“Have I been blind?” I found myself asking this question to an empty room the other day. In fact, I’ve been asking myself this question a lot lately.

Before my joining the Kevorkian Seminary, I felt as though I had a solid grasp on a few things. Putting aside things digital in nature, my knowledge of the Christian Faith and the Armenian Church were right at the top of the list. I was no theologian, but my foundation was strong, and I was confident that the fundamental elements of my faith were well within my grasp.

Boom

Despite this, over the past months even some of the most basic Sunday-School-level truths have been revealed to me in ways I never before appreciated. St. Paul says that as a Christian you need to undergo a revolution of the mind (or a renewing of the mind). I feel like that’s what I’ve been experiencing here. Not a fantastic all-at-once mind blowing revolution, but the sort of revolution that occurs in spurts and lurches. Something more akin to real change.

Prayer, reflection, and the good instruction of men with insight have made this possible. Yet, what good is knowledge unless it can be shared?

In effort to practice a skill that will most likely be the cornerstone of my career, I’m going to try and distill this learning into simple and straightforward writing that I hope people will find understandable and will resonate with their spirituality even a fraction as much as it did with mine.

Over the next month, and especially the next two weeks, I will be blogging about these topics.

1. Resurrection: Faith’s Tipping Point
2. The Holy Trinity, the Eternal Party
3. The Holy Trinity Part II, and my Emblem
4. What Is a Priest?
5. In Church All Day Long
6. Playing with Patterns and Symbols
7. The Badarak, Rebooting
8. If You Can Say It, You Can Sing It
9. The Other Creed
10. Simeon Yerevantsi and Productivity
11. Today’s Church and Why It Shouldn’t Be Necessary
12. The Early Church, A Doctrinal Wild West
13. And more! Maybe…

Short and Sweet

My goal with these blogs is basically to discuss these topics with brevity and lightness. I’ll try to provide as many links as possible so that the reader can jump off and explore these topics further, if they’re so inclined.

Another motivation I have is that I have not often found literature on the Internet which either regards these topics in general or directly speaks the Armenian Church’s take on them (in English). So hopefully these will become a few more nodes on the Internet that the intrepid Googler can stumble upon when seeking to know more about our faith.

My First blog should be posted tomorrow, or the next day. I hope you enjoy them and please post feedback or questions!