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Anne Hutchinson, 20 July 1591 – August 1643, was despised for her quick mind, her ability to think on her feet and her willingness to defy university-trained theologians. She was unflinching, though she had a premonition of danger to come. She lived four-fifths of her life in her native England but is world famous for her years in early colonial America. She was a woman of valor. She persuaded scores of families to leave their homes, businesses, the church t -
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After cooking and serving lunch to the asylum seekers, I took care of a baby boy from Central America while his young mother chose new clothes, underwear, and was given hygiene supplies and a towel, and took her first shower in several weeks.
The baby was a merry little soul. At lunch, he'd been chuckling and snorting while his mom tried to spoon orange-colored baby food into his mouth and the spoon nailed his nose instead. (His mom laughed, too, -
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Many people have asked how they can help support the great needs of the men, women, and children who are fleeing government violence, drug gangs, rape, extortion, kidnapping for ransom, climate-caused drought, and grinding poverty in Central America. Here are my suggestions.
Volunteers of all ages, even children, are eager to prepare and serve food to the asylum seekers.
Bilingual volunteers help us "un poquito Esp -
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Blog postHistorically, the date is slightly off. I think the Declaration of Independence was signed on July 2, 1776, after militias were being raised and skirmishes had begun.
But this meme is funny because we've all "been there" when it comes to deadlines.
Happy Independence Day!
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Blog postThis is a collage graphic I made in Photoshop, of five successive generations of Robinson ancestors. They are descended from Rev. John Robinson, the pastor of the (Mayflower) Pilgrims in Leiden, Netherlands, and his son Isaac Robinson, who emigrated to Plymouth Colony in 1631.
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William Riley Robinson, a farmer, was born on November 27, 1791, in Goshen, Connecticut. He married Cynthia Stevens on October 28, 1819, in Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania. They had 19 -
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Recently, I was cruising the internet for images of 17th century ships (as one does). I've been doing this for years, but only in November 2018 discovered this Dutch blog, written in English, that creates models of ships from paintings and drawings of the period.
Why would we 17th century Dyer fans and descendants care particularly about such art? William Dyer was commissioned by the Council of State in England (Oliver Cromwell, Sir Henry -
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Christy K Robinson is author of these books (click a title to go to the Amazon page): We Shall Be Changed (2010) Mary Dyer Illuminated Vol. 1 (2013) Mary Dyer: For Such a Time as This Vol. 2 (2014) The Dyers of London, Boston, & Newport Vol. 3 (2014) Effigy Hunter (2015) Anne Marbury Hutchinson: American Founding Mother(2018)
And of these sites: Discovering Love &nb -
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I don’t speak much Spanish. Never did, even in the two years of high school Spanish class (back in the days when dinosaurs roamed the earth). I could read news articles fairly well, and at one time had at least some vocabulary squirreled away in my brain, but conversation was never my forte. (Wait. “Forte” is Italian. I know lots of Italian terms, some of which are cognate to Spanish, becaus -
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Have you read comments on social media? They're pretty embarrassing for those of us who call ourselves God-followers or "spiritual" people. Some of that verbal abuse is deserved. I don't have to repeat it, because you've seen it and heard it.
There are people who claim to be Christian, but support the separation of children and parents in concentration camps, or call legal asylum seekers "illegal aliens" and demand that -
Blog postBrought to you by the same people who insist on English-only because this is America.
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Blog postA choir score with piano accompaniment: Holy, Holy, Holy
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I don't usually give personal details about age, health matters, or other things that can be harvested by data miners for nefarious purposes. But here's a factoid that I'm a little proud of: 2019 is my golden anniversary of serving as a church worship pianist.
My mom was my first (and best) piano teacher, and she encouraged my love for religious music of all kinds. I played "spe -
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Baby me, on Easter, with my tabby kitten.When I was two or three years old, my tabby cat didn’t come home one day. As a four-year-old, I’d stand in the driveway and call for him to come home. Of course, he never did.
