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Julie Zimmermann, Director
Julie Zimmermann has an elementary education degree from Concordia University Chicago and has taught kindergarten, first, and fourth grade in addition to working as a homebound tutor, substitute teacher and early childhood music instructor. She became a member of St. Mark's Church in 2006 and has made it her mission to help connect families to Jesus and one another through her volunteer work at church. She has served as chairman of the preschool board, nursery committee member, VBS volunteer, and coordinator of Jesus, Mommy & Me Playgroup. Currently, she coordinates Parents Fellowship and Bible Study groups at St. Mark's.
Julie lives in St. Charles with her husband Jonathan and three children, Olivia, Mary Emma, and Jonah – two of whom are St. Mark's Preschool alumni! In her spare time, Julie enjoys reading, writing, going on family vacations, and watching her children perform in concerts and theater productions around town.
Jennifer Auriemma, Administrative Assistant
Jennifer joined the St. Mark's ministry team in 2017. She brings incredible experience in office settings and being a mom. She lives in St. Charles with her family.
Tim Bayer, Senior Pastor
Tim Bayer joined the St. Mark's ministry team in 2016. He brings a love for faith formation and development in children and famliies that expresses itself in chapel services and resource development.
Tim holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Sociology from Concordia University Chicago and a Master of Divinity from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis. He is also a Doctor of Education candidate at Concordia University Portland (Oregon). He lives in St. Charles with his wife, Beth and their two children, Ethan and Noah. Together, they enjoy the outdoors, travel, and fine wine (without the kids).
Ann Cannon
Ann Cannon graduated from Missouri State with a BS in Home Economics and a specialization in Early Childhood Education. Ann has been with St. Mark's for over 25 years, starting as a substitute teacher and classroom assistant, and then becoming a 3's teacher. She is currently the T/Th 3's Teacher and M/W/F 3's Assistant. Her many hours in early childhood also makes Ann director qualified. Before coming to St. Mark's, Ann taught kindergarten in Texas and was also an assistant director in a private child care center. Ann and her husband are active members of St. Mark's church where she has also taught VBS, Sunday school and midweek programs. They have 2 grown daughters and 3 grandchildren. Ann likes to walk, cook, read, sing in church choir and play with her grandchildren.
WHAT I ENJOY MOST ABOUT WORKING AT ST. MARK'S: I enjoy teaching the kids about Jesus through prayer, song and bible stories in this Christian environment.
April Claussner, Adminsitrative Assistant
April Claussner has a Mathematics secondary education degree from College of Notre Dame of Maryland. She became a member of St. Mark's Church in 2009. She enjoys a variety of volunteer positions including volunteering at the elementary school, Girls Scouts, and Community Supper. For the past seven years she has also taught preschoolers at Bible Study Fellowship. She enjoys spreading the love of Jesus especially to children and moms.
April lives in St. Charles with her husband Keith and three children, Kara, Amanda, and Kayla – two of whom are St. Mark's Preschool alumni! In her spare time, April enjoys playing soccer, crocheting, craft projects with her girls and watching her children play soccer.
Julee Cranfill
Julee Cranfill is the Assistant Teacher in the M/W/F 4's. Her daughter and son are St. Mark's alumni and after spending 5 straight years with them in school here, she joined the St. Mark's staff – first as a substitute, and later making her way into the 4's classroom permanently. Julee has a BA in Journalism/Public Relations from NIU. She later completed Early Childhood classes to become teacher certified and also substitute teaches in several D303 grade schools. Julee is very involved with the St. Charles East HS Athletic Booster organization as well as St. Charles Swim Team. Her family resides in St. Charles and she enjoys boating, bike riding, cooking/baking and cheering for the ISU Cyclones!
WHAT I ENJOY MOST ABOUT WORKING AT ST. MARK'S: Teaching kids so many new concepts and then seeing how much they grow both physically and mentally over the course of the year!
Debbie Engle
Debbie Engel is the M/W and T/TH 2-year-old classroom Teacher. She comes to St. Mark's with 15 years of teaching early childhood. Debbie graduated from Oakland University in Rochester, MI with a BS in elementary education and a concentration in early childhood.
She is involved with her church Sunday school along with the puppet ministry. She has 4 daughters, 1 son and a son-in-law. Debbie enjoys reading, knitting and doing cross stitch.
WHAT I ENJOY MOST ABOUT WORKING AT ST. MARK'S: Looking forward to seeing what this first year here brings.
Anna Hutchinson
Anna Hutchinson has a passion for teaching the youngest group of students at St. Mark's – the 2 year olds – who meet on T/Th. She will be moving to a new age group this year – the 3 year olds – who meet on T/TH/F. She has taught for 10 years including other preschools in the tri-cities area. She attended Robert Morris University and also works for St. Charles Aquatics teaching swimming lessons and is a coach for the St. Charles Swim Team pre-team. Anna and her husband reside in St. Charles and have 2 daughters and one son, all of whom are collegiate swimmers. Anna's entire family enjoys being active in the outdoors and spending time together with friends and family.
WHAT I ENJOY MOST ABOUT WORKING AT ST MARK'S: I enjoy the children, of course, and also having the opportunity to serve the spiritual needs of them and their families.
Anne Hutko
Anne Hutko, Assistant Teacher in the 4-day 4's class, has also worked assisting in both the 3's and 2's programs here, along with preschool work experience prior to coming to St. Mark's. Anne lives in Geneva with her husband, daughter, twin sons and cockapoo, Duke. She holds a BS in Fashion Merchandising/Marketing from Eastern Michigan University and also completed additional hours to obtain teacher certification. Anne has taught children's bible study at her church and enjoys spending time with friends and family, interior design work, gardening, reading and working with rescued animals, primarily dogs.
WHAT I ENJOY MOST ABOUT WORKING AT ST. MARK'S: The friendly staff I work with and also sharing God's word with the children.
Patte Kingsley
Patte Kingsley, M/W/F 3's Teacher, has been a St. Mark's teacher for 28 years. Growing up in the Denver area, she attended Western State College where she studied Spanish. She also took early childhood classes at Elgin and Waubonsee Community Colleges that garnered her director qualified status. Over the years, Patte has both assisted and taught 3 and 4 year old classes. She and her husband have a grown daughter and son who are St. Mark's alums. Patte cherishes when she gets time with her grandchildren and also spending time tending her amazing garden, singing and playing the guitar. She and her husband enjoy their cat and yellow lab and love to go camping, boating and fishing.
WHAT I ENJOY MOST ABOUT WORKING AT ST. MARK'S: Experiencing the faith of the children that Jesus loves them and he is always with them.
Jean Petricca
Jean Petricca, a lifelong resident of St. Charles, is the Assistant in both the M/W and T/Th 2's classes. She graduated from Illinois State University where she majored in Theater and Political Science. Jean has been a swim instructor at the Norris Recreation Center for over 20 years. She and her husband have a daughter who is a St. Mark's alumni. She also makes her home with a golden retriever and rescue cats. Jean "loves life" and is happy to be on staff here at St. Marks.
I am grateful to work with these very young children in such a nurturing environment.
Stephanie Schmoker
The 4-day 4's Teacher, Stephanie Schmoker, attended University of Iowa and Loyola University studying English and political science/pre-law. She got her early childhood education at College of DuPage and Erikson Institute Chicago. She served as a CASA advocate while teaching preschool in Naperville. She also owned a boutique in Geneva named The Pink Hippo/ Ella's Pink Bowtique. Stephanie grew up in Sheridan where she currently resides with her boyfriend. She enjoys cooking, reading, fresh flowers and growing food – most notably a pineapple patch at her parents' vacation home in Florida.
WHAT I ENJOY MOST ABOUT WORKING AT ST. MARK'S: Being able to develop and implement a creative and academic curriculum in a spiritual environment and watch the children learn and grow.
Sue Strub
Sue Strub has been teaching 4-year-olds at St. Mark's preschool for over 20 years, currently the M/W/F class. She graduated with degrees in Elementary Education and Special Education from Carthage College and is also director qualified. She has over 30 years of teaching which include 2nd grade in Buffalo Grove and preschool/1st grade in Atlanta. Outside of St. Mark's she currently tutors many D303 students. Sue and her husband have a daughter/son-in-law and son and she became a grandma in July! Sue's talents and interests include decorating, gardening, exercising and bike riding.
WHAT I ENJOY MOST ABOUT WORKING AT ST. MARK'S: The wonderful families that are a part of this school and the Christian environment.


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This bright and cheerful holiday is celebrated in different countries in different ways, but everywhere he is loved and expect. Since the first days of December in the cities and villages, every team and every family can feel it coming winter celebration.
The custom of celebrating New Year first appeared in Mesopotamia. According to scientists, the first new year was celebrated in the third millennium BC. The tradition of celebrating the New Year was the fact that all the work started at the end of March, after the water was coming into the Tigris and Euphrates. Within 12 days of parades, carnivals, masquerades, and was marked by this event. During the festival, was forbidden to work and administer the courts.
Gradually the custom of celebrating New Year's gaining ground — the Jews who were in Babylonian captivity, borrowed this tradition from which it passed to the Greeks, and already by the Greeks — the nations of Western Europe.
When introduced a new calendar (today it is called the Julian), the first day of the new year was seen as the first day of January. The Romans that day sacrificed two-faced god Janus, and began that day, major events, including the first day of the year for any auspicious beginnings.

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"Science to Start-ups"—Innovation Corps launched by NSFPublished on August 1st, 2011 | By: Eileen De Guire
Our nation's capitol was an interesting place to be last week, but not because of the impossible-to-escape budget politics that dominated the newscasts. Last week I was in DC attending the NSF-ACerS workshop for principal investigators, and at every level of the NSF the message is "innovation."
On Thursday, NSF director Subra Suresh announced a major new program-the NSF Innovation Corps, or I-Corps. Using the tagline "Science to Start-ups," the purpose of the program (supported with new FY11 funds) is to leverage science and engineering discoveries into economically useful products and processes. In a press release Suresh says, "The United States has a long history of investing in-and deploying-technological advances derived from a foundation of basic research."
In the press conference (video), John Holdren, assistant to the President for science and technology and director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, outlined the three goals of the program: "to spur translational research, to encourage university-industry collaboration and to provide students with innovation and entrepreneurship training."
Also in his press conference comments, Suresh predicted that the I-Corps will establish an "innovation ecosystem" that will "transition scientific output funded by NSF into technological innovation."
The I-Corps also involves a public–private collaboration with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the Deshpande Foundation. Each I-Corps team will have a principal investigator, a mentor with exptertise at transitioning lab research into business, a post-doc or graduate student. The mentors are to be recruited from the ranks "technology developers, business leaders, venture capitalists and others from private industry.
Up to 100 projects per year will be funded at $50,000 per project for a six-month effort and a maximum of $5k can be allocated to indirect costs. Interested PIs are required to receive written approval to submit a proposal from an NSF program director. The submission window for FY11 proposals is Aug. 17-Sept. 9, 2011.
Because the program is new and has some unusual requirements and limitations, the NSF is conducting informational webinars on the first Tuesday of every month at 2:00 pm (Eastern time) beginning tomorrow, Aug. 2, 2011.
To be eligible for I-Corps funding, PIs must have current NSF funding or have had NSF funding within the last five years. New funding has been established for I-Corps, and the first awards will be made before FY11 closes on Sept. 30. NSF expects to award $1-2 million in FY11 and to grow I-Corps into a $10 million program. Awards will be made quarterly in FY12 and beyond.
Full details are provided in the program solicitation and in the I-Corps factsheet.
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One Response to "Science to Start-ups"—Innovation Corps launched by NSF
Big deal, they are adding money to already funded research scientist. I'm the president of a small company and all of the electronic paperwork has made it impossible to apply for grants on time. You have to have professional grant writers to get funded. Grants.gov is harder to use than paper applications and contrary to what they told you that if you register once you wont have to register again, they require more registrations making it much more demanding of time. If your comany does not have sufficient funds for grant writers its almost impossible top get funded. They typically give a comapny two months from announcement to application due date. Does anyone else feel the way I do about that?
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Click here or the book cover picture above to see PDF which includes all of the book (Title Page, Table of Contents, Section II (History of the First Amendment), Epilogue, Bibliography, and Index) except the INTRODUCTION and Section I.
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Click here to see PDF which includes all of the book (Title Page, Table of Contents, Section II (History of the First Amendment), Epilogue, Bibliography, and Index) except the INTRODUCTION and Section I.
See the Bibliography for list of resources which prove the assertions in The Trail of Blood of the Martyrs of Jesus.
Scholars confirm the historical assertions in the book. See, List of Scholarly Resources Which Explain and Comprehensively Document Facts Concerning True History of Religious Freedom in America
Doubting Thomas (Aquinas) on Private and Public Killing (111417) by Christopher O. Tollefsen is College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina.
Scholars and Catholic theologians know that Augustine and Aquinas favored public killing of "heretics," unlike the average Catholic and "Christian." Quote from the above article: "But Aquinas, for various reasons, including of course Scriptural reasons, carved out a clear exception to the default position against intentional killing when it came to those with public authority for the common good. I have argued before at Public Discourse that his arguments for that exception are exceptionally poor: his claim that in sinning a sinner reduces himself to the status of a beast and loses his dignity is false, for the sinner's dignity is consequent upon his nature, which does not change when he sins. And his claim that citizens are related to the polity like parts of an organism to the whole, and thus may be excised for the good of the whole, is also false: the state exists for persons, and not persons for the state. Moreover, Brugger has shown that the Scriptural warrant for thinking public authorities should be granted the exception is not as strong as St. Thomas thought."
When religion (Catholicism, Protestantism, Islam, Hinduism, etc.) and its adherents persecute true believers, they actually persecute Christ. Paul the apostle persecuted "Christians" but Jesus said to him at his conversion, "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?" (Acts 9.4, 22.7, 26.14). These religions and their adherents actually believe that that they are serving God when they kill those true believes whom they label as heretics. (John 16.2).
