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		<title>Challenging Church Compassion – 22: Chased Away “JL”</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Challenging Church Compassion – 22: Chased Away “JL” We are constantly hearing from people about their unhappy encounters with hard of heart Christians and churches when it comes to caring about the God-given wellbeing of animals that they should have, instead of being abused by animal exploiters and people’s indifferent attitude. JL wrote (in part): [...]</p><p>The post <a href="http://www.all-creatures.org/blog/challenging-church-compassion-22-chased-away-jl/">Challenging Church Compassion – 22: Chased Away “JL”</a> appeared first on <a href="http://www.all-creatures.org/blog">all-creatures.org blog</a>.</p>]]></description>
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		<title>Challenging Church Compassion – 21: Christian Bowhunters</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2013 19:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Challenging Church Compassion – 21: Christian Bowhunters an Oxymoron These comments are in response to the article: Christian Bowhunters use archery as a way to spread the word about God by Beth Slaughter Sexton. Bryan White, the founder of the local group in Georgia, is quoted in the article as saying, &#8220;All of us were [...]</p><p>The post <a href="http://www.all-creatures.org/blog/challenging-church-compassion-21-christian-bowhunters/">Challenging Church Compassion – 21: Christian Bowhunters</a> appeared first on <a href="http://www.all-creatures.org/blog">all-creatures.org blog</a>.</p>]]></description>
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		<title>Challenging Church Compassion – 20: Kicked Out for Animal Beliefs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 14:14:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Challenging Church Compassion – 20: Kicked Out for Animal Beliefs On 3 June 2013 Mark Anthony DiBello www.markanthonydibello.com sent us the following comments about the indifference of churches to the suffering of animals and the people who care about them. &#8220;In the beginning… Do you know that in one version of Scripture, the Lord God created animals before He created [...]</p><p>The post <a href="http://www.all-creatures.org/blog/challenging-church-compassion-20-kicked-out-for-animal-beliefs/">Challenging Church Compassion – 20: Kicked Out for Animal Beliefs</a> appeared first on <a href="http://www.all-creatures.org/blog">all-creatures.org blog</a>.</p>]]></description>
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		<title>Challenging Church Compassion – 19: Chased Away “E”</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 13:16:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Challenging Church Compassion – 19: Chased Away “E” This is another case where the lack of compassion and hardness of heart in the church chased away a believer and even cause this person to lose some of their faith. We must keep challenging church compassion, as the church sees it, until it becomes true and [...]</p><p>The post <a href="http://www.all-creatures.org/blog/challenging-church-compassion-19-chased-away-e/">Challenging Church Compassion – 19: Chased Away “E”</a> appeared first on <a href="http://www.all-creatures.org/blog">all-creatures.org blog</a>.</p>]]></description>
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		<title>Challenging Church Compassion – 18: Michelle’s View</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 19:17:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Challenging Church Compassion – 18: Michelle’s View Our challenging church compassion is to present the true intent of our Father in heaven to live as loving, compassionate, and peacemaking children of God as a witness against the hardness of heart and the very limited compassion that sensitive people see in most churches. We received the [...]</p><p>The post <a href="http://www.all-creatures.org/blog/challenging-church-compassion-18-michelles-view/">Challenging Church Compassion – 18: Michelle’s View</a> appeared first on <a href="http://www.all-creatures.org/blog">all-creatures.org blog</a>.</p>]]></description>
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		<title>Challenging Church Compassion – 17: Christian Cruelty</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Challenging Church Compassion – 17: Christian Cruelty Christian cruelty is most often witnessed or perceived when it involves the way the Church and their parishioners relate to animals.  Almost every day we hear from people who has been deeply troubled and often emotionally scarred by the hardness of heart they&#8217;ve encountered within the church. For [...]</p><p>The post <a href="http://www.all-creatures.org/blog/challenging-church-compassion-17-christian-cