Susan Hill (pictured) was a trailblazer in many ways. 

Fort Wayne, Jackson, Mississippi, Fargo, SD, Milwaukee and many other midsized American cities were without abortion providers in the 70’s. 

Susan raced for the cure, founding an abortion empire based in mid-sized cities.  Here is a link on that empire that she lost long before her death.

Fort Wayne fought Hill’s cure.  Susan won that battle.  Click here for that deep background.

Phyllis Avila, Phyllis Morken and five other nurses in Fort Wayne stood on their Christian faith and against Susan Hill’s Fort Wayne child killing operation back in the early 80’s.  They were successful in reaching out to abortion bound women, getting some to choose life rather than choosing to enrich Susan Hill.

Susan raced for the cure, bringing one of the first, if not the first, federal lawsuits against pro-life sidewalk counselors in the nation.  The case was against the Nurses Concerned for Life.  

Frank and Phyllis Avila fought Susan’s cure.   Susan won that battle when our dear Phyllis dropped dead from the stress of the lawsuit  — even though the First Amendment-offending lawsuit was eventually dismissed.  Here is a salute to Fort Wayne’s dear Phyllis, who left behind ten children and a soul mate who misses her every day.

Ten years later NorthEast Indiana Rescue led sit-ins at 827 Webster Street.  The movement was revivalist and Christ-centered.  It stood on the principles recently promoted by the Manhattan Declaration.  (Click here for more on that).  We were successful in unifying Christians in civil disobedience arising out of a call to godly obedience.

Susan raced for the cure, flying ACLU and NOW attorney in from New York City to crucify me, Ellen Brown and Wendell Brane in federal court around Easter, 1990.  Click here for more on that case.

We attempted to resist Susan’s cure – to no avail.  She had her way with the federal court (and most she ever approached — other than the Supreme Court) and us. We were ordered to pay $61616 directly to Susan Hill and/or George Ulrich Klopfer.  My wife of ten years left me, filed for divorce and then married my former best friend.  It was a very difficult time for me.  One year later I walked away from almost everything I had and almost everyone I knew, leaving Fort Wayne for Wichita and then an uncertain destination after that. 

It felt like the sad end of my life in many ways, but it was really just a happy new beginning.

Eighteen years later I returned to Fort Wayne with a beautiful, godly wife and four (now five) children.  My Heavenly Father had blessed me with a faithful and loyal soul mate during my wanderings and cured me of documented (two doctors) infertility.  I returned to set up the ArchAngel Institute at 827 Webster Street after my father and mother bought the location from Susan Hill’s handlers under the moniker Donegal Corridor. (Click here for that story.)

One year later I re-opened the 18 year old federal judgment adverse to me, Wendell and Ellen – at the suggestion of the Indiana Board of Law Examiners — and prevailed under a theory that many attorneys dubbed likely to fail.  The $61616 order was declared void by the same judge who had chained me to it in 1991.  Click here for that decision.  (Note the federal judge gives me a character reference in that opinion.) 

Susan did not race for the cure.  Susan Hill lost that skirmish, although her apparatchiks in the Indiana bar and among the mental health professionals planted their feminist flag in my vulnerable chest as retribution.  Click here for more on that.

In the last ten years of her life Susan Hill fought cancer  — first in her sister,  and then in her own body.

Susan allegedly dedicated herself to racing toward a cure for breast cancer.  This is ironic since she also spent her entire adult life promoting oral contraceptives and abortion, two of the leading causes of breast cancer.  (Google search that if you doubt me.)

In other words, Susan Hill claimed to be racing for the cure while yet deeply involved in spreading the very disease of breast cancer.

Natural law resisted Susan’s half-hearted stab at the cure, as natural law always does.   You just cannot fool Mother Nature.

Susan Hill’s final race for the cure came up short.  Cancer won.  First in his sister, and then in her. 

And Susan’s compatriots in the abortion industry mourn her death while they, too,  still spread the disease that she championed.  The culture of death thus ensure many more Susan Hill’s in America’s future. 

According to her obituary (click here) Susan left no children behind.  At least she was consistent:  She spent her entire life advancing planned barrenhood for others and managed to sidestep the tremendous blessing of children for herself.   She spent her entire adult life racing toward a cure for childbearing and left this world without posterity.  She spent all of her energies on chasing the cure for fertility and found an infertility that became malignant.   

