We have now gotten up to Chapter 15 in our Bible study on the Gospel of John, and everyone including me are amazed at how rich and profound this book is in theology, writing and understanding of the human condition. How strange then that John’s first recorded miracle of Jesus-also today’s assigned reading, is when…
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.
Church is not just something we do on Sunday, it is something that by doing we become-we become participants, members of the Spiritual body of Christ. Yes our membership must first and foremost be local-here and now in this church with these people-but it is also meant to extend into the entire world, encompass our…
The Sunday Reflection of Ms. Sarah Stites, Director of ‘AYO’ a program of Fund for Armenian Relief.
The Gospel reading for today’s first Sunday of Advent is our seasonal realignment to get our priorities right; warning against the addictive nature of worldly wealth and what true riches actually are. Today’s parable is the story of a man who amassed greater and greater wealth, only to have has life taken away before he…