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by Emily Peyton
A Letter from the Heart to Mike Mrowicki, Rev. Sparrow, and the Interfaith Community
An interfaith initiative titled “White Christian Nationalism” recently circulated in Vermont, culminating in a gathering at the Putney Meeting House, led by Representative Mike Mrowicki and Reverend Sparrow. Everyone was friendly, and I believe well-intentioned. But
Let’s name the framing clearly: “White Christian Nationalism” — a term loaded with the implication that nationalism is a threat, and that it only exists in white, Christian people — and that both the color and the faith are somehow to blame. The assumption running beneath this label is that these people — people like me — seek control over others. It stokes fear. It foments division. It quietly says: they are dangerous, we must stop them. And this, from two leaders I respect — Mike and Rev. Sparrow — made me deeply sad.
Worse, the talk included blatant falsehoods — for example, “we must protect our democracy.” This is misinformation. We are not a democracy. We are a constitutional republic, where officials are elected to serve the people within limits defined by our Constitution. The founders feared mob rule. They designed a system where laws and structure would prevail over raw emotion. We don’t need to protect democracy. We need to repair our Republic. Root out corruption. Restore knowledge. Return to truth.
There were untruths told about Christian Nationalists — a label which, at its core, simply refers to people who love their country and hold Christian values. Within this group are people of every skin tone — not just white. Many Hispanics and Black Americans hold these values dearly. Yet somehow, these individuals were erased, and an accusation was put forward: that all Christian Nationalists hate migrants. This is a lie. And it stokes hatred.
We don’t hate migrants. We hate human trafficking. There’s a lawful, honorable way to grow our nation. But cartels are managing open borders, trafficking drugs, women, and children. These aren’t just talking points — they are horror stories I’ve studied, witnessed, and heard firsthand. Children are sold, abused, raped — trees marked in blood as “rape trees.” Over 300,000 children remain unaccounted for under the Biden administration. And if Christian Nationalists are dedicating their energy to freeing those children, how could that possibly make them the enemy? Shouldn’t the so-called “tolerant” Left be joining that effort?
I’ve spoken with airport workers. I’ve seen children shuffled along like cargo. I’ve attended conferences and watched the documentaries — not fiction, but testimony. I’ve seen how blackmail is used to turn good people into puppets. That’s how power now operates — not through integrity, but control.
And I must ask — where is the Left? Where is their outrage for these children?
Instead, they turn their outrage against those of us who speak up. They call us hateful. Extremist. Meanwhile, they support policies that allow children to be sterilized before adulthood, and girls to be forced to compete in sports against biological males. Christians see this and feel — with reason — that these policies are not protective, they are cruel. They erase childhood. They erase fairness. They erase innocence.
Do you, my liberal friends, not see that?
It is clear to many of us that the Left no longer practices the tolerance it preaches. During COVID, I was told I wanted people to die — simply because I held alternative views on medicine and healing. But in truth, I wanted to save lives — just not with fear, drugs, and control. I believe in the body’s innate wisdom, in food as medicine, in nature’s remedies. I honor doctors who heal, but I do not — I cannot — support an industry that profits from perpetual sickness.
Likewise, I see the Christian community as an ally — in defending children, protecting the natural world, building fair economies, and ending corruption. Why make us the enemy? Why divide the country further?
If there is an enemy of humanity, let us name it truly: the central bankers. These are the profiteers of debt, war, manipulation, and fear. The Federal Reserve — neither federal nor a reserve — fuels the machine that keeps humanity in bondage. Why does the interfaith community not speak of this?
The Founding Fathers — for all their vision — gave no role to women. And this was a grave mistake. They admired the Iroquois Confederacy’s centuries of peace, but failed to see why that peace endured: it was the Grandmothers who chose the leaders, and who decided when to go to war — because they understood the true cost of losing their sons. Our nation was built on competition, with no counterbalance of nurturance. And so, ruthlessness rose unchecked.
Now, Mother Earth calls for healing. And Father God is watching. Will we answer? Will we stop pretending that “smart” cities are wise? Will we build instead wise cities and wise farms, rooted in nature, food sovereignty, and community? Will we study not just Project 2025, but also Agenda 2030 — and ask ourselves who is deciding our future?
Above all — will we return to our Constitutions, state and federal, reading every word, teaching them to our children, defending them not with slogans but with knowledge?