Excerpts from Texas Declaration of Independence: "… When the Federal Republican Constitution of their country, which they have sworn to support, no longer has a substantial existence, and the whole nature of their government has been forcibly changed, without their consent, from a restricted federative republic, composed of sovereign states, to a consolidated central military despotism, in which every interest is disregarded but that of the army and the priesthood, both the eternal enemies of civil liberty, the everready minions of power, and the usual instruments of tyrants…. In this expectation they have been cruelly disappointed, inasmuch as the Mexican nation has acquiesced in the late changes made in the government by General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, who having overturned the constitution of his country, now offers us the cruel alternative, either to abandon our homes, acquired by so many privations, or submit to the most intolerable of all tyranny, the combined despotism of the sword and the priesthood…. It denies us the right of worshipping the Almighty according to the dictates of our own conscience, by the support of a national religion, calculated to promote the temporal interest of its human functionaries, rather than the glory of the true and living God…."
Catholicism and Protestantism have never stood for separation of church and State, religious liberty, or freedom of conscience. As The Trail of Blood of the Martyrs of Jesus proves, Catholic theology teaches that "heretics" who refuse to convert are to be killed. Yet, the tireless efforts of Catholics and Protestants to deceive continue, as witnessed by the following conference sponsored by the Witherspoon Institute and the Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion : "Here I Stand: Conscience, Reformation, and Religious Freedom Across the Centuries". The following is a copy of the webpage advertising that conference (Click the image to go to the webpage):
Article: The Dark Side of the Reformation, by Joseph Farah (October 11, 2017). This article tells the truth about Jewish persecution by Luther and Calvin, but fails to point out that the true New Testament Churches and Christians (who believed in separation of church and state, believer's baptism, etc.) were also persecuted by Protestants who, like their harlot mother, believed in union of church and state. The article still indicates that these persecutors were carrying out the mission of God – Lies! No follower of Christ persecutes others because of their religious beliefs. The theologies of Luther and Calvin were still highly heretical at best. Joseph Farah still teaches that thre First Amendment does not separate church and state, another Catholic and Protestant lie. The First Amendment does not separate God and state, nor does it require the state to operate under God, but it does separate church and state. To understand this, see the writings of Jerald Finney. See, for a good starting point, the short article "Is Separation of Church and State Found in the Constitution?" The Trail of Blood of the Martyrs of Jesus fully explains this matter.
The mixed messages coming from President Trump show that He does not understand the issues and is probably getting advice from competing sources.
Article: Trump Rescues The Palestinians…Again (112817)(Anti-Israel)
(Article): Jerusalem Is About To Become A Cup Of Trembling As Trump Considers Historic Move (120117)(President Trump's move, if it happens, will be pro-Israel)
U.S., Israel, Saudis working 'hand in hand' on new peace deal (121117)(A much-overlooked motive for President Trump's historic recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital is to jump-start the Middle East peace process, and do it on terms more favorable to Israel, experts on the Middle East tell WND.)
President Trump is being surrounded by neo-Calvinists, Charismatic "Christians," Jesuits, Catholicism, etc. The Trail of Blood of the Martyrs of Jesus explains what is going on. All these "Christian" groups are seeking to pave the way for the Anti-Christ. They are deceived. Almost all of their Bible doctrines, including their doctrines of salvation and eschatology, are either wrong or perverted. They interpret, spiritualize and allegorize much of the Bible. Their misinterpretation of end time prophecy sets the stage for the coming of the Anti-Christ. Here are links to some articles which demonstrate what is going on:
(6) Trump White House Celebrates 50 Years of Kenneth Copeland's Ministry (122717)
(5) Trump Refers To Roman Whore Jorge Bergoglio As "His Holiness" May, 29, 2017
(4) President Trump appointed Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education. She is a neo-Calvinist who is influenced by neo-Calvinist Abraham Kuyper. (Wickipedia article on DeVos at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betsy_DeVos).
(3) The wife of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Callista Gingrich, is going to be announced as the next ambassador to the Vatican, potentially this week: http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/14/politics/callista-gingrich-vatican-ambassador/. Wickipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callista_Gingrich.
(2) Trump's Jesuit/Catholic transition team responsible for making cabinet appointments and policy decisions: https://www.reddit.com/r/RomeRules/comments/5eiqsm/trumps_jesuitcatholic_transition_team_responsible/.
Transition Team: (wiki): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_transition_of_Donald_Trump#Transition_team.
Boris Epshteyn @BorisEP Senior Advisor to Trump Pence Presidential Transition. NYC Sports fan. Investment Banker. Attorney.
Mike Pence, self-described "evangelical Catholic" (I was told by reliable sources that Mike Pence left the Catholic Church after a nationally known pastor explained some things to him about Catholicism.)
Chris Christie, Roman Catholic
Newt Gingrich, Roman Catholic, Council on Foreign Relations
Michael T. Flynn, Roman Catholic
Rudy Giuliani, Roman Catholic, 9/11 coadjutor, alleged Knight of Malta
Jared Kushner, fan of the Count of Monte Cristo ("Count of the Mount of Christ;"
story about the Jesuit General getting revenge on all of the Order's enemies during its suppression)
Steve Bannon, chief strategist and Senior Counselor for the Presidency of Donald Trump,
former executive chair of Breitbart News, Jesuit-trained from Georgetown
Lou Barletta, Roman Catholic
Chris Collins, Roman Catholic
Tom Marino, Roman Catholic
Devin Nunes, Roman Catholic
Anthony Scaramucci, Roman Catholic, Council on Foreign Relations
Eric Trump, Jesuit-trained from Georgetown and serves as board member of Georgetown's
Business, Society, and Public Policy Initiative
Ivanka Trump, attended Jesuit Georgetown for two years
David Malpass, Jesuit-trained from Georgetown, Vice President of the Council for National Policy,
leading appointment selections for positions involving economic issues
Keith Kellogg, trained by Jesuit at Santa Clara University, leading appointment selections for
positions involving national defense issues
Michael Catanzaro, trained by Jesuits at Fordham University and St. Ignatius High School,
leading the policy implementation team for energy independence
Andrew Bremberg, graduate of Catholic University of America Executive Legal Action Lead
James Carafano, Jesuit-trained from Georgetown University , reported to be the primary aide
to the State Department of Trump administration transition team
Ed Feulner, Roman Catholic former President and founder of Heritage Foundation;
Jesuit-trained from Regis and Georgetown Universities
Ken Blackwell, Jesuit-trained from Xavier University, leading appointment selections for positions involving domestic issues.
Boris Epshteyn, Trump's foremost spokesman; Jesuit-trained from Georgetown.
Rex Tillerson, Secretary of State. He is a Congregationalist who holds a membership in the National Association of Congregational Christian Churches, a mainline Reformed denomination.[120][121] He and his wife donated between $5,000 and $10,000 to the denomination's The Congregationalist Magazine in 2012.[122][123] (Wikipedia). Tillerson is anti-Israel, in line with Catholic/Reformed Theology. See. e.g., Danger Signs For Israel Coming From Parts Of Trump Administration; Tillerson State Dept. Demanding Israel Hand Back Millions in U.S. Military Aid; State Department Waging "Open War" On White House (September 18, 2017); google "Rex Tillerson" for more; to understand the preeminent importance of a nation standing with the nation Israel, see The Biblical Doctrine of Government.
Good sign: President Trump replaces Tillerson. 10 Big Changes To Expect With Pompeo At State (032218).
Yael Lampert. In June, Tillerson appointed Yael Lempert as the Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Egypt and the Maghreb. She's a leader in the war against Israel; she's pro-Palestinian; she's poisoning the atmosphere and a radical leftist. See, e.g., Why Did Trump Keep Obama's Senior Israel Adviser? Depends Who You're Asking.
