Childbearing as a God-given commandment. “With God’s power I gave birth to a man” (Gen. 4:1). Childbearing in the center of Biblical and patriarchal life: Abraham and Sarah, Elkanah and Hannah, Zechariah and Elizabeth. Difficulties of becoming a mother and the strengthening of faith. Annunciation of the Mother of God. Parenthood as godlikeness.
- Speaker: Fr. Husik Dokholyan
- Host: Deacon Vardan Aslanyan
The German writer and political figure Anna Seghers was born in Mainz, in a bourgeois family. Her first stories appeared in the middle of the 1920s, and in the first story, "Grubetsch," she clearly reflected the reality. In the novel "Die Ziegler," she presented the tragic fate of a small man. The suffering of the Ziegler family of artisans has a direct connection to the German bourgeois reality of that time. Seghers centers her attention not only on the victims of social injustice, but also on those who fight against it.
The example of the culture as well as the national and religious self-perception of Sassoun’s converted non-Christian and Arabic-speaking Christian Armenians. The Christian faith and Armenian language as pillars of Armenian identity. The “Arabic” identity invented for the purpose of survival. The strong community ties and isolated life of Sassoun Armenians in Turkey.
- Speaker: Sofia Hakobyan
- Host: Deacon Vardan Aslanyan