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Swedish food culture in Minnesota
When the American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis, announced a programme on Scandinavian food, Stockholm University was there. Richard Tellström, Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in Meal Science and Guest Lecturer at the Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies (ERG) was one of the presenters, meeting Americans who had vivid memories of Swedish food culture.
Richard Tellström wrote the foreword for "The Nordic Cookbook," a book with recipes and pictures from across Scandinavia written by master chef Magnus Nilsson from Fäviken in Jämtland. The book has captured the imagination of many Americans and the American Swedish Institute arranged a multi-day conference to celebrate Nordic food traditions. Both Magnus Nilsson and Richard Tellström gave presentations, and restaurants and local food producers threw events that attracted the many Swedish-Americans of Minneapolis.
A full house for Swedish food culture
Richard Tellström gave a lecture on Swedish food culture in front of a packed house, with many people excited to discuss their own family traditions. "Lutefisk", in particular, is an important dish in Minnesota, but Richard Tellström explained that Minnesotans probably ate more lutfisk than Swedes these days. He also said that meatballs, which many Americans consider the most Swedish thing ever, would quite possibly not even be on the top-five list of most popular dishes in Sweden.
Recipes from home
The audience was encouraged to bring their traditional recipes with them so the institute could scan and upload them to the archive. "The food culture in Minnesota is like a moment from late-1800s Sweden frozen in time," says Richard Tellström. "It's survived in an older form, not unlike how we preserve our own traditions with the julbord (Christmas dinner)."
Conversations on food research
Richard Tellström also held a round-table discussion with about a dozen local researchers and historians, with representatives from the University of Minnesota and Gustavus Adolfus College, among others. They discussed the possibility of a joint research project that would bring together food traditions with Swedish migration to the United States and today's migration.
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The Rosetta mission is named after the famous Rosetta Stone, used by historians and archeologists to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics. Scientists hope Rosetta, similar to its namesake, will illuminate the language of the universe and improve understanding of Earth's origins as well as those of comets.
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Since Rosetta has reached its target comet, it has already begun to take readings of levels of various compounds on and inside the comet. Most notably, Rosetta has first started to measure H2O levels on C-G. Why H2O? The answer lies in Earth's oceans. The origin of the Earth's oceans has yet to be determined. The sheer amount of water on Earth suggests that the planet was bombarded by comets and asteroids that delivered water when they collided with its surface and early atmosphere. In order to determine where the water came from, Rosetta will analyze at the proportion of deuterium – a hydrogen isotope – in relation to normal hydrogen. Preliminary results show that the D/H ratio is two or three times greater than in Earth's oceans.
"This surprising finding could indicate a diverse origin for the Jupiter-family comets (The family that C-G is in) – perhaps they formed over a wider range of distances in the young Solar System than we previously thought," claims Dr. Kathrin Altwegg, principal investigator on the Rosetta mission. Moreover, previous comets from this family have contained varying Deuterium/Hydrogen (D/H) levels, with only one comet ever showing D/H levels similar to those of the earth's oceans. These findings suggest that asteroids, not comets, were the primary contributors to the formation of our planet's massive oceans.
As Rosetta follows C-G into the inner solar system and observes how the comet changes as it approaches the sun, it will continue to deliver valuable data back to scientists in Germany. Even though its journey is far from over, it has already has a massive impact. The launch of the mission was one of the most ambitious in history for the ESA, requiring years to plan and build. Already, that effort has paid off due to meaningful results that have allowed us to more fully understand our origins and the origins of elements from the natural world. Furthermore, the landing of Philae on C-G demonstrates the feasibility of comet mining in the future by demonstrating that it is feasible to land on fast moving comets with landing probes.

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Key findings of consultation on monitoring noncommunicable diseases released
As part of the development of a comprehensive global monitoring framework for noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), WHO/Europe held a web-based consultation to determine European Member States' capacity to monitor the proposed voluntary targets and global indicators: 40 countries took part. This revealed new information on the surveillance capacity of the 53 Member States in the WHO European Region, as it included results from WHO's 2010 global survey of country capacity for NCD prevention and control.
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The capacity to disaggregate NCD data is rare in the European Region, despite multiple statements (in the qualitative comments) on the importance of indicators to assess inequity and measure social determinants. Only a small minority of Member States claims to have strong capacity for disaggregation.