We are a people at war, and yet we all want to manifest peace. All war is unlawful and deliberated—staged and executed at the hand of central bankers, most decidedly as a boxing match is planned, staged, and opposing sides emotionally pumped, tickets sold and profits made. Only in the case of War, the secondary ‘benefit’ to the criminals that strategize and devise it, is increased control over the liberties of moral people. We must end all
violence: emotional, physical, sexual, environmental, economic, spiritual as a matter of law, and establish the equality of every man and woman before the law, regardless of ‘sovereign immunity’ statements and claims of protection by those who behave most lawlessly, such as the Bank of International Settlements.
War itself is a racket — staged like a boxing match, but with real blood. And today’s weapons include bioweapons, digital control, geoengineering, and psychological manipulation. This is not imagination — it is documented fact. And we must no longer tolerate it.
Let us reclaim our humanity — together. I invite you, Mike to work together with me for our collective justice, fairness and local repair of Nature and Humanity.
We are one race. Divided, yes. But soon, united — for healing, for truth, for life. The Grandmothers are rising, and so is the Great Awakening.
Our healing is inevitable. Let’s live it. Let’s honor it. Let’s enjoy it.
Emily Peyton (Vermont Progressive Party) ran for election to the Vermont House of Representatives to represent Windham-4 District. She lost in the Vermont Progressive Party primary on August 13, 2024. Rep. Mike Mrowicki won the election in November.
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Well Emily, always interesting thoughts and conversations……..perhaps you should have been leading the Republican Party and not the progressives!
Some of this comes down to “Who’s your daddy?” If you read Saul Alinsky’s book, it’s clear who is daddy is, because he dedicates his book to him.
And from there we know why those who follow Jesus are mocked, ridiculed and called white christian nationalists, like it’s a slur, even in my own church. Who is the father of lies? Who creates the division?
People don’t even know Jesus Christ, they know nothing of him, and nature hates a vacuum, so what fills our heads? Why would ANYONE have a problem with Jesus Christ? There is your answer too.
Jesus is offensive because people don’t want believe they need a savior. “I’m a good person.” Pride. It appears H Jay Eshelman does not want to try Jesus for himself, “If you don’t have Jesus in your heart, then what?” You’ll never know the difference unless you are sincere in your inquiry of who He is and what He has done for us, and this serious inquiry takes as much or more time than it does to investigate government policies and goverment players.
Why would anyone have a problem with religion? Because while we are free to worship as we may in the USA we cannot go around a corner without also being FREE FROM RELIGION. Some of us value essentially the same ideals but without a system of fear and chastising due to not following “their way”. If we held this “constant” we would still have Asians segregated and other styles of functional medicine would have likely never made it to the US or at least would have been very much underground. So, for all of you out there looking for an answer that continues to keep America as the “big melting pot” – we need to ban all public displays of religion and level the playing field evenly. Let’s do away with the ingrained pecking order high school idiocy, shall we, and all just be humans? The “golf balls” that come to America and do wrong will stick their heads out of the crowd and show themselves. Do right and speak up when the opportunity for breaking out the driver pops up.
There are theocracies….there are religions that have been taken over by governments, which was what our founding fathers were fleeing, the corrupt church of England.
Then there is Jesus Christ. What issues have you with Jesus Christ, do you know him?
What way of,
Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Meekness, Gentleness and Self-Control do you find objectionable?
Most Christians, let alone people know or follow Jesus. Most know nothing about him, I’d highly recommend two very short books in the Bible, The Book of John and the book of Acts.
You are always free to do as you choose. Some results are very, very predictable, which is why we are in current mess.
Re: “– we need to ban all public displays of religion and level the playing field evenly.”
Funny thing with both sides displayed here.
On one hand, we have Neil’s assumption that for those without Jesus in their heart, “Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Meekness, Gentleness and Self-Control [is] objectionable?
On the other hand, while “we’re free to worship as we may”, Bear suggests that “we need to ban all public displays of religion”.
What both of you seem to be missing is the wisdom put forth by our founders and our Constitution. The first amendment puts it this way.
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
Question: What is it about this bedrock of our society that neither of you understand? No. Government can’t establish a religion – including Christianity or Atheism, or anything in between. And no. Government can’t prohibit anyone from the free exercise of their religion nor prohibit peaceful assembly, in private or in public.
Why do both of you persist in imposing your point of view on everyone else? The mere fact that you’re able to express your views, here or anywhere else, should give you both great comfort. How about we live and let live for a change. Speak your mind, to be sure. But understand that the voluntary rights we have, as specified by our Constitution, guarantees all of us that:
‘if an exchange between two parties is voluntary, it will not take place unless both believe they will benefit from it. Most …. fallacies derive from the neglect of this simple insight, from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.’
There’s no doubt. This principle is slowly but surely dissolving before us. Let’s reestablish it for a change, instead of tearing it down to further our personal sensibilities at the expense of others.
In the final analysis, I don’t care what either of you think. Do what you will. But leave me alone and I will extend to you the same courtesy.
Jay, I agree with everything you said, the thoughts are not mutually exclusive.
We are all following somebody, our own prideful thoughts, somebody, there is not much new under the sun. I’m posing the questions for people to consider, or delete, or ignore. It’s part of the open debate, rarely if ever can you debate somebody and change their mind. The discussion is for those outside the active debate to consider and take up should they so desire.
And you missed the point I was trying to make. Having Jesus, the Holy Spirit, in your heart, active in life changes you. Most of us can’t change, we do the things we aren’t supposed to do and don’t do the things we are supposed to do. We are fighting, lustful, impatient, rude, etc. If you follow and take him into your heart, little by little you change. Like getting a new puppy, your life changes. Like getting a new baby, your life and focus change.
And those changes within your life are peace…joy……..those first century christians lived a wonderful joyful life under the most oppressive of conditions. You are given power by the Holy Spirit to do things you couldn’t do before, to avoid sin. That is the fruit, the result of a relationship with Jesus Christ, with intimacy with the Holy Spirit.
Life is ala carte, you don’t have to pick from the buffet table things you don’t want. Peace. Go for the chicken tenders, they are really good.
Re: ” …. the point I was trying to make. Having Jesus, the Holy Spirit, in your heart, active in life changes you.”
And if you don’t have Jesus in your heart…. then what?
I do understand that some Christians and Christian denominations use fear as a mechanism of control, and it is totally off putting, as is hypocrisy, judgmentalness, religion, and legalism. None of this is of God. Christians are held to a higher standard by God, but we’re by no means perfect. Jesus offers an invitation. It’s not compelled. People can choose to be with Him or without Him. However, there are always consequencws for our choices under natural law. Always. As far as not being able to turn a corner without running into religion, I feel that way about Humanism and the cultural ideologies we have nearly shoved in our faces every day, with forced compliance. God does not force. He’s our free will Creator, made in His image, not evolved from primates.
As a Catholic, I hope I’m exempt from such bigotry. We are an INTERnational Christian organization, one that now happens to be led by an American. “Christian Nationalist” is on a par with “Deplorables,” just another bugbear conjured up by people who have nothing else to offer.
AMERICA THE MERCIFUL
By Ellin Anderson
We are in Eden — have no doubt
The greatest bounty is spread out
Before us, as we work and play
In God’s own land, the USA.
Amid the powers of Heaven and Hell,
I pray that we will use it well
Because no other nation’s graced
As such — so much — beware the waste
Of purple mountains’ majesty
Within the soul — a travesty
If it confuses and embroils
The users who lay waste the spoils.
What do we have — where to begin?
I’ll never hear my door kicked in
At that small cottage made for me
Where I can pray the Rosary
Unjudged, untrammeled, unobserved,
Where rights, not might, have been preserved
For the dictator and the dove,
The hater and the blameless love.
That’s how it is, for every kind:
Justice is keen-eyed, but is blind
Where God’s own tender mercies fall
Like measured rain upon us all.
The sadness is the deception that many think our Constitution embodies and protects the Separation of Church and State. That phrase is NOT in the Constitution, or any other document from our Founding Father’s. Because of the deception many frame the term ‘Christian Nationalist’ if a Christian is patriotic and loves the country where God has put them. The truth, the term ‘separation of Church and state’s was in a letter Thomas Jefferson wrote the Baptist churches in Danbury, Connecticut assuring them that the state couldn’t control the function of the church (like King George did pre Revolutionary war), stating that our USA Constitution provision develops a separation of church and state, as a church protection from the state. (Not the other way around). Mother Earth (a form of Gaia Worship) that Emily Peyton says cry’s for healing is not factual. Healing is from God, and God alone. It is we, the Christian Nationalist (if there really is such a thing) that cries out for healing from God for a country who is sick, sometimes perverted, and lost
Well stated, Bob! Amen!
The age old divide and conquer strategy is quite simple. All who insist on being treated equal also insist on special treatment according to their self-applied labels installed into their brains by the overlords.
What started out in America was an experiment – never done before anywhere. In concept, with some basic self-evident Truths and a few rebellious young men (yes, they were very young at the time) envisoned a free, yet, cohesive society – in contrast to the Crown’s template from the Romans and the Pharaohs. As laid out in the Preamble: “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
The problem from the start – there is no such thing as perfect and more perfect is false positivity. All good ideas and righteous ideas. Yet, the yoke of jolly old England and then France, was always around our necks because we were broke from the wars. Today, we are broke because of endless wars. Counter-intuitive from what was laid out in the 1700’s. We were never free of indebtedness. When our country was turned into a corporation, (thanks Woodrow Wilson – you cad!) we, the People, were turned over to bankers like chattle. There was no stopping the age old bloodlines from taking over and playing the same old playbook over and over.