Here is the moral of Susan Hill’s story, at least as it is viewed from 827 Webster Street:

We must ever be mindful of what cures we are racing toward, for,  like dogs chasing cars, our biggest problems sometimes arrive when we finally catch what we have mindlessly pursued.

Or, switching metaphors, women need babies far more than goldfish need bicycles, as many an aging feminist has now admitted.

Be the analysis Christian or Darwinian, Susan’s cure, at the end of the road, is proved dysfunctional.  She raced toward death.

Yes, I am blue.  I guess I am a hopeless romantic.  I love symmetry and closure.  Call me naive — I am, I know — but I had hoped Susan and I would be able to reconcile one fine day.  It is much like the wife who walked out on me when Susan Hill sued us.  (The marriage had actually never launched, but I was naive.)  I always hoped for closure there,  too.   But life is not laundry stacked in neat white bundles.  It is blood and soiled clothing thrown about the room. 

I am blue tonight, and have been all day, because Susan Hill and I never got the chance to sit down and discuss our issues.  I wrote her in the Summer of 2008 and linked to her blogs often from this site.  I tried, but probably not hard enough.  I wish I had tried harder.

Here is what her friends are saying about her.

It feels like a door has closed that will never be open again. Here is Susan’s final television interview.

Am I mourning a devil in a black dress?  (I will always remember Susan in the black dress at our Summer, 1989 rescue, standing at the door of 827 Webster Street.  She was clearly not afraid of the pro-lifers, for good reason — we were quite peaceful.)  She was a beautiful and graceful women in her day  — one that managed her own, personal holocaust.  According to some estimates that I have read she oversaw the legal extermination of 400,000 fetuses.  (Fetus is Latin for “little person.”)

Each one of these 400,000 “pests” where guilty of being in the wrong place (an unwelcome womb) at the wrong time (within the first six months of gestation).  Hill did not exterminate the preborn once they reached six months of development — she then sent the mothers to Kansas for the coup de grace on their babies.

How did this product of a Southern Baptist upbringing live with such death-dealing?  Her ideology trumped the understanding of Holy Scripture that she had been taught in her youth.  Like many feminists (she was given the NOW’s unsung hero award in 1990) she was a “Jet all the way.” 

Here come the Jets
Like a bat out of hell.
Someone gets in our way,
Someone don’t feel so well!

400,000 little ones could sing about being in Susan’s way. 

But was Susan just doing God’s Will?   Her partner in abortion in Fort Wayne, George Ulrich Klopfer (meet him here) claims he does just that.  Could they be right?

If you are adverse to controversy stop reading this post right now.  If you are post-abortive you should probably consider turning away as well.

Many poke fun of the Roman Catholic faith for its teaching that babies who die without baptism go to “Limbo.”  We all want to believe that such innocents are whisked on angel’s wings straight to Heaven.  It makes comforting the post-abortive women  so much more, well, hopeful.  “Your babies wait for you in Heaven.”  We can comfort ourselves with the belief that those preborns “processed” in the local abortuaries end up in a better place once the vacuum aspirator dispatches them from this terrestrial orb.

But let’s be consistent.  Doesn’t that make Susan Hill and Ulrich Klopfer evangelists of the order of Billy Graham?   I mean, if those kids were born they could have experienced hunger, thirst, child abuse, a teenage wasteland, the quiet desperation of growing older and then — so goes the teaching — a high likelihood of going to Hell.  (Broad is that path, we have it on good authority.)

None of the little ones who got in Susan Hill’s way had to take this risk.  They did not have to worry about a hellish life or life in Hell — she, through her tools like Klopfer, sent them straight to the pearly gates.

If you really believed this then what is the big deal about having an abortion — or two — or ten.   Speaking of ten, what couple could give birth to ten kids and have a good faith belief that all make it to Heaven?  Most large families have at least one “black sheep” or “stray cat.”  But under the theology discussed herein all ten go straight to Heaven immediately following their abortion.

Making Susan Hill a super evangelist.  Forget the Bible, she carried a scalpel.

But there is another possibility.  One far less comforting.  One allowing us to view Susan as an agent of the Evil One — an architect of genocide both physical and spiritual.

That is the belief that the aborted pre-born — carrying Adam’s curse but no baptism (other than their own blood) ended up in Limbo. 

What will their eternal fate be?  Who can say?  Not me, not you under this paradigm. 