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The web-based consultation was an intermediate step, aiming to maximize European Member States' input to the global process. The formal consultation with Member States and United Nations agencies, to complete work on the development of the global monitoring framework and targets for NCDs, is planned for 5–7 November 2012, in Geneva, Switzerland.


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Review of the parental conference in Pavlodar region.
16 May, 2015 in celebration of the International Day of the Family at the initiative of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Institute of Family Education of the city of Astana in our region the Department of Education organized and conducted Parental conferences on the subject: "Psychological assistance to parents in the preparation of adolescents to UNT".
It should be noted that this year in our region conferences were held on 20 grounds of the region. Besides the cities of Aksu, Ekibastuz and Pavlodar conferences were organized and held in the regions of the country with the departure of the graduates of the Institute of Family Education to the regions. More than 3000 parents of 11 graders participated in this conference.
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Pavlodar, 2015.
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Большое спасибо организаторам Конференции за предоставленную ценную информацию. Было бы очень хорошо, если б такие мероприятия проводились чаще. Особую благодарность выражаю за то, что с помощью психолога Института Семейного Воспитания я смогла разобраться в давно интересующих меня вопросах. Мама ученика 6 класса, г. Петропавловск
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- Lead arrangers of the conference for parents of first-graders received diplomas from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
- Review of the parental conference in Pavlodar region.
- The Family Education Institute's 4th Anniversary.
- Nearly 97,000 people visited the parental conference.
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Thursday, February 4, 2016
ATF: Upon Shaky Ground
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May they both jump into the fire...ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks for stopping by, my dear Adullamite!!! Feeling adventurous--are we?Delete
This is just the kind of music to open up my soul, and my dogs as well! If I groove with the music so do they! It's like mom this is so cool!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks for stopping by, my dear Karen!!! I had forgotten all about Nilsson's Jump Into the Fire until hearing it again during Goodfellas. It was the same with Donovan's Atlantis. Needless to say, the movie has a killer soundtrack.Delete
Shaking up my soul! Such a song, and such video. Wow.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks for stopping by, my dear Susan!!! Yeah, Fun.'s video is awesome, and the more I reflect upon the lyrics, the more comes out.Delete
- AnonymousFebruary 4, 2016 at 4:11 PM
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Can't say I know either one of these songs. Well I suppose I could say I knew them but that would be a lie so i won't.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks for stopping by, my dear Ann!!! Well, it is a little too late to try to project yourself as being a sensible person, but it is sure cute of you to try. (LOL?)Delete
Not familiar with these songs.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks for stopping by, my dear Stephen!!! I hope they expanded your horizon some.Delete
Jump Into the Fire is an underrated classic! The only songs of his that I ever hear on oldies radio nowadays are Everybody's Talkin' and that blasted Coconut! And this is the man who had such a huge hit with Without You. I still miss him. Hard to believe he's been gone over 20 years.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks for stopping by, my dear Silver Fox!!! Oh yeah, Without You is most definitely on the list to be included in this series, and if I never hear about putting the lime in the coconut again, I will be very happy. Could he have been truly schizophrenic? For how could the same person record both songs (along with Jump Into the Fire, for that matter)?Delete
I'm in total agreement. Never cared for Coconut.Delete
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New abbot of Mt. Athos Grigoriu Monastery enthroned
18. March 2014 - 9:33
On Saturday, March 15, according to Byzantine traditions, the solemn enthronement of the new Abbot of the Mt. Athos Grigoriou Monastery Archimandrite Chrystophoros took place, reports AgionOros with the reference to Romfea.gr.
Abbots and brethren of many Athonite monasteries as well as numerous pilgrims from Greece, Cyprus, Russia, and other Orthodox countries were present at the ceremony. The Greek government was represented by secretary general of the Council of Ministers Panagiotis Baltakos.
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Posted: Jun 19, 2012
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--Brothers Sam and James O'Connor, both oarsmen in the Harvard heavyweight varsity eight, are profiled in the July-August edition of Harvard Magazine.