Over the years, our family had several pets that we treated well, fed well, and protected with a fenced yard or taking them out on a leash. They lived long lives with annual checkups and vaccinations. If they sickened with age, we g -
Blog postThis photo of a Honduran child crying as her mother is arrested
won the WorldPress Photo of the Year,
at a ceremony held in Amsterdam on April 11, 2019.
© 2019 Christy K Robinson
In a world filled with terror and cruelty, we are called to be kind, compassionate, merciful, and fair. We help the helpless, we free those in cages, we protect the abused and neglected, we feed the hungry, we comfort the mourning, we reconcile the separated, we provide hospitalit -
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The Ayars/Ayers/Ayer/Eyre/le Heyr ancestors show up in Wiltshire in 1220. The earliest for whom I've seen records was a man who miraculously fought on crusade with King Richard Lionheart in the 1190s, and then was born in 1220. Neat trick, right? Unless some hobby genealogist can't do math but wants a royal connection. Yes, that's probably it.
Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
Thomas Eyre (1549-1628) and Elizabeth Rogers
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Please consider this. All over the United States, there are churches, shelters, charities, clinics, food banks, and many other outlets for you to help with. It's more than politics, more than writing a check or swiping a credit card, it's about being personally involved in helping human beings.
They are not sub-human. They are not gang members. They are NOT, repeat NOT, drug runners. They aren't "murderers and rapists" -- they're actual -
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I'm annoyed at the selfish comments by people who say a preventable disease is no big deal, or they had it and survived, or similar dreck that's all about them.
I’m annoyed by the crazy conspiracies that originate on mommy blogs and “health” websites that are not written by physicians, scientists, and immunologists. I hate the fact that there are parents who intentionally infect their children with diseases because it’s child abuse. Why would you make -
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Blog postMind. Blown. I did not see THAT coming.
5/5 stars for Zack Hunt’s Unraptured: How End Times Theology Gets It Wrong.
Having spent most of my life in a denomination that was founded because of the imminent second coming of Jesus, and which taught against a "secret rapture" and prophesied about an every-eye-shall-see-him event, I had different expectations when I was given the advance copy (ARC) of "Unraptured" to read and review. I carefully read the chapters and -
Blog post"From marie dire to ye generall court now this present 26th of ye 8 moth 59," a snippet of Mary Dyer's letter to the court that had sentenced her to hang with two other Quakers the next day.
A high-quality print of Mary's handwritten letter is available HERE.
© 2019 Christy K Robinson
If you think keeping track of the changes on and off Daylight Savings Time are difficult, you should take a moment to thank historical authors for figuring out -
Blog postI've made 2019 the year of helping/assisting/loving/donating/volunteering on my Discovering Love inspirational site. Most of the articles will be mine, but I’ve asked friends for guest articles on how they’re working in their circles of influence. Stay tuned!
A Central American boy chose a hot-pink teddy bear from the large bag of soft toys.I blurred the faces for security's sake. The smiles under the blurs
showed their excitement at having their own soft toys to love.
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During Women’s History Month, we often hear the stories of women in recent history. This article celebrates a woman who gave her life to force the New England theocracy to stop persecuting (fining, beating, torturing, hanging) those who believed differently than the fundamental dogma. Meet Mary Barrett Dyer, 1611-1660.
Mary Barrett was raised in London, to parents history has lost track of. Unusually for a girl of her era, she was well educated a -
Blog postMarch 8 is International Women's Day, and March is Women's History Month.
Here are the FIRST WOMEN IN AMERICA to defy oppression and advocate "liberty of conscience," including religious liberty and freedom of speech.
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Christy K Robinson is author of these books: We Shall Be Changed (2010) Mary Dyer Illuminated Vol. 1 (2013) Mary Dyer: For Such a Time as This Vol. 2 (2014) The Dyers of London, Boston, & Newport&n -
Blog postI've made 2019 the year of helping/assisting/loving/donating/volunteering on my Discovering Love inspirational site. Most of the articles will be mine, but I’ve asked friends for guest articles on how they’re working in their circles of influence. Stay tuned! © 2019 Christy K Robinson
Based on some of the foods I've cooked and taken to host churches to serve to Central American refugees, I've decided to post a couple of recipes appropriate for feeding large groups -
Blog postI've made 2019 the year of helping/assisting/loving/donating/volunteering on my Discovering Love inspirational site. Most of the articles will be mine, but I’ve asked friends for guest articles on how they’re working in their circles of influence. Stay tuned!
