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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For Marriage and Children Too?

Next Step #176: The discussion about end times consumes this podcast - but not all about the Rapture! Once again, the headlines discredit the Christian church by throwing the baby out with the bath water. Two Catholicoi land on the North American continent; Marriage is losing and so are the children as modern family life looks beyond the children it produces. Beginnings of a discussion/dialog about the forgotten children.
Story of Stacie Crimm's sacrifice
Song: "Fire of your Love" by Hover
Ani's Bubble: Questions for God.
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Surreal Church: So close and Yet so Far Away

Next Step #175: The Church today is so close and yet so far away. Fr. Vazken gives a view from the 8th floor of the medical building, looking over Little Armenia, watching a Pontiff and the children he visits. The weekly feasts of the Holy Evangelists comes as a reminder to The Gospel and The Mission of the Christian Church. In His Shoes and Armodoxy as expression of that mission today - hear how. (More on the visit of Catholicos Aram in last week's NS #174)
Music: "Vagharshapati Bar" by Khatchadour Avedissian
Ani's Bubbles: "The Sparrow at Starbucks"
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First Step for Technology & Armodoxy

Next Step #174: Steve Jobs' Passing. Fr. Vazken reflects on Jobs, the visionary and the pioneer, bringing together some personal reflections from the early days of Silicon Valley and implications of those reflections for Armodoxy. "We are HERE because of him," says Fr. Vazken. Each step matters - first steps lead to the next steps. Politics in the Armenian Church: Why are members of the Armenian Church feeling disenfranchised? Catholicos Aram I visits the Southland - the office and the person, the custom of "achahampouyr." The Armenian Church at the abortion clinic - priorities for the Armenian church - don't throw out the baby with the Bathwater! A poem by Lory Bedikian - "Self Portrait with Crane" from The Book of Lamenting - brings together this episode about church - state - diaspora realities. A must hear!
Music: Switched on Bach by Wendy Carlos on Moog Synthesizer
Ani's Bubbles: Abbey & Meridith.
Pomegranate & I blog: A Song, A Dance, and a Blessing
In His Shoes Mission in an Armenian Village - A miracle with music by Gor Mkhitarian: http://youtu.be/IuNb4xSLPtI
Silicon Valley blog by Fr. Vazken
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All Things Blessed and Blessings

Next Step #173: The great "blessing mystery" solved! What is a "Blessing"? Fr. Vazken reveals an answer 29 years in the making. Many blessings - including for water-wells and pre-werewolf adolescents. Exploring the nausea that comes with blessings over childbirth. The piece of sand spins inside this oyster to reveal a blessed pearl! Prayers offered for Abortion and Domestic Violence: applying what we have learned from Christ. Lessons for the Christian Church. Next Step reaches its 6th continent.
Music: "Blessings" by Gor Mkhitarian www.gormusic.com
Ani's Bubbles: May all your prayers be answered
29 Years in the Making: http://armodoxy.blogspot.com/2011_09_01_archive.html
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Declaring What is Evident

Next Step #172: Twenty years of independence for Armenia gives cause to reflect on "declaring what is self-evident" and how to take the next step to actualize dreams of independence - personally and as an institution. Determining which laws are just and which are unjust. What is God's law and rules? A reading of the Declaration of Independence and Dr. Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingham Jail. Just/unjust laws. Why you won't see things getting better in the Armenian Church. The role of institutions: maintaining and preserving the status quo. We know the problems - now what's the solution - When the door opened the first woman deacon entered - its time to do the same. The Centrality of Christ in the Church - if He's in the church, what is more important outside? If he's not, everything outside can be more important. Answering the argument and problem of language in the church - here it is!
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Music: "Mer Hayrenik" - National Anthem of Armenia. Watch video at http://youtu.be/je95_TmJd6s 
Ani's Bubbles: What Cancer Can Do.
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