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Bill would mandate Bible study Bill would mandate Bible study
All public schools would offer elective
By Sarah Palermo / Monitor staff
February 3, 2012
George Washington has a Biblical phrase etched on his tomb. In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote that all rights come not from a government or king but from a "Creator."
These men and the other founding fathers of America were profoundly influenced by the Christian Bible, and in order to understand United States history, students need to read and study it, according to a bill before the House Education Committee yesterday.
"The Holy Bible is the bedrock of Western civilization. Love it or hate it, it's in every aspect of humanity," said sponsor Rep. Jerry Bergevin of Manchester.
Bergevin's bill would require all schools to offer an elective social studies course in Bible studies, where students would examine the Old Testament, the New Testament or both, and learn "biblical content, characters, poetry and narratives that are the prerequisites to understanding contemporary society and culture, including literature, art, music, morals, oratory and public poetry."
Currently, the only state prescription for social studies electives is that students must take a half-credit of world history, geography or global studies to graduate.
Members of the committee and several members of the public spoke against the bill itself and various pieces of it.
Rep. JR Hoell of Dunbarton asked if Bergevin would accept amendments that might make the bill "more amenable to the Constitution." Several speakers said they like the idea of encouraging - not requiring - districts to offer such a course, avoiding the appearance of overstepping the bounds of local control.
"I support having an elective course like this. But I don't understand why we should mandate it at the state level," said Rep. Kathleen Lauer-Rago, a Franklin Republican.
Co-sponsor Rep. Sue DeLemus, a Rochester Republican, said schools need a requirement from the state "so it's safe for all schools to feel comfortable offering this course."
For Garrett Lear, a pastor from Wakefield who testified at the hearing, the issue is bigger than that.
Teaching the importance of the Bible and Christianity on early American politics is more important than teaching the Bible as literature or even trying to preach to students, he said.
"The issue is not trying to teach religion, but to talk about what is the true history of America whether some people like it or not," he said.
Philosophy aside, Dean Michener, director of government affairs for the New Hampshire School Boards Association, asked the committee to think with the state's pocketbook.
In requiring that all schools offer a new course, "the state needs to pay for it," he said.
Claire Ebel, executive director of the New Hampshire Civil Liberties Union, also spoke against what she called "a dreadful little bill."
"First of all, it's a mandate and against the idea of local control. But schools already have the full authority to offer comparative religion courses or to use the Bible as a work of literature in a comparative literature class," Ebel said.
"This is a specific attempt to hold one religion over others and hold a religion over no religion. That's constitutionally prohibited," she said.
Mark Joyce, executive director of the New Hampshire School Administrators Association, agreed.
Schools that choose to design a course around the Bible and exclude the sacred texts of other religions "would be inviting a legal challenge," he said.
When asked whether his goal would be fulfilled by courses in comparative religions, Bergevin emphatically and repeatedly said no.
"It's the foundation of our republic. The Bible. It's as simple as that," he said.
Timothy Chrysostom of Canterbury, who testified at the hearing, said Bergevin's testimony made the bill's true aim clear to him.
"This is a plainly religiously-motivated bill written in such a way to carefully obscure that fact," Chrysostom said. "I do believe it is essential knowledge for students. . . But the history of the Roman Empire is at least as crucial to the history of the country, and that might even be a better mandate. There'd be no constitutional problem there."
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DEL MAR — Councilman Carl Hilliard is back in the saddle as the city continues discussions to potentially buy the Del Mar Fairgrounds.
In January Hilliard voluntarily resigned from two subcommittees that deal with the fairgrounds, including the one focused on the sale, after the District Attorney's Office and Fair Political Practices Commission received complaints — none of them formal, he said — that because he owns and breeds race horses his participation in the proposed purchase presented a possible conflict of interest.
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City Attorney Leslie Devaney said she was unable to identify any conflict based on public records as it pertained to her client, which is the city of Del Mar. However, her ability to delve into the matter "was and is limited given that the city attorney does not serve as independent legal counsel to any one council member," she said.
As a result, Hilliard hired former San Diego District Attorney Paul Pfingst to conduct a "thorough review" of all his financial interests and relationships with the fairgrounds and horse racing to determine if he had any conflicts, Devaney said.