(1) I do not agree with, nor have I researched everything in the following articles, but these articles are very revealing: Meet the evangelicals who prophesied a Trump win; Sonny Perdue Becomes the 9th Evangelical to Join the Trump Cabinet; President-Elect Trump Just Added Another Evangelical to his Cabinet; These Are the Evangelical Leaders Advancing Donald Trump's Cause; Mega-Christian Leaders Having Private Meeting With Donald Trump; The Election and the Pentecostals/Charismatics; Trump's Troublesome Ties to Evangelicals; An Invitation to Donald Trump's Evangelical Executive Advisory Board with Tony Suárez; Donald Trump: How Evangelicals Helped Him Win | Time.com; for more articles and information, google, e.g.: "Charismatic Evangelicals and Donald Trump," "The Election and the Pentecostals/Charismatics; Trump's Troublesome Ties to Evangelicals," etc.
Articles which express concern over this matter include: Could Trump Be the Next Constantine (by Dr. Greg Dixon); Conservative evangelicals think Donald Trump is the next Constantine; Is Trump the New Constantine?; DONALD 'CONSTANTINE' TRUMP? Could Heaven be intervening directly in the election? (This is a pro-Catholic piece of propaganda – see the book below for explanation of Catholic persecution of dissenters, etc.); Note. The Catholic Church developed the theology that was used to persecute those labeled as "heretics." The state, under the control of the Catholic Church in the middle ages, tortured and ruthlessly murdered 50 million plus "heretics." Established Protestant churches adopted the Catholic church-state theology and continued the persecutions. Catholicism will do it again if they gain control because, unknown to the average Catholic, their theology has not changed. History proves that all such church/state establishments have corrupted the church, the state, and the people.
The Trail of Blood of the Martyrs of Jesus by author and attorney Jerald Finney was released January 17, 2017. The book chronicles the true Christian history of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. It exposes revisionist history, both Christian and Secular. Finally, it publicly indicts past, present, and future Christian Revisionists for murder and/or conspiracy to commit murder. The undeniable and easily verifiable facts in the book give insight into why secularists believe that Christianity is more dangerous than Islam. Those facts also reveal why everyone should be thankful to true Christians who stood against vicious persecution by established "churches." In spite of horrible persecution by established religion/states, they stood against false religion and union of church and state. The persecutions began with the first church and continued, in America, until the adoption of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. The First Amendment was the culmination of the spiritual battle true Christians had fought for 1800 years.
Quote from Dr. Greg Dixon's upcoming book: "As I write this book a new U.S. president goes about the business of organizing his government. Like George Bush Jr., several presidents before him, he allies himself with the institutional corporate churches of America, surrounding himself with "great" men and women leaders from every denomination and every faith group. And, he drives yet another nail into the corporate churches' coffin. He implements a strategy that on the surface appears to restore the churches' right to preach freely on all matters that previously were forbidden by the IRS. He creates a false sense of security. But like Casey at the bat, the churches will find out that there will be no home run – no escape from Caesar's control over the corporate churches. They are controlled by money, largely tax money, not the presence or absence of rights."
The author began his search for the true history of the First Amendment in the 1980s. Since he was a believer, he read numerous books recommended by Christian media which allegedly explained "separation of church and state" and the history of the First Amendment. He found that all those sources left out history between the arrival of the Anglicans in Jamestown and the Puritans and Pilgrims in Massachusetts in the early 1600s and the ratification of the Constitution and the First Amendment in 1788 and 1791. They, for example, stated facts from early colonial history and jumped to the First Amendment without any significant recitation and analysis of the history between those events; stated a fact and then a conclusion without any real evidence to support their conclusion; stated some facts which he found to be false, etc. They stated, for example,
- "The Pilgrims and Puritans came to America for religious freedom and because of that we have our form of government.
- "The Pilgrims compacted with God in the Mayflower Compact and that was the foundation for America's compact with God.
- "America owes her form of government to John Calvin more than any other person.
- "Separation of church and state is not found in the Constitution.
- "America is the second Israel."
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Part 8 out of 8
saved his life?"
"A little patience, please, Mr. Governor; let Philip tell his own
story. If I try to do it, I shall only cry--and we have had tears
enough lately, in this house."
Further consultation being thus deferred, I went upstairs to
the Minister's room.
He was sitting by the window, in his favorite armchair, absorbed
in knitting! The person who attended on him, a good-natured,
patient fellow, had been a sailor in his younger days, and had
taught Mr. Gracedieu how to use the needles. "You see it amuses
him," the man said, kindly. "Don't notice his mistakes, he thinks
there isn't such another in the world for knitting as himself.
You can see, sir, how he sticks to it." He was so absorbed over
his employment that I had to speak to him twice, before I could
induce him to look at me. The utter ruin of his intellect did not
appear to have exercised any disastrous influence over his bodily
health. On the contrary, he had grown fatter since I had last
seen him; his complexion had lost the pallor that I remembered--
there was color in his cheeks.
"Don't you remember your old friend?" I said. He smiled, and
nodded, and repeated the words:
"Yes, yes, my old friend." It was only too plain that he had not
the least recollection of me. "His memory is gone," the man said.
"When he puts away his knitting, at night, I have to find it for
him in the morning. But, there! he's happy--enjoys his victuals,
likes sitting out in the garden and watching the birds. There's
been a deal of trouble in the family, sir; and it has all passed
over him like a wet sponge over a slate." The old sailor was
right. If that wreck of a man had been capable of feeling and
thinking, his daughter's disgrace would have broken his heart.
In a world of sin and sorrow, is peaceable imbecility always
to be pitied? I have known men who would have answered, without
hesitation: "It is to be envied." And where (some persons might
say) was the poor Minister's reward for the act of mercy which
had saved Eunice in her infancy? Where it ought to be! A man who
worthily performs a good action finds his reward in the action
At breakfast, on the next day, the talk touched on those passages
in Helena's diary, which had been produced in court as evidence
against her.
I expressed a wish to see what revelation of a depraved nature
the entries in the diary might present; and my curiosity was
gratified. At a fitter time, I may find an opportunity of
alluding to the impression produced on me by the diary. In
the meanwhile, the event of Philip's return claims notice in
the first place.
The poor fellow was so glad to see me that he shook hands as
heartily as if we had known each other from the time when he was
a boy.
"Do you remember how kindly you spoke to me when I called on you
in London?" he asked. "If I have repeated those words once--but
perhaps you don't remember them? You said: 'If I was as young as
you are, I should not despair.' Well! I have said that to myself
over and over again, for a hundred times at least. Eunice will
listen to you, sir, when she will listen to nobody else. This
is the first happy moment I have had for weeks past."
I suppose I must have looked glad to hear that. Anyway, Philip
shook hands with me again.
Miss Jillgall was present. The gentle-hearted old maid was so
touched by our meeting that she abandoned herself to the genial
impulse of the moment, and gave Philip a kiss. The outraged
claims of propriety instantly seized on her. She blushed as if
the long-lost days of her girlhood had been found again, and ran
out of the room.
"Now, Mr. Philip," I said, "I have been waiting, at Miss
Jillgall's suggestion, to get my information from you. There is
something wrong between Eunice and yourself. What is it? And who
is to blame?"
