The Next Step with Fr. Vazken

The Next Step with Fr. Vazken


Latest Episodes

Bubbles
May 06, 2022

Next Step #726 with Fr. Vazken: Bubbles and more bubbles on Cinco de Mayo. Reflections/meditation on putting together a picnic, a diocese and life. An encore presentation of “Ani Bubbles.”1927 – Makin

Paradigm Shift
April 28, 2022

Next Step with Fr. Vazken #725: The change is happening. Did you feel the latest paradigm shift? Begin with a shift of focus: Commemorating the Armenian Genocide, from remembrance to a day of lif

Tsundoku
April 21, 2022

Next Step with Fr. Vazken #724: Books you can’t read, words that don’t exist and stories you can’t tell, all in this post-Easter, pre-GenComm episode. We’ll spell out the answer: Archimedes and L

Footprints at Calvary
April 15, 2022

Next Step with Fr. Vazken #723: Finding the missing step and the next step at the foot of the Cross and at the Empty Tomb. A look at some of the traditions that cheapen spiritual discovery. The a

Battlefield Prayer
April 08, 2022

Next Step with Fr. Vazken #722: A prayer from the battlefield, timeless as Armodoxy itself, “Shnorya Mez.” 1700 years in the Sequoias and Armenia. Lessons from two youth events, at school and chu

Jesus Eyes
March 31, 2022

Next Step with Fr. Vazken #721: All the beauty of this world can be wiped out with the push of a couple of buttons. Playing by the rules of humanity instead of the rules of politics. You’d like t

An Up Reclaimed
March 24, 2022

Next Step with Fr. Vazken #720: The “here we go again” trigger to depression: Accept or not? Overcoming depression with evolution: Reacting to Ukraine. Reclaiming faith and a conference in its 6t

WWJB?
March 18, 2022

Next Step with Fr. Vazken #719: In today’s podcast: Absurdity abounds with a question and the seeming answer. 2.5million refugees and thousands dead, on this fourth week of the War in Ukraine, pe

Impacting Hope
March 11, 2022

Next Step with Fr. Vazken #718: “I love God but I feel God doesn’t love me enough,” says a Ukrainian soldier and analysis leads to paralysis: A look at hope, faith, religion in the face of war. P

Nero & the War
February 24, 2022

Nero & the WarNext Step with Fr. Vazken #716, February 24, 2022. Nero played his fiddle while Rome burned, so they tell us, taking him to a point of irrelevance as a leader. Today, Russian invades