Based on Pfingst's review of Hilliard's business and financial relationships, as well as his required statement of economic interests, Devaney said at the March 7 council meeting she could find no basis "that would lead me to recommend to the city of Del Mar that Mr. Hilliard should recuse himself from any discussions or decisions on the fairground issues that Del Mar is engaged in at present."
"Therefore, the decision whether or not to recuse himself from these discussions is Mr. Hilliard's decision alone," she said.
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Hilliard said he owns or co-owns about a dozen horses in California and Kentucky. He said in the past two years he has entered only one in the Del Mar race and it earned him $400.
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Pharrell will be playing in Cape Town at the Grand Arena, GrandWest on Monday 21 September and in Johannesburg at The Dome on Thursday 24 September.
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Pharrell Williams is a creative force, using music, fashion, and design to express his distinctive style.
From his beginnings as a teenage prodigy and multi-instrumentalist in Virginia Beach back in the early 90s, through enough hits to earn him Billboard's Producer of the Decade in 2010 with over 100 million copies of his productions sold worldwide. Williams has helped create such classics as Daft Punk's Get Lucky, Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines, Nelly's Hot in Here, Jay-Z's I Just Wanna Love U (Give It To Me), Britney Spears's I'm a Slave 4 U and Justin Timberlake's Like I Love You.
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Australia's telecom regulator has responded to criticisms that it is not tough on telcos who do not comply with the Telecommunications Consumer Protection (TCP) code.
The Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN), yesterday issued a statement criticising the Australian Communications Media Authority (ACMA) for not penalising telcos who breach the code. ACCAN voiced the criticism after ACMA released a report saying that the top three telcos are complying with the code.
"The ACMA investigation shows telcos are in breach of the TCP Code on a daily basis," an ACCAN spokesman said. "We are encouraged to see the ACMA investigating these breaches.
However, the regulator's unwillingness to hand down even the most basic available penalty for confirmed breaches has the potential to create a culture of poor compliance."
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However, an ACMA spokesperson today responded that many of the ACCAN wishes for a tougher agency "are not technically possible."
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For its investigation, ACMA looked at 200 complaints for each of the three providers, the agency spokesperson said. Only two problems were found, but they appeared to have resulted from human error rather than any process problem, she said.
"Code compliance remains a priority for the ACMA, and the ACMA will continue to closely monitor compliance across the industry," the agency spokesperson said.
"However, in light of the number and nature of the contraventions found, and the steps which have been taken by the providers in question to improve and ensure compliance, the ACMA has decided not to take enforcement action in this particular case. In no way does this mean that non-compliance is condoned."
In addition, ACCAN criticised ACMA for delays implementing proposals from an inquiry last year on telco customer service and complaint handling.
"Only half of the six reforms coming out of that inquiry have been fully implemented. Some of these overdue reforms include performance reporting and customer service charters, expenditure management tools (due to be implemented from September 1) and overhaul of the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman scheme."
The ACMA spokesperson disagreed, saying that four of the six are finished and work is underway on the other two.
Proposals to improve advertising practices, enhance product disclosure, provide spending management tools and have internal complaints handling were implemented under the TCP code, she said.
A proposal to require performance reporting and customer service metrics is is the subject of discussions between the ACMA and industry, she said.
Finally, changes to the TIO Scheme have been "largely taken up by a review of the TIO Scheme and many of the ideas have come to fruition," she said.
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Godrej Properties was established in 1990 as a real estate development company within the Godrej Group of businesses. The company was originally incorporated as Sea Breeze Constructions and Investments Private Limited on February 8, 1985. The company's name was changed to Godrej Properties and Investments Private Limited on July 2, 1990 and subsequently to Godrej Properties Limited on November 23, 2004. Since 1897, customers have trusted Godrej to deliver innovation and excellence across a broad spectrum of services and products. The promise to deliver value drives the organization at every stage of operation. Firstly, the company evaluates the potential of possible locations and is led by a team of qualified managers. Once a location has been identified as a potential development zone, GPL works with only the foremost architects, contractors, and project managers to bring the project to life. GPL knows that its obligation to its customers and partners does not end upon the completion of a project, and therefore, provides post-project professional and accessible support also. Godrej Properties adheres to a simple philosophy: providing exemplary service based on the optimal use of available resources. The company has completed projects in Mumbai and Pune and is currently developing residential towers such as the Planet Godrej in central Mumbai and the Godrej Woodsman Estate in Bangalore. Godrej Properties intends to leverage its established brand image to deliver property solutions across major Indian metros.