There is no “nationalism” in the USA – we are not a stand alone, sovereign nation for the simple fact that foreign nations and bankers own us and our resources. People can say and label themselves whatever they want and pretend they are super special. The Truth is they are not anything but owned and enslaved by a handful of powerful, extraordinarily wealthy bloodlines. Nothing new under the sun. Perhaps after the tribulation, as is written – 1000 years of peace? In the meantime, the depopulation, wealth transfer and reset is coming like a freight train – we are at the end of the grand great experiment, we have no leadership and we are insolvent.
Coming together to save the nation? Only if the labels are dropped and all stand for humanity against those who wish to turn us into controllable machines – they said it themselves and the patents filed. God speed to one and all.
Re: Above all — will we return to our Constitutions, state and federal, reading every word, teaching them to our children, defending them not with slogans but with knowledge?
What a joke these two Commiecrats have subverted both VT and US constitutions
every time they ignored them and voted for all the gun control laws that they voted for.
Antonin Scalia: “The Constitution is not a living organism, it’s a legal document, and it says what it says, and it doesn’t say what it doesn’t say”.
Antonin Scalia:“The very text of the 2nd Amendment implicitly recognizes the pre-existence of the right and only declares it shall not be infringed”.
Have to love the commentary at VDC, would you find the above on front porch forum, VPR or VT Digger? Most certainly not….
Valuing the same ideals as religion, well perhaps the most important, is I’m a sinner, which is an archery term, I’ve missed the bullseye. The 10 commandments weren’t there for us to feel self-righteous, I’ve never killed anyone so I’m good. No, it was to expose our sinful nature, have you ever hated anyone? Any hatred going on in Vermont? See not one of us are worthy.
Most people and most Christians don’t have an inkling about this, because if they did, they would have more patience, empathy for those who are lost in sin. We are all on different paths, we don’t necessarily know why at the moment. Abortion is a great topic for this. People are judging those who have had them, however, those who have had them also, perhaps could not take in the guilt, they were lied to, they were caught in lust/selfishness, many of us have not experienced this, more by the grace of God than our actual doing. We pick on one type of sexual sin, rather than looking at our own. Why isn’t anyone talking about sex outside of marriage being a bad idea? Perhaps because if we look at ourselves, I can speak for myself, I’ve fallen terrible short of God’s plan and paid a high price for it I might add.
Our nation can be healed; there is but one answer. Our nation has been subverted, by entities, spirits and organizations, it doesn’t even matter which ones you point, the evidence is clear from the results. Look at church street in Burlington as the bell weather of a fine state.
This street was Vermont’s pride and joy, people coming together in commerce, harmony and enjoyment. Now, church street, the queen cities lawn front and back is filled with garbage, drug dealers, homeless, drug users, crime, killings and general fear to visit at night, all changed in a very short time frame. Who the hell wants to hang out on Church Street now? This is outside the mayor’s office for God’s sake. Clearly, she’s very ok with this, otherwise there would be change.
I’ll post this video for others, I keep posting for it covers much truth in what has happened/happening in Vermont and also gives the cure, much to everyone’s surprise, it’s quite simple. TGBTG
The practice of Zen (IMHO) kinda boils down to: “join us, if you wish, for knowledge and peace”. Big box old time religions kinda boil down to: “I must collect you for mine own or you will suffer, or, You must join or be removed”. Follow that up with we’re all utilizing the same concepts for the same means and ends, and it all boils down to human translation, as it always has. Every other public display needs a permit, and big box religions prove more and more, day after day that corruption, greed, “sin”, and extremism run rampant (or are covered up). Don’t know about you, but it doesn’t sound like anything I want to see in public any more, and that includes fetish world items being shared with minors (aside, I think it would be a positive if religion were to be 18+ as well). Matter of fact I want to see anyone putting up their tent have a BBB rating ability. George Carlin said it best about religion, if you don’t know the words I am sure the censors won’t allow it here, look it up for one’s self if you don’t accept your “blinders”.
Religion – seek it if you want it, and find what fits your heart’s style should be the rule. Things have arguably gone far too far since the founding fathers put those ideals down on paper. Level the playing field, hit the reset button, whatever you want to call it. Your religion is yours, not mine. You have every choice to practice it by those founding rules, not shove it down anyone else’s throats. If you stand back and honestly look, that’s the war we are in right now. Haven’t we had enough friction already?