Joseph Avakian

Relevare …

Is the Latin word by which we derive the word relevance, or relavant, meaning “raising up”! What is it that catches our ear? our sight? or our heart? Relevance is what makes a speaker and their theme, look or emotion so captivating to its audience. But what is the key that helps us become more […]

ouch-tegration …

… is integration gone wrong! It has always amazed me that the world is a place that says and reflects "we are integrated" but is quite in segregation. I believe it seeks integration … meaning let us remove the gaps between us and let us put into the past that which we were and doing […]

Sinsile (Community) …

… is the gathering of many individuals, right? Well not really. The Word community comes from communion … right? No! Its source originates from the Latin for communis. What really makes a community is not numbers or common dwelling (even though that helps!) What makes a community is their common ownership. No this is not […]

The Gospel According …

… to Gnosticism has again surfaced with the discovery of a scroll written around AD 280, that is shedding new light to supposedly Judas Iscariot. Gnosticism has been around long enough. Anyone with access to the Internet that among the so-called Early Christian writing, the Gospels of Thomas or James was among those that promoted […]

Why?

Ever wonder why we start asking the Why question as soon as things don’t go well? In the midst of the world trying to worry about many things one of the things I was thinking about was the Bird flu (Avian Flu) that has been something many Governments are trying to keep under control and […]