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For the history of the Presbyterian denomination, click here.
Pilgrim Presbyterian Church was formed when two congregations, First Presbyterian Church and Trinity Presbyterian, joined together to build a church on Belvidere Road in 1961.
First Presbyterian Church stood on South Main Street Phillipsburg for 103 years. As the very first congregation in Phillipsburg, formed by 32 people on December 13, 1853, the original name of the congregation was the Phillipsburg Church. In 1903 major improvements were made to the South Main Street Church and its name was changed from the Phillipsburg Church to The First Presbyterian Church.
The first pastor, the Rev. Smith Sturges, was installed in April of 1855. As the local population grew, the church sponsored the formation of three additional church schools, in anticipation of forming additional congregations. By 1873 the church had sponsored three additional church schools with a combined attendance of 547. The Howell Sunday School, later known as the North End Mission, assisted in the building of Trinity Presbyterian Church
Trinity Presbyterian Church began in 1907, when the Rev. James Moore, pastor of Westminster Presbyterian Church, began Sunday afternoon services in the Delaware Park Public School. On June 2, 1918, the new Delaware Park Mission Chapel was dedicated. Under the guidance of the Rev. M.H. Looloian the Trinity Presbyterian Church came into being in November of 1928.
Discussion of a merger between the two congregations occurred from 1955 to 1960. On September 14, 1961, following a vote by both congregations, the Presbytery of Newton approved the merger of the First and Trinity Churches under the new name, Pilgrim Presbyterian Church.


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Given the nature of the space and our limited seating, a cancellation within 48 hours will incur 1/2 price charge of dinner. A no show or cancellation after 12pm day of will incur the full amount of the dinner including a service fee.
Dinner at EsterEv is offered Friday and Saturday, starting promptly at 6:30 p.m.
The ten-course menu is $95 per person, exclusive of tax and gratuity; beverage pairings are available for $50.
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The globally influenced menu changes monthly and will be available on or around the 20th of the prior month.
Interested in the arts from a young age, Linda Thai found a creative outlet in baking and decided to pursue her passion at Milwaukee Area Technical College for Baking and Pastry Arts. There, she honed her classical French technique adding a signature whimsical touch wherever she could.
Upon graduation, Thai joined SURG Restaurant Group under renowned pastry chef Kurt Fogle and learned the ins and outs of pastry development and execution. While at SURG Restaurant Group, Thai met fellow pastry chef Jaceleen Latin-Kasper. The two forged a lasting friendship and together joined the opening team of DanDan, the Chinese-American concept owned by chefs Dan Jacobs and Dan Van Rite, to oversee the pastry program. DanDan's fine dining sister concept, EsterEv, opened in 2016 and Thai joined the team as pastry sous chef under Latin-Kasper's leadership.
In late 2017, Thai was promoted to pastry chef of EsterEv where she currently creates the inventive dessert program for the weekly changing tasting menu. In addition to her work at EsterEv, Thai still holds her position as pastry sous chef at DanDan where she assists in seasonal menu development and day-to-day kitchen operations.
In February 2018, Thai and Latin-Kasper opened Batches, the classic American bakery located across the street from DanDan and EsterEv. As pastry sous chef Thai develops recipes for the sweet and savory baked goods including breakfast pastries, cookies, cakes and house-made candy bars.
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In 313, when the emperor Constantine issued his Edict of Toleration, he started the ball rolling to make Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire. The process was complete in 380, when emperor Theodosius issued Edict of Thessalonica. Christianity had been a persecuted sect that claimed to be a variation of the religion of Israel. It was founded by Jesus of Nazareth who claimed to be the Jewish Messiah. His followers said He had risen from the dead and some even claimed that He was God in the flesh. Now this rather strange little sect had managed in just over three centuries to become the official religion of the Romans. Not only was Christianity the religion of the Romans, but a certain form of Christianity, Catholicism, was the religion of the Romans, and Catholicism came with all the baggage of a God who was three persons, yet one God, and that God had established an organization with bishops, priests and deacons in leadership with a special emphasis on the bishop of Rome, who claimed to be the spiritual and theological heir to saints Peter and Paul.