© 2019 Christy K Robinson
A couple of my pastor-friends recently posted questions about church growth, evangelism, and what might make a church more relevant in the 21st century than in the -
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My grandmother Opal was born a Carter in Iowa. She was part of a small family of two daughters. But she had more cousins than one can count because her father, Alonzo Calvin Carter, had 12 siblings, and her grandfather, Alonzo Jackson Carter, had 9 siblings. The next generation up had 5 Carter siblings, then the one above that had 15 children!
Alonzo Jackson Carter, wife Lucetta Derringer,
parents of 13, with daughter Della May, abou -
Blog post(excerpted from the book Anne Marbury Hutchinson: American Founding Mother, © 2018 by Christy K Robinson, Editornado Publishing)
In 1640, when Rev. John Cotton had turned against Anne and the Boston church had sent a delegation of men to Rhode Island to get Anne to recant and come under submission of the church that had banished her, the men urged William Hutchinson to force his wife Anne to bend.
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In the middle of the storm, I am holding on to you.
I've sung this song in church numerous times, and heard it on the radio, and have known it as a declaration of me holding onto God for help, for salvation, for love.
In the Old Testament, God gives his name to Moses as I AM, or I WILL BE WHO I WILL BE. In Hebrew letters, it's spelled YHWH. In Exodus 3:14, God said to Moses, "I AM who I AM"; and he said, "Th -
Blog postI've decided to make 2019 the year of helping/assisting/loving/donating/volunteering on my Discovering Love inspirational site. Most of the articles will be mine, but I’ve asked friends for guest articles on how they’re working in their circles of influence. Stay tuned!
© 2019 Christy K Robinson
Part of being a humane (compassionate, empathetic, kind, ethical) person is sacrificial giving. That's what we were taught in Bible classes and scout-typ -
Blog postI've made 2019 the year of helping/assisting/loving/donating/volunteering on my Discovering Love inspirational site. Most of the articles will be mine, but I’ve asked friends for ideas on how they’re working in their circles of influence. Stay tuned!
© 2019 Christy K Robinson
As a church musician, and school pianist before that, I can't count the times I've played this old hymn, Power in the Blood.There is power, power, wonder-working power
In the -
Blog post“For here on either side of the wall are God’s children, and no man-made barrier can obliterate that fact.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I live in the Phoenix-metro area, about 200 miles from a Mexican port of entry. There are several churches in the Valley of the Sun that accept busloads of Central American asylum seekers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). These are people who have traveled more than 2,000 miles from their crim -
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I grew up in conservative churches and Christian schools that taught us not to exhibit emotion in our church services, and definitely not to raise our hands in worship, sway to the music, or speak during sermons and prayers by others, except for a quiet, restrained "Amen" once in a while. As a young adult, I was church keyboardist for a congregation where the choir director joked that they were the Frozen Chosen when it came to religious expr -
Blog post*****Christy K Robinson is author of these books: We Shall Be Changed (2010) Mary Dyer Illuminated Vol. 1 (2013) Mary Dyer: For Such a Time as This Vol. 2 (2014) The Dyers of London, Boston, & Newport Vol. 3 (2014) Effigy Hunter (2015) Anne Marbury Hutchinson: American Founding Mother (2018)
And of these sites: Discovering Love (inspiration and service)Rooting for Ancestors (history and genealogy)William and Mary Barrett Dy -
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Since 2015, I've been writing about the benefits of being grateful. It's my one New Year resolution each year. Having only the one, it means I am more likely to keep my resolution.