"Her vile sister is to blame," he answered. "That reptile was
determined to sting us. And she has done it!" he cried, starting
to his feet, and walking up and down the room, urged into action
by his own unendurable sense of wrong. "I say, she has done it,
after Eunice has saved me--done it, when Eunice was ready to be
my wife."
"How has she done it?"
Between grief and indignation his reply was involved in
a confusion of vehemently-spoken words, which I shall not attempt
to reproduce. Eunice had reminded him that her sister had been
publicly convicted of an infamous crime, and publicly punished
for it by imprisonment. "If I consent to marry you," she said,
"I stain you with my disgrace; that shall never be." With this
resolution, she had left him. "I have tried to convince her,"
Philip said, "that she will not be associated with her sister's
disgrace when she bears my name; I have promised to take her
far away from England, among people who have never even heard of
her sister. Miss Jillgall has used her influence to help me. All
in vain! There is no hope for us but in you. I am not thinking
selfishly only of myself. She tries to conceal it--but, oh, she
is broken-hearted! Ask the farmer's wife, if you don't believe
me. Judge for yourself, sir. Go--for God's sake, go to the farm."
I made him sit down and compose himself.
"You may depend on my going to the farm," I answered. "I shall
write to Eunice to-day, and follow my letter to-morrow." He tried
to thank me; but I would not allow it. "Before I consent to
accept the expression of your gratitude," I said, "I must know
a little more of you than I know now. This is only the second
occasion on which we have met. Let us look back a little, Mr.
Philip Dunboyne. You were Eunice's affianced husband; and you
broke faith with her. That was a rascally action. How do you
defend it?"
His head sank. "I am ashamed to defend it," he answered.
I pressed him without mercy. "You own yourself," I said, "that
it was a rascally action?"
"Use stronger language against me, even than that, sir--I deserve
"In plain words," I went on, "you can find no excuse for
your conduct?"
"In the past time," he said, "I might have found excuses."
"But you can't find them now?"
"I must not even look for them now."
"Why not?"
"I owe it to Eunice to leave my conduct at its worst; with
nothing said--by me--to defend it."
"What has Eunice done to have such a claim on you as that?"
"Eunice has forgiven me."
It was gratefully and delicately said. Ought I to have allowed
this circumstance to weigh with me? I ask, in return, had _I_
never committed any faults? As a fellow-mortal and fellow-sinner,
had I any right to harden my heart against an expression of
penitence which I felt to be sincere in its motive?
But I was bound to think of Eunice. I did think of her, before
I ventured to accept the position--the critical position, as
I shall presently show--of Philip's friend.
After more than an hour of questions put without reserve, and
of answers given without prevarication, I had traveled over
the whole ground laid out by the narratives which appear in
these pages, and had arrived at my conclusion--so far as Philip
Dunboyne was concerned.
I found him to be a man with nothing absolutely wicked in
him--but with a nature so perilously weak, in many respects,
that it might drift into wickedness unless a stronger nature
was at hand to bold it back. Married to a wife without force
of character, the probabilities would point to him as likely
to yield to examples which might make him a bad husband. Married
to a wife with a will of her own, and with true love to sustain
her--a wife who would know when to take the command and how
to take the command--a wife who, finding him tempted to commit
actions unworthy of his better self, would be far-sighted enough
to perceive that her husband's sense of honor might sometimes
lose its balance, without being on that account hopelessly
depraved--then, and, in these cases only, the probabilities would
point to Philip as a man likely to be the better and the happier
for his situation, when the bonds of wedlock had got him.
But the serious question was not answered yet.
Could I feel justified in placing Eunice in the position toward
Philip which I have just endeavored to describe? I dared not
allow my mind to dwell on the generosity which had so nobly
pardoned him, or on the force of character which had bravely
endured the bitterest disappointment, the cruelest humiliation.
The one consideration which I was bound to face, was the sacred
consideration of her happiness in her life to come.
Leaving Philip, with a few words of sympathy which might help him
to bear his suspense, I went to my room to think.
The time passed--and I could arrive at no positive conclusion.
Either way--with or without Philip--the contemplation of Eunice's
future harassed me with doubt. Even if I had conquered my own
indecision, and had made up my mind to sanction the union of
the two young people, the difficulties that now beset me would
not have been dispersed. Knowing what I alone knew, I could
certainly remove Eunice's one objection to the marriage. In other
words, I had only to relate what had happened on the day when
the Chaplain brought the Minister to the prison, and the obstacle
of their union would be removed. But, without considering Philip,
it was simply out of the question to do this, in mercy to Eunice
herself. What was Helena's disgrace, compared with the infamy
which stained the name of the poor girl's mother! The other
alternative of telling her part of the truth only was before me,
if I could persuade myself to adopt it. I failed to persuade
myself; my morbid anxiety for her welfare made me hesitate again.
Human patience could endure no more. Rashness prevailed
and prudence yielded--I left my decision to be influenced
by the coming interview with Eunice.
The next day I drove to the farm. Philip's entreaties persuaded
me to let him be my companion, on one condition--that he waited
in the carriage while I went into the house.
I had carefully arranged my ideas, and had decided on proceeding
with the greatest caution, before I ventured on saying the
all-important words which, once spoken, were not to be recalled.
The worst of those anxieties, under which the delicate health
of Mr. Gracedieu had broken down, was my anxiety now. Could I
reconcile it to my conscience to permit a man, innocent of all
knowledge of the truth, to marry the daughter of a condemned
murderess, without honestly telling him what he was about to do?
Did I deserve to be pitied? did I deserve to be blamed?--my mind
was still undecided when I entered the house.
She ran to meet me as if she had been my daughter; she kissed me
as if she had been my daughter; she fondly looked up at me as if
she had been my daughter. At the sight of that sweet young face,
so sorrowful, and so patiently enduring sorrow, all my doubts
and hesitations, everything artificial about me with which I had
entered the room, vanished in an instant.
After she had thanked me for coming to see her, I saw her tremble
a little. The uppermost interest in her heart was forcing its way
outward to expression, try as she might to keep it back. "Have
you seen Philip?" she asked. The tone in which she put that
question decided me--I was resolved to let her marry him.
Impulse! Yes, impulse, asserting itself inexcusably in a man at
the end of his life. I ought to have known better than to have
given way. Very likely. But am I the only mortal who ought to
have known better--and did not?
When Eunice asked if I had seen Philip, I owned that he was
outside in the carriage. Before she could reproach me, I went on
with what I had to say: "My child, I know what a sacrifice you
have made; and I should honor your scruples, if you had any
reason for feeling them."
"Any reason for feeling them?" She turned pale as she repeated
the words.
An idea came to me. I rang for the servant, and sent her to
the carriage to tell Philip to come in. "My dear, I am not
putting you to any unfair trial," I assured her; "I am going
to prove that I love you as truly as if you were my own child."
When they were both present, I resolved that they should not
suffer a moment of needless suspense. Standing between them, I
took Eunice's hand, and laid my other hand on Philip's shoulder,
and spoke out plainly.
"I am here to make you both happy," I said. "I can remove
the only obstacle to your marriage, and I mean to do it. But
I must insist on one condition. Give me your promise, Philip,
that you will ask for no explanations, and that you will be
satisfied with the one true statement which is all that I can
offer to you."