Things had come a long way since the days of squabbling Israelite sects. The first squabbling followers of Jesus had become the Official Religion of the Romans. They still managed to squabble but now the emperors of Constantinople joined the squabble. The Germanic peoples who overran the western half of the Roman Empire around 425 AD were Christians, just not Catholic Christians. They could not care less about the bishop of Rome and they thought the trinity was nonsense. They were followers of Arius, who believed Jesus was really swell, just not equal to God the Father. When the German barbarians set up their new kingdoms in Spain and France and North Africa, they had a hard time controlling things.
The contentious followers of the Humble Carpenter of Nazareth were not easy to govern. The Germans had invaded the Roman Empire, not to destroy it, but to enjoy it. They liked Roman amenities, like wine and olive oil and white bread and bathing, far better than beer, bacon fat, bugs and barley bread. If the new German aristocracy converted to Catholic Christianity it might make acceptance by the Romans easier, which is precisely what they did. And, when the king was re-baptized Catholic, you had better believe that his court, accepted the religion of the Romans.
In times past, individuals had made a decision that Jesus was the Messiah. Now the decision was made for you, if you were a Roman, or a Visigoth or a Burgundian, or a Frank. In 785 AD Charlemagne, the king of the Franks decreed that, "If any one of the race of the Saxons hereafter concealed among them shall have wished to hide himself unbaptized, and shall have scorned to come to baptism and shall have wished to remain a pagan, let him be punished by death."
Something similar happened in Russia. Prince Vladimir of Kiev went religion shopping and chose Byzantine Christianity because the liturgy was so beautiful and, thankfully, Christianity did not prohibit the drinking of alcohol of which the Russians were, and still are, quite fond. Vladimir was baptized, married the sister of the Roman Byzantine emperor of Constantinople and upon returning to Kiev, marched the entire population down to the Dnieper River, starting with his 12 sons and the boyars (nobles). The wooden idols of the Russians were either burned or and thrown in the river as was the statue of the main Russian god, Perun. In his enthusiasm for Christianity Vladimir even baptized the gods! The Kievan Russians were now Christians, whether they liked it or not.
What a lucky break for the Romans in their shrinking empire! The Roman state, threatened in the west by the Germans and in the east by those Turks and Arabs who were not Christian (There are still many Turkic and Arabic speakers who have retained their Christianity despite a millennium of persecution) suddenly had a boatload of allies. The sect of Christians first became the Religion of the Romans. Now it was the religion of the Roman state as well the Frankish, Gothic, and eventually of the Russian states, as well as many others. Each of them came to think of themselves as uniquely chosen by God to do His will on earth by slaughtering his enemies who, coincidentally, were the enemies of the state.
To serve the interests of the state was to serve God. To refuse to serve the state was to refuse to serve God, and hence both treason and blasphemy. It was never the tradition of the church to burn heretics and blasphemers. It was most certainly the practice of the state to burn traitors. And so the horrors began. Enemies of the state were executed or expelled, and so Jews continued their wandering, first to Spain, and then, when expelled by the non-Christian Almohads around 1150, they fled to France, then from France to the Rhine valley, then to Poland and Russia, always on the edge of the society.
Oddly, the Jews of Italy were the safest Jews in Christendom until the Second World War and the Jewish community of Rome exists to this day. The popes may have said unfortunate things but usually protected the Jews of Italy, as did Pope Pius XII in the Second World War. (C.f. Rabbi David Dahlen: The Myth of Hitler's Pope) The Jews had become the un-chosen people, a stateless nation, once chosen, now rejected.
How does one convince ten or twenty national ethnic groupings that they are each God's new chosen people? Easy! You have a pope! The Papacy managed to hold all these chosen nations and their anointed sovereigns together in a crazy quilt of chosen-ness by cobbling together a super-nation called Christendom. The aggression and arrogance of kings were limited by the threat of excommunication. No one could quite get the upper hand, because "all must kiss the foot of the Roman Pontiff" or so says the Dictatus Papae, published by Pope Gregory VII in 1075. The Dictatus is a list of twenty-seven statements pointing out what sovereigns owed the Pope. In addition to kissing the foot of the pope, the Dictatus said the pope may depose emperors, and that "…he may absolve subjects from their fealty to wicked men." This meant that the pope could dissolve any government in Christendom and release the subordinate of any emperor, king or nobleman from their obligation of obedience to the local authority.
