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On the night before the British census of April 1, 1911, a woman named Emily Davison spent the night locked in a broom closet in Westminster Palace. Why? Because Davison was a leader in the campaign for the right of women to vote and be elected to office-which was illegal at the time. So she…
We all hear something different when we hear the word Christmas and all we hear are small parts of the soundscape of Christmas. But with so many voices and a fair amount of noise flooding the air in the Christmas season, we must be careful to hear what was originally said-the Avedis-the good news of…
Sunday Sermon by Dn. Alex Calikyan.
The Sunday Reflection of Ms. Sarah Stites, Director of ‘AYO’ a program of Fund for Armenian Relief.
If a book was to be written about how not to be elected and how not to be popular, Jesus would probably be the main character. In today’s Gospel reading, we see that Jesus is becoming popular and electable, and he does what he can to ruin that. He insults his potential donors and powerbrokers…
As those of you know who have travelled through the seasons with me a few years, I struggle with holidays like Halloween, Valentines Day and even Christmas, which seem to have lost much of their original meaning and function mainly as consumer holidays. That struggle was real yesterday as Narek, Nora & I wandered through…
‘My heart is Democratic, but my brain is kind of Republican,’ said JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon years back, and I resonate with that myself. There is an openness and idealism about being a democrat, openness to immigrants, to the downtrodden and to the rest of the world that I think is virtuous. And…