He gave me his promise, without an instant's hesitation.
"Philip grants what I ask," I said to Eunice. "Do you grant it,
Her hand turned cold in mine; but she spoke firmly when she said:
I gave her into Philip's care. It was his privilege to console
and support her. It was my duty to say the decisive words:
"Rouse your courage, dear Eunice; you are no more affected by
Helena's disgrace than I am. You are not her sister. Her father
is not your father; her mother was not your mother. I was
present, in the time of your infancy, when Mr. Gracedieu's
fatherly kindness received you as his adopted child. This,
I declare to you both, on my word of honor, is the truth."
How she bore it I am not able to say. My foolish old eyes were
filling with tears. I could just see plainly enough to find
my way to the door, and leave them together.
In my reckless state of mind, I never asked myself if Time would
be my accomplice, and keep the part of the secret which I had not
revealed--or be my enemy, and betray me. The chances, either way,
were perhaps equal. The deed was done.
The marriage was deferred, at Eunice's request, as an expression
of respect to the memory of Philip's father.
When the time of delay had passed, it was arranged that
the wedding ceremony should be held--after due publication
of Banns--at the parish church of the London suburb in which
my house was situated. Miss Jillgall was bridesmaid, and I gave
away the bride. Before we set out for the church, Eunice asked
leave to speak with me for a moment in private.
"Don't think," she said, "that I am forgetting my promise to be
content with what you have told me about myself. I am not so
ungrateful as that. But I do want, before I consent to be
Philip's wife, to feel sure that I am not quite unworthy of him.
Is it because I am of mean birth that you told me I was Mr.
Gracedieu's adopted child--and told me no more?"
I could honestly satisfy her, so far. "Certainly not!" I said.
She put her arms round my neck. "Do you say that," she asked,
"to make my mind easy? or do you say it on your word of honor?"
"On my word of honor."
We arrived at the church. Let Miss Jillgall describe
the marriage, in her own inimitable way.
"No wedding breakfast, when you don't want to eat it. No wedding
speeches, when nobody wants to make them, and nobody wants to
hear them. And no false sentiment, shedding tears and reddening
noses, on the happiest day in the whole year. A model marriage!
I could desire nothing better, if I had any prospect of being
a bride myself."
They went away for their honeymoon to a quiet place by
the seaside, not very far from the town in which Eunice had
passed some of the happiest and the wretchedest days in her life.
She persisted in thinking it possible that Mr. Gracedieu might
recover the use of his faculties, at the last, and might wish
to see her on his death-bed. "His adopted daughter," she gently
reminded me, "is his only daughter now." The doctor shook
his head when I told him what Eunice had said to me--and,
the sad truth must be told, the doctor was right.
Miss Jillgall returned, on the wedding-day, to take care of
the good man who had befriended her in her hour of need.
Before the end of the week, I heard from her, and was
disagreeably reminded of an incident which we had both forgotten,
absorbed as we were in other and greater interests, at the time.
Mrs. Tenbruggen had again appeared on the scene! She had written
to Miss Jillgall, from Paris, to say that she had heard of old
Mr. Dunboyne's death, and that she wished to have the letter
returned, which she had left for delivery to Philip's father
on the day when Philip and Eunice were married. I had my own
suspicions of what that letter might contain; and I regretted
that Miss Jillgall had sent it back without first waiting to
consult me. My misgivings, thus excited, were increased by more
news of no very welcome kind. Mrs. Tenbruggen had decided on
returning to her professional pursuits in England. Massage,
now the fashion everywhere, had put money into her pocket among
the foreigners; and her husband, finding that she persisted in
keeping out of his reach, had consented to a compromise. He was
ready to submit to a judicial separation; in consideration of
a little income which his wife had consented to settle on him,
under the advice of her lawyer.
Some days later, I received a delightful letter from Philip and
Eunice; reminding me that I had engaged to pay them a visit at
the seaside. My room was ready for me, and I was left to choose
my own day. I had just begun to write my reply, gladly accepting
the invitation, when an ominous circumstance occurred. My servant
announced "a lady"; and I found myself face to face with--Mrs.
She was as cheerful as ever, and as eminently agreeable as ever.
"I have heard it all from Selina," she said. "Philip's marriage
to Eunice (I shall go and congratulate them, of course), and
the catastrophe (how dramatic!) of Helena Gracedieu. I warned.
Selina that Miss Helena would end badly. To tell the truth, she
frightened me. I don't deny that I am a mischievous woman when
I find myself affronted, quite capable of taking my revenge in my
own small spiteful way. But poison and murder--ah, the frightful
subject! let us drop it, and talk of something that doesn't make
my hair (it's really my own hair) stand on end. Has Selina told
you that I have got rid of my charming husband, on easy pecuniary
terms? Oh, you know that? Very well. I will tell you something
that you don't know. Mr. Governor, I have found you out."
"May I venture to ask how?"
"When I guessed which was which of those two girls," she
answered, "and guessed wrong, you deliberately encouraged
the mistake. Very clever, but you overdid it. From that moment,
though I kept it to myself, I began to fear I might be wrong.
Do you remember Low Lanes, my dear sir? A charming old church.
I have had another consultation with my lawyer. His questions
led me into mentioning how it happened that I heard of Low Lanes.
After looking again at his memorandum of the birth advertised
in the newspaper without naming the place--he proposed trying
the church register at Low Lanes. Need I tell you the result?
I know, as well as you do, that Philip has married the adopted
child. He has had a mother-in-law who was hanged, and, what
is more, he has the honor, through his late father, of being
otherwise connected with the murderess by marriage--as his aunt!"
Bewilderment and dismay deprived me of my presence of mind.
"How did you discover that?" I was foolish enough to ask.
"Do you remember when I brought the baby to the prison?" she
said. "The father--as I mentioned at the time--had been a dear
and valued friend of mine. No person could be better qualified
to tell me who had married his wife's sister. If that lady had
been living, I should never have been troubled with the charge
of the child. Any more questions?"
"Only one. Is Philip to hear of this?"
"Oh, for shame! I don't deny that Philip insulted me grossly,
in one way; and that Philip's late father insulted me grossly,
in another way. But Mamma Tenbruggen is a Christian. She returns
good for evil, and wouldn't for the world disturb the connubial
felicity of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Dunboyne."
The moment the woman was out of my house, I sent a telegram to
Philip to say that he might expect to see me that night. I caught
the last train in the evening; and I sat down to supper with
those two harmless young creatures, knowing I must prepare
the husband for what threatened them, and weakly deferring it,
when I found myself in their presence, until the next day. Eunice
was, in some degree, answerable for this hesitation on my part.
No one could look at her husband, and fail to see that he was
a supremely happy man. But I detected signs of care in the wife's
Before breakfast the next morning I was out on the beach, trying
to decide how the inevitable disclosure might be made. Eunice
joined me. Now, when we were alone, I asked if she was really
and completely happy. Quietly and sadly she answered: "Not yet."
I hardly knew what to say. My face must have expressed
disappointment and surprise.
"I shall never be quite happy," she resumed, "till I know what
it is that you kept from me on that memorable day. I don't like
having a secret from my husband--though it is not _my_ secret."
"Remember your promise," I said
"I don't forget it," she answered. "I can only wish that
my promise would keep back the thoughts that come to me in
spite of myself."