Living a grateful life is a happier life, and less tense or fearful because I come to the place where God is in control, and not some negative force. For instance, I believe that our nation, and indeed the world, is headed for another financial crash that will b -
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Early Quakers like Mary Barrett Dyer, John Copeland, Christopher Holder, Humphrey Norton, William Robinson and Marmaduke Stevenson referred to their religious experience of Christ in their hearts as The Light.
They understood the words of Jesus, that while he was in the world, he was “the Light of the world.” (John 9:5)
But Jesus also said, "You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp an -
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On Christmas Eve, the parent of my piano students brought over a gift card for me, on which she wrote "Happy Holiday Christ." She's Buddhist and a first-generation Chinese immigrant, and forgot the Y on my name. But I must admit, being called a name of God does seem like a lot to live up to!
On the other hand, my parents named me Christy because of its meaning: "anointed to royal service." Taking and -
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In the early 1990s before she passed away, my mother gave me an antique carriage clock she said belonged to her grandfather, John Russell Stone (1880-1938). Today I tried to find an age for my clock, and one antique store listing says "first half of 19th century." If it came down in John Stone’s family, that would mean it belonged to his grandparents. Mine looks just like the antique store’s photo, and has the key inside the back door, but it -
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Rather than write a narrative on the life of my 8thgreat-grandfather Isaac Robinson, son of Rev. John Robinson, I’ll submit this timeline of his life events, along with my commentary.
Timeline:
Leiden, Netherlands, centered around the St Pieterskirke where
Rev. John Robinson is buried.1610 Isaac Robinson born in Leiden, Netherlands, to Rev. John and Bridget Robinson, pas -
Blog postPre-Christmas Salefor History Loversand Gift GiversBooks can be autographed by author (free)for as long as I have them in stock.
Thereafter, please order books through Amazon.
New in 2018!
Title List Price (Amazon) Holiday Sale Pricethru Dec. 31, 2018 USPS shipping within United States Anne Marbury Hutchinson, American Founding Mother $18.00 $15.007 in stock $4.00
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On Nov. 11, 2018, the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that ended the Great War in 1918, I played the piano for the Life Church choir as we honored the sacrifices of millions of people who endured the horrors of World War I. Click "play" to hear the inspiring piece as you read the article below.
Leonard Robinson, in 1918-1919At age 33 in 1918, my paternal grandfather, Leonard Robinson, joined the American Expeditionary Force, and was assigne -
Blog postI've emerged from my writer/editor cave and proudly present a NEW BOOK, Anne Marbury Hutchinson: American Founding Mother. It's a nonfiction biography of Anne Hutchinson, and how her experience in the 1630s still resonates in the world today.
Years in the research, and 2.5 years in the writing and editing process, it's now available in paperback (Kindle available after Nov. 3). Mary Dyer, of course, has a larger role in the book than other authors have presented, considering my previous a -
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While researching my books on William and Mary Dyer, and my 2018 book on Anne Hutchinson, I found many books, images, and ballads from their time period, the early- and mid-17th century.
This broadsheet, basically a paper periodical of the day, was written by an unknown author and published in 1647, during the English Civil Wars. The ECW had begun over royal authority (the divine rights of kings) and religious upheaval and reformatio -
Blog postRead more reviews and order the books at http://bit.ly/DyersSeries
* * * * * 5 Stars for Mary Dyer Illuminated
MARY DYER ILLUMINATED is an example of historical fiction at its finest. A biographical work spanning the first forty years of Mary’s life, this novel paints beautiful descriptions of old England and old London. The history is amazingly well researched yet the story is smoothly, clearly drawn on the page. I felt as if Westminster and old Lincolnshire lived for mea -
Blog postA quick, compulsive, must-read thriller you wouldn't expect from the mother of a murdered child, From Miracle to Murder is a mystery both fascinating and horrifying -- because it really happened.
from Editornado on July 21, 2018
5 stars, well-deserved for excellent writing, story-telling, and pacing
I stepped out of my 17th-century history genre to read this true-crime book, From Miracle to Murder: Justice for Adam. I was blo
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