We can only hope, as we are instructed to do in the 1994 Catechism of the Catholic Church:

 “As regards children who have died without baptism, the church can only entrust them to the mercy of God, as she does in her funeral rites for them. Indeed, the great mercy of God who desires that all men should be saved, and Jesus’ tenderness toward children which caused him to say: ‘Let the children come to me, do not hinder them,’ allow us to hope that there is a way of salvation for children who have died without baptism.”

Who can have a second abortion after staring into that abyss of unknowing?  Only the most hardened.  This site makes that point, in a somewhat scoffing fashion.

Do we still mourn Susan Hill if Limbo is real?  Yes, but with a deep and abiding hatred for the empire that she built, managed and lost. 

Rest in peace, Susan, if you can. 

When you’re a Jet,
You’re a Jet all the way
From your first cigarette
To your last dyin’ day.

Susan, since there is no evidence that you repented from your great sin the best that I can do is hope that you landed in Limbo with all of the little ones that you sent to that same place.  May God have mercy on their souls first, and then even on your own.

I missed this February 1st since I was buried in her former abortion clinic writing a brief to the Supreme Court of the United States made necessary because I crossed swords with her, but ….  I am sad to report that Susan Hill crossed over to the other side on February 1. 

Here is Jill Stanek’s article on Hill’s passing:      http://www.jillstanek.com/archives/2010/02/abortionist_sus.html

Much is said of her here on the Institute’s website.  We hope she read some of it and made her peace with the Lord.  (She wrote about me before I wrote about her: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/11/4/69682/-The-Right-Wings-20-Year-Plan )

This much is now certain.  Her fate, for eternal life or eternal death, is now sealed.

Who’s next?

This is the final painting in our collection and the last post in a series that begins here.  .  It graces the window of the room of the former abortion clinic in which women sadly waited to enter one of the three “procedure” rooms.  It is a room hallowed by much mourning and a room dedicated to Mary’s care by more than twenty years of prayer vigils just beside it, in the corner of the small public park adjacent to the ArchAngel Institute.  The Institute thanks and honors those who stood in silent vigil for two decades outside this former clinic.

Today we mark Epiphany, the visit of the Magi to the Christ child.  They brought him four gifts, the final gift being the most crucial.

The first three are well considered: Gold, frankincense and myrrh.

They are gifts given royalty, and were, in fact homage to the King of kings from an empire that was not Roman or Greek at root. 

The fourth gift was the gift of civil disobedience.  

Click here to read more on that subject . . . and get the artist information. (more…)

This is the third  of three paintings celebrating the most crucial moment in Earth’s history.  This series on our illuminated, sacred art collection begins here. 

Have we spent too much time and too many windows on the annunciation?  It is the on of the most depicted scene in the history of art.  Why is that?

Because the moment that The Eternal God became man — the Incarnation — is the moment that all in this fallen world was changed forever. 

The Apostle John made this “enfleshment” the acid test between the Holy Spirit and the Spirit of Antichrist:”By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Anti-christ, which you have heard is coming, and is now already in the world.”  I John 4:2,3

What if all Christians adopted this simple test to determine good from evil?  Could we, perhaps, find Christendom in the process of rebirth if we only followed the Apostle’s directions on who we looked to for authority?  (Would indeed be bad for modern governments, Hollywood, the secular Universities, man’s law and many other present cultural institutions.)

How does Martin Luther fare under this test?  Read on to find out, followed by artist information on this final annunciation painting.

Martin Luther from The Martin Luther Christmas Book, by Roland H. Bainton (Philadelphia: Muhlenberg, 1948)

On the Annunciation

To this poor maiden marvelous things were announced : that she should be the mother of the All Highest, whose name should be the Son of God. He would be a King and of his Kingdom there would be no end. It took a reach of faith to believe that this baby would play such a role. Well might Mary have said, “Who am I, little worm, that I should bear a King?” She might have doubted, but she shut her eyes and trusted in God who could bring all things to pass, even though common sense were, against it; and because she believed, God did to her as he had said:; She was indeed troubled at first and inquired, “How can these things be, seeing that I know not a man?” She was flesh and blood, and, for that reason the angel reassured her, saying, “The Holy Ghost shall come upon you, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow you, and therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of you shall be called the Son of God.”