Amazingly, people took all this seriously. It meant that there was some non-violent international control over the avarice and aggression of the upper classes. The system worked, at least until the Reformation in 1525, when certain German and French theologians decided that the papacy was useless. With no pope to threaten excommunication, the monarchs of Europe were free to impose their superior chosen-ness on their neighbors. Europe dissolved into a century of war in which half the population of certain areas perished. Strangely, Europe lost its religion during the wars of religion. To be Protestant, Catholic, or none of the above was no longer a matter of choice. Your religion was a matter of a political unit that was hell bent on proving its superiority to those a little less chosen than itself.
The mayhem started in 1525 when the German theologians reinvented Christianity and dumped the papacy. The Great Peasants' War or Great Peasants' Revolt devastated Central Europe from 1524 to 1525. The peasants decided that, if the priests and aristocrats didn't need popes and bishops, they didn't need the aristocrats and priests. They slaughtered thousands of the German governing class. The governing class who, after all, had the money and the weapons returned the favor by slaughtering perhaps 300,000 of the peasants.
This was just a warm up. A century later, the Thirty Years War, punctuated with bouts of witch burning and cannibalism, killed about a third of the population of large parts of Europe. It started as a religious conflict when the Protestant town council of Prague threw the representatives of the Catholic emperor out a window (This is called the "Defenestration of Prague." You've got to love the name, no?)
It started out Protestant versus Catholic, but by the end Catholic France was allied with protestant Sweden against Catholic Austria. The war spilled over from Germany into France, Holland, England and the Americas.
When it was all over the nation-state was supreme, Christendom was gone and 11 million people were dead. No pope got his foot kissed by any monarch any more. The worship of God faded into the worship of the state. The state was no longer chosen by God. It was just chosen. European Christianity was completely separated from the idea of conversion and started to die. And the Jews? They were not part of any chosen state no matter how hard they pretended.
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Happy Sunday, y'all!
We have been enjoying just a gorgeous spring weekend in Minnesota. I mean, pretty much any spring weekend where it does not snow qualifies as "good," but sunny with temperatures in the 60s/70s? So delightful.
I think we all need to take a moment to give thanks for Amanda because she had the presence of mind to take this photo of Marcus and I last night, when we were out on Our Breaking Passover Adventure. Otherwise we all might have to survive yet another post without any photos.
Look. There we are.
Good times, right?
So, what have I been up to today that has not been worth photographing? Spring cleaning. I cannot usually plan when, specifically, spring cleaning will take place. But, when I was applying my make-up and I noticed how dusty the light fixture in the bathroom was (I don't think it has been wiped down in six years), I knew that today was my lucky day.
Note: This is the point at which I reveal a bunch about our current living conditions, and you get to A) Thank God because your house is cleaner than ours or B) Thank God because you are not alone. Your choice.
So it started with the one problem light fixture and from there it turned into cleaning the kitchen sink, and suddenly I was dusting the entire main floor and casually purging the odd possession. I feel like last year we did a massive purge (medicine cabinet, laundry room shelves, etc.) so this year there is simply less to manage there.
But. BUT! As a result of this ever-casual review of things, I've now started another bag of things to go to the Goodwill. I also have a pile of old electronics that I need to combine with another pile of old electronics so that we can figure out how to appropriately discard them. Please tell me that we are not the only ones whose home is overrun by old laptops/phones/digital cameras/chargers. All of it must go.
Disappointingly, none of the projects I tackled today are things that I can cross off of our 2015 Home Improvement list, but I am hopeful that some of these things will bring us closer to a few of them.


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Summer is here and there are new CUPS locations to celebrate, including the first few shops in Pittsburgh, the South Bay, and one just outside Sacramento! Take a peek at the newest shops that you should totally become a regular at. Jump To: New York | San Francisco | South Bay | Pittsburgh | New Jersey | Connecticut | Sacramento New York Ground Central (FiDi) View … Continue reading New CUPS Cafes: June/July Edition