"What thoughts?"
"There is something, as I fear, in the story of my parents which
you are afraid to confide to me. Why did Mr. Gracedieu allow me
to believe and leave everybody to believe, that I was his own
"My dear, I relieved your mind of those doubts on the morning
of your marriage."
"No. I was only thinking of myself at that time. My mother--
the doubt of _her_ is the doubt that torments me now."
"What do you mean?"
She put her arm in mine, and held by it with both hands.
"The mock-mother!" she whispered. "Do you remember that dreadful
Vision, that horrid whispering temptation in the dead of night?
_Was_ it a mock-mother? Oh, pity me! I don't know who my mother
was. One horrid thought about her is a burden on my mind. If she
was a good woman, you who love me would surely have made me happy
by speaking of her?"
Those words decided me at last. Could she suffer more than she
had suffered already, if I trusted her with the truth? I ran
the risk. There was a time of silence that filled me with terror.
The interval passed. She took my hand, and put it to her heart.
"Does it beat as if I was frightened?" she asked.
No! It was beating calmly.
"Does it relieve your anxiety?"
It told me that I had not surprised her. That unforgotten Vision
of the night had prepared her for the worst, after the time when
I had told her that she was an adopted child. "I know," I said,
"that those whispered temptations overpowered you again, when
you and Helena met on the stairs, and you forbade her to enter
Philip's room. And I know that love had conquered once more, when
you were next seen sitting by Philip's bedside. Tell me--have you
any misgivings now? Is there fear in your heart of the return
of that tempting spirit in you, in the time to come?"
"Not while Philip lives!"
There, where her love was--there her safety was. And she knew it!
She suddenly left me. I asked where she was going.
"To tell Philip," was the reply.
She was waiting for me at the door, when I followed her to
the house.
"Is it done?" I said.
"It is done," she answered.
"What did he say?"
"He said: 'My darling, if I could be fonder of you than ever,
I should be fonder of you now.'"
I have been blamed for being too ready to confide to Philip
the precious trust of Eunice's happiness. If that reply does
not justify me, where is justification to be found?
Later in the day, Mrs. Tenbruggen arrived to offer her
congratulations. She asked for a few minutes with Philip alone.
As a cat elaborates her preparations for killing a mouse, so
the human cat elaborated her preparations for killing Philip's
happiness, he remained uninjured by her teeth and her claws.
"Somebody," she said, "has told you of it already?" And Philip
answered: "Yes; my wife."
For some months longer, Mr. Gracedieu lingered. One morning, he
said to Eunice: "I want to teach you to knit. Sit by me, and see
me do it." His hands fell softly on his lap; his head sank little
by little on her shoulder. She could just hear him whisper: "How
pleasant it is to sleep!" Never was Death's dreadful work more
gently done
Our married pair live now on the paternal estate in Ireland; and
Miss Jillgall reigns queen of domestic affairs. I am still strong
enough to pass my autumn holidays in that pleasant house.
At times, my memory reverts to Helena Gracedieu, and to what
I discovered when I had seen her diary.
How little I knew of that terrible creature when I first met with
her, and fancied that she had inherited her mother's character!
It was weak indeed to compare the mean vices of Mrs. Gracedieu
with the diabolical depravity of her daughter. Here the doctrine
of hereditary transmission of moral qualities must own that it
has overlooked the fertility (for growth of good and for growth
of evil equally) which is inherent in human nature. There are
virtues that exalt us, and vices that degrade us, whose
mysterious origin is, not in our parents, but in ourselves. When
I think of Helena, I ask myself, where is the trace which reveals
that the first murder in the world was the product of inherited
The criminal left the prison, on the expiration of her sentence,
so secretly that it was impossible to trace her. Some months
later, Miss Jillgall received an illustrated newspaper published
in the United States. She showed me one of the portraits in it.
"Do you recognize the illustrious original?" she asked, with
indignant emphasis on the last two words. I recognized Helena.
"Now read her new title," Miss Jillgall continued.
I read: "The Reverend Miss Gracedieu."
The biographical notice followed. Here is an extract: "This
eminent lady, the victim of a shocking miscarriage of justice
in England, is now the distinguished leader of a new community
in the United States. We hail in her the great intellect which
asserts the superiority of woman over man. In the first French
Revolution, the attempt made by men to found a rational religion
met with only temporary success. It was reserved for the mightier
spirit of woman to lay the foundations more firmly, and to
dedicate one of the noblest edifices in this city to the Worship
of Pure Reason. Readers who wish for further information will
do well to provide themselves with the Reverend Miss Gracedieu's
Orations--the tenth edition of which is advertised in our
"I once asked you," Miss Jillgall reminded me, "what Helena would
do when she came out of prison, and you said she would do very
well. Oh, Mr. Governor, Solomon was nothing to You!"


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A funeral for two Palestinians aired live on the Palestinian government's official news agency involved a speaker calling for the extermination of the Jewish people.
In remarks captured by Palestinian Media Watch, an unidentified man at the funeral says:
"[Allah,] do justice to the oppressed against the oppressors, and give them victory over the tyrants, O Master of the Universe. Strike the Jews, count them and kill them to the last one, and don't leave even one."
The funeral was being held for Laith Mansarah and Abu Al-Aish, two Palestinian terrorists who attacked Israeli soldiers on Nov. 16 when they were in the process of destroying the home of one of their fellow jihadis.
The home of deceased Palestinian terrorist Muhammad Abu Shaheen was scheduled for demolition after he murdered an Israeli citizen in June.
The Israeli Army reported that the two jihadis fired upon Israeli soldiers when the IDF struck back and neutralized the Palestinians.
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Georgia, One of Only Three Holdouts, Considers Ending a Ban on Alcohol Sales
ATLANTA—Georgia could soon allow the sale of alcohol on Sundays, ending a once-common ban that for many Americans now seems as quaint as a backyard still.
Supermarkets and other opponents have tried for years to change the law in Georgia, one of three states that still prohibits Sunday alcohol sales, a restriction imposed across the U.S. after the repeal of Prohibition.
More recently, a coalition of Christian groups, conservative politicians and small liquor store owners have managed to keep Sundays dry.
But a state budget shortfall of as much as $2 billion this year, a lingering hangover from the recession, has persuaded leaders in the Republican-dominated state Senate to seek new revenues, including a seventh-day boost from the so-called sin tax levied on liquor, wine and beer sales.
As of last February, Georgia taxed spirits at the rate of $3.79 a gallon, table wine at $1.51 a gallon and beer at $1.01 a gallon, according to the nonpartisan Tax Foundation in Washington.
Lawmakers submitted a bill this week to grant cities and counties the authority to hold local votes to allow Sunday sales. Georgia's new governor, Republican Nathan Deal, said he wouldn't veto the legislation, a break from the position of former Gov. Sonny Perdue, his predecessor.
Several states in the last decade have lifted or modified bans on Sunday alcohol sales. Along with Georgia, only Indiana and Connecticut have such laws on all forms of alcohol, with bills now introduced in all three states to end the prohibition.
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Since 2002, 14 states have loosened restrictions on Sunday spirits sales.