We must both read and meditate upon the Nativity. If the meditation does not reach the heart, we shall sense no sweetness, nor shall we know what solace for humankind lies in this contemplation. The heart will not laugh nor be merry. As spray does not touch the deep, so mere meditation will not quiet the heart. ‘There is such richness and goodness in this Nativity that if we should see and deeply understand, we should be dissolved in perpetual joy. Wherefore Saint Bernard declared there are here three miracles: that God and man should be joined in this Child; that a mother should remain a virgin; that Mary should have such faith as to believe that this mystery would be accomplished in her. The last is not the least of the three. The Virgin birth is a mere trifle for God; that God should become man is a greater miracle; but most amazing of all is it that this maiden should credit the announcement that she, rather than some other virgin, had been chosen to be the mother of God. She did indeed inquire of the angel, “How can these things be?”-and he answered, “Mary, you have asked too high a question for me, but the Holy Spirit will come upon you and the power of the Most High will overshadow you and you will not know yourself how it happens.” Had she not believed, she could not have conceived. She held fast to the word of the angel because she had become a new creature. Even so must we be transformed and renewed in heart from day to day. Otherwise Christ is born in vain. This is the word of the prophet: “Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given” (Isa. 9:6). This is for us the hardest point, not so much to believe that He is the son of the Virgin and God himself, as to believe that this Son of God is ours: That is where we wilt, but he who does feel it has become another man. Truly it is marvelous in our eyes that God should place a little child in the lap of a virgin and that all our blessedness should lie in him. And this Child belongs to all mankind. God feeds the whole world through a Babe nursing at Mary’s breast. This must be our daily exercise : to be transformed into Christ, being nourished by this food. Then will the heart be suffused with all joy and will be strong and confident against every assault.

 On the Nativity

Let us, then, meditate upon the Nativity just as we see it happening in our own babies. I would not have you contemplate the deity of Christ, the majesty of Christ, but rather his flesh. Look upon the Baby Jesus. Divinity may terrify man. Inexpressible majesty will crush him. That is why Christ took on our humanity, save for sin, that he should not terrify us but rather that with love and favor he should console and confirm.

Behold Christ lying in the lap of his young mother, still a virgin. What can be sweeter than the Babe, what more lovely than the mother! What fairer than her youth! What more gracious than her virginity! Look at the Child, knowing nothing. Yet all that is belongs to him, that your conscience should not fear but take comfort in him. Doubt nothing. Watch him springing in the lap of the maiden. Laugh with him. Look upon this Lord of Peace and your spirit will be at peace. See how God invites you in many ways. He places before you a Babe with whom you may take refuge.You cannot fear him, for nothing is more appealing to man than a babe. Are you affrighted? Then come to him, lying in the lap of the fairest and sweetest maid. You will see how great is the divine goodness, which seeks above all else that you should not despair. Trust him! Trust him! Here is the Child in whom is salvation. To me there is no grater consolation given to mankind than this, that Christ became man, a child, a babe, playing in the lap and at the breasts of his most gracious mother. Who is there whom this sight would not comfort? Now is overcome the power of sin, death, hell, conscience, and guilt, if you come to this gurgling Babe and believe that he is come, not to judge you, but to save.

ARTIST:  PIETRO PERUGINO

This Annunciation was considered Perugino’s most masterful work.  He painted it around 1500, and was a contemporary of Raphael and Michelangelo.  “Gradually Perugino rose into notice, and became famous not only throughout Italy but even beyond. He was one of the earliest Italian painters to practise oil-painting, in which he evinced a depth and smoothness of tint, which elicited much remark.”

This is the second of three paintings celebrating the most crucial moment in Earth’s history.  This series on our illuminated, sacred art collection begins here.  The “why” for our collection is here.

Skepticism is widespread in our social order.  Even in the church.  Many “professional” church teachers play the doubter with miracles of the Old Testament.  A government-mandated and government-chosen psychiatrist (who considers herself a Christian) informed me that I was, in essence,  naive to believe that John the Baptist jumped in Elizabeth’s womb in response to the presence of the divine fetus. 

Skepticism rules among the elite, even the Christian “elite”  (the above referenced psychiatrist has an advanced degree in theology from a liberal Protestant seminary)  yet all Christians are supposed to affirm the humanly impossible — that the Eternal Father caused Jesus to be created in the Virgin’s womb without the aid of an earthly male.  This great miracle is celebrated at the former abortion clinic in a fitting tribute to the Gospel of Life.  It was impossible.  But with God, all things are possible.

Here is the text that we celebrate with our three annunciations windows, followed by the artist information on this window. (more…)

We continue our theme that started with the illuminated display of great and classical Christian art in the windows of the former abortion clinic at 827 Webster Street on December 8, 2009. Click here to come up to speed and then page forward.

The most recent painting in our collection is displayed right next to the oldest.  This de Goya was painted in 1785.  It is the first of three annunciations in a row in the three lower (NT) middle windows of the former abortion clinic.

Why?  Because the Incarnation is the central theme of our Christian Faith.  It sets us apart from all other dogmas.  Jews, Moslems, Buddhists, Hindus, Wicca, Marxists, Secularists — they all reject the Incarnation.  We affirm it as the central tenet of our Faith. Jesus is different than all other men ever created, for He was created in Mary’s womb at the command of the Eternal Father, without the aid of a Son of Adam.

Here is more theology on this very important subject — from our soon to be installed Bishop Kevin Rhoades’ Respect Life office (authored by Dr. Paul Schenck).  And more on de Goya and this painting.

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This post continues the “sacred windows” project at the ArchAngel Institute.  We now leave the Old Testament to begin our trip into the New Testament.   

 The first window on the upper (OT) level is Adam and Eve driven from paradise.  From their loins arose Able, Cain and Seth.  The first died as a direct result of sin, the second allowed himself to be taken over by the evil one through sin, and the third was  a child of promise, the promise that the Creator would one day from us all from the ravishes of sin.   
The first window on the lower (New Testament) level likewise pictures a couple.  It celebrates marriage according to God’s design – which must be between a man and a woman.  (That went without being said in the West for 2000 years, but no longer).  
The marriage celebrated in the above window is the marriage of Jesus’ grandparents.   It celebrates Church teaching that is ancient yet as up-to-date as tomorrow’s science.  (more…)

Brother Don Wildmon, the founder and sparkplug for the American Family Association, has had a very difficult year.  He contracted St. Louis encephalitis last summer from an insect bite.  It really set him back.  Just as he was making that difficult climb back to health he was diagnosed with a melanoma of the eyes.  This great friend of the ArchAngel Institute and my (Bryan’s) first post law school employer (I worked as a constitutional law litigator for the AFA for more than six years) really needs our prayers.  He begins chemotherapy Monday, December 28 and nine days thereafter.

Raphael the ArchAngel is a healing Angel, and is on the record as one who heals eyesight.  Click here for that.  There is more than some reason to believe that the ArchAngel Raphael was involved in this Biblical healing font as well as this historic gem, which is likely out of the same water supply.

And so  Anne and I and the ArchAngel Institue Board  invite all friends of the ArchAngel Institute to join us in this prayer for our beloved friend and mentor, Brother Don Wildmon (please pray the blue if your theology does not allow you to pray the red):

NOVENA TO RAPHAEL THE ARCHANGEL (more…)

We have reviewed the four Old Testament windows at the ArchAngel Institute.

To recap, they present THE FALL, THE PROMISE, THE LAW and PROPHECY.

The Fall is the very bad news that creation is not as its Creator willed it to be.  Human choice rejected the Creator’s best.  Eve was deceived, Adam chose to follow her into rebellion against Heaven rather than turn to Heaven and redeem his Bride.

The Promise is that the Creator did not walk away from Earth, but instead began His Plan to redeem Eve and all of her children.  That plan was first witnessed in the animal skins that covered the original nakedness.  It was best revealed in the OT in Isaac on Mount Moriah.

The Law reveals to us our sin.  We all fall short, we all need to be ransomed.  Be it blasphemy, adultery, failure to follow known Revelation, abortion, whatever …. the Law shows us that we need to be rescued, we need a sacrifice.

The Prophecy was the Creator revealing His plan in the OT so that all could recognize the Son of Mary as the Lamb of God.  Any cursory study of the dating of the OT, the dating of the NT and the prophecies fulfilled by Jesus can bring even the most hardened skeptic to Faith.

Do you want that? It can be yours for the asking.

The downstairs window have emblazoned across them these lyrics, which capture the spirit of the age in the centuries before the birth of the Saviour:

O come, O come, Emmanuel,
And ransom captive Israel,
That mourns in lonely exile here
Until the Son of God appear.

Here are more lyrics set to music.

Click here to study this song and appreciate its beauty as sung by Enya (in Latin).

And if you want the gift of Faith, just look up and ask for it.  Your Creator loves you and wants to rescue you.  Draw near to Him and He will draw near to you.  Email us if we can answer any questions that you might have:  archangelinstitute@gmail.org.  Call our 800 line for post abortion healing or other spiritual counsel:  800 399-4620.