glendale's restriction on free-speech - Fr. Vazken gets a call. All Saints Day and Halloween. Identity in a Global Community - delineating between ethnic and religious identity. Looking under the mask of our life and finding ourselves, looking under the mask of the church and finding Christ - the One who is the Way, the Truth and the Life. YWCA and KFC - what's the branding all about? Great Treats in this edition!
Song: Aragil by Margar Eghiazarian
Catholicos Karekin II's speech in Korea
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Six City Walk Against Genocide

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
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Virtual Reality Check via Christ

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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Working the Streets with Love

Next Step #109: Ara Arzumanian of Generation Next is our guest.  He discusses his article “Lost Kids of Armenian America”. Working with young people on the streets of Glendale, Ara gives a unique perspective of a growing problem, including drugs, sexual promiscuity, theft, gangs, and violence. A small glimpse at the kids and one man’s crusade to educate and mentor. Empty egos, identity and self-knowledge are all part of the discussion along with an added bonus: a primer on V-techs and Armos and the White washed.
Song: “Hayr Mer” by Samvel Gregoryan http://armeniansound.net/samvel-grigoryan-hayr-mer
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Ara Arzumanian and Fr. Vazken Movsesian disussing life on the streets of Glendale.

Identity via Something Bigger than Self

Next Step #107: Remember when “Rolling Stone” was counter-culture and war was unpopular? Developing identity in a changing world – (see The Atlantic Magazine article). The World Cup, Wimbledon and the Lakers – lessons on bringing peace and love to Kyrgyzstan and Darfur and rejecting bad-religion. Thoughts from inside the funeral procession: continuing to build the Virtual Church.
Song: “Shalakho” by Datevik http://www.naregatsi.org/Datevik/
Ani’s Bubbles: May the Budgie of Happiness Sit on Your Head, http://scrubsmag.com/author/aniburr
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Three Funerals and an Identity

Next Step #48: The collective and past moments in our individual lives has contributed towards our identity. Earlier this year, Fr. Vazken’s trip to Armenia initiated a discussion at Etchmiadzin, the Holy Mother See, about identity. And this week with the passing of three people, Ankine Mouradian, Jora Markarian and Rev. Fr. Vartan Dulgarian, the line is drawn between their lives and ours. Using the metaphor of the onion, we can imagine ourselves as being composed of layers, and each layer around us there for a reason, including the hurts and the pains we’ve lived through. These are the experiences that today give us the strength to reach out to someone else now experiencing the same. What about the purity of the message? Well, time to tune in and find out how to keep it pure.

Ani’s Spiritual Bubbles talks about priorities.

Global Perspective with Hratch Tchilingirian: World Press Freedom Day and the theme of media potential in fostering dialogue, mutual understanding, and reconciliation to focus on the moral responsibility of reporting the truth.

Musical selection is Melineh Kurdian singing “As Good as You” from her album, From Where You Are.