- 2002: Oregon
- 2003: Delaware, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania
- 2004: Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, New York (expanded), Ohio, Rhode Island, Virginia
- 2005: Washington
- 2007: Washington (expanded)
- 2008: Colorado, New York (expanded), Virginia (expanded)
- 2009: Arkansas, Washington (expanded)
Source: Distilled Spirits Council of the U.S.
Although Sunday sales have long pitted alcohol vendors against religious teetotalers, the fight in recent decades has been between large grocery and convenience store chains on one side, and family-owned liquor stores on the other.
Chain stores, already open on Sunday, are looking to boost sales. Small liquor stores would have to pay for Sunday staffing, electricity and other costs to compete.
Opponents argue they would not benefit much from lifting the ban. "It will just take existing sales and reallocate them over seven days," said Jeff Walsh, president of Habersham Beverage Warehouse, a family-owned liquor store in Savannah.
Mr. Walsh, 56 years old, said that when Sunday sales were permitted in Michigan, where his parents owned liquor stores, it only meant more working hours and little extra revenue. He added that he was resigned to the Georgia ban being lifted, because legislators believe it will bring in extra tax revenue.
"Any plausible idea to plug that revenue hole will be considered," he said.
Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers, a co-sponsor of the bill, said he expected it to pass this year. He called the ban "un-American," and said he supported letting people decide in their own communities whether to lift the ban. "Adults ought to be able to make this decision," he said.
Most Christian groups remain opposed to allowing the sale of alcohol on Sundays. Ray Newman, a lobbyist for the Georgia Baptist Convention, which represents 3,600 churches across the state, said he would argue against any expansion of alcohol sales, especially on "the Lord's day." But with Mr. Perdue out of office, he said, he expected the Sunday sales bill to pass.
Groups who support the lifting of the ban argue that Sunday sales would increase tax revenue. "It's a couple million bucks—when every governor is looking for that without raising taxes," said Frank Coleman of the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States, a group pushing Sunday sales.
If the bill becomes law, it is unknown how many communities would vote to lift the Sunday restriction, making it impossible for lawmakers to predict how much new revenue the change would generate.


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Egyptian authorities arrested five Coptic Christian children after a Muslim mob accused them of blasphemy. The mob was upset they appeared in a video that allegedly "mocked" Islam, but really only made fun of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), which is determined to wipe Christianity, Judaism, and non-compliant Muslims off the Earth.
The police had arrested the Coptic teacher and held him for four days, but the mob nonetheless demanded more punishment, descending upon the homes of the children and "threw rocks at the homes of the youth in a bid to force their parents" to surrender the kids.
"The case of the five arrested in Minya and charged with blasphemy represents yet another case of how Egypt continues to bend to the weight of extremist ideology," explained Todd Daniels, the Middle East regional manager for International Christian Concern. "A video – not even shared publicly – that mocked ISIS, a group that openly beheaded twenty Egyptian citizens, has already put these five in prison and may lead to lengthy prison sentences. Despite progress in terms of rhetoric from [Egyptian] President [Abdel Fattah el-Sisi], Egypt has pervasive persecution that continues to occur not only on the societal level but also in the judiciary."
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi is the first leader to attend Christmas Eve Mass and visit St. Mark's Cathedral in Cairo.
"It's important for the world to see this scene, which reflects true Egyptian unity, and to confirm that we're all Egyptians, first and foremost," he claimed at the time. "We truly love each other without discrimination, because this is the Egyptian truth."
However, blasphemy laws in Egypt still exist. Article 98 states the punishment:
Confinement for a period of not less than six months and not exceeding five years, or a fine of not less than five hundred pounds and not exceeding one thousands pounds shall be the penalty inflicted on whoever make use of religion in propagating, either by words, in writing, or in any other means, extreme ideas for the purpose of inciting strife, ridiculing or insulting a heavenly religion or a sect following it, or damaging national unity.
Egyptian officials jailed two Coptic boys, aged 9 and 10, for allegedly ruining a Koran in October 2012. A video from April 2013 showed police officers standing and watching an attack on Coptics, who were at their church to mourn other Coptics killed by radical Muslims. Assailants attacked the El-Amir Tadros Coptic Church on August 14, 2013, which left it completely destroyed. In April 2014, a mob of radical Islamists dragged a young Coptic women out of car and proceeded to beat and stab her to death. There are so many more stories about the horrific treatment Coptics endured under the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) is targeting the Coptics as well, which means a united front between Christians and Muslims is important. In February, the terrorist group marched 21 Coptics to the beaches of Libya and beheaded them. The brutal act only brought the two sides closer in Egypt.
A group of Muslims did join a project to build a new Coptic Christian church just north of Cairo. Coptic Orthodox Bishop Benyamin started a fund to build a church dedicated to the Virgin Mary. He asked his parishioners to reach people near and far to donate towards the church. Islamic leaders in the area heard about the fund and asked Muslims to also donate money.
"Christians have responded by sorrowfully calling out to God, and Muslims have shown love and care towards them," said Ramen Atallah of Bible Society Egypt.


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Although Giuseppe Arcimboldo was extremely famous during his lifetime, he was soon forgotten after his death. We do not know why people ever lost interest in his art. Perhaps he was misunderstood by the generations that followed. The interest to his abstruse and fantastic pictures, of which we only have a very few originals, nowadays, revived only at the end of the 19th century. Apart from the fantastic pictures, he probably painted quite a few more traditional ones. But many of these, too, seem to have disappeared. Giuseppe Arcimboldo was born into the family of a painter for the Milan Cathedral in 1527. Other spellings of his name include Josephus, Joseph or Josepho Arcimboldi or Arcimboldus. It is uncertain which version is the correct one, because the painter used all of them to sign his works. Many art historians agreed to use the variant of Giuseppe Arcimboldo.
c. 1566. Oil on canvas. Private collection, Basle, Switzerland.
1566. Oil on wood. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
c.1570. Oil on wood. Private collection, Vienna, Austria.
1566. Oil on wood. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
c.1566. Oil on canvas. Skoklosters Slott, Balsta, Sweden.
1566. Oil on canvas. Statens Konstsamlingar, Gripsholm Slott, Stockholm, Sweden.
c.1570. Oil on canvas. Private collection, Stockholm, Sweden. Read Note.
1573. Oil on canvas. Louvre, Paris, France.
1573. Oil on canvas. Louvre, Paris, France.
1573. Oil on canvas. Louvre, Paris, France.
1573. Oil on canvas. Louvre, Paris, France.
c.1575. Blue pen-and-wash drawing. Narodni Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.
1578. Oil on canvas. Private collection, Basle, Switzerland. Read Note.
. Oil on wood. Museo Civico Ala Ponzone, Cremona, Italy. Read Note.
1590-1591. Oil on wood. Skoklosters Slott, Balsta, Sweden. Read Note.
c.1591. Oil on wood. Private collection, Paris, France. Read Note.
Arcimboldo by Federico Zeri. NDE Publishing, 2001.
Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1527-1593 (Basic Art Series) by Giuseppe Arcimboldi, Werner Kriegeskorte. TASCHEN America Llc, 1994.
The Portrait of Eccentricity: Arcimboldo and the Mannerist Grotesque by Giancarlo Maiorino. Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, 1991.
Hello, Fruit Face!: The Paintings of Guiseppe Arcimboldo (Adventures in Art) by Claudia Strand. Prestel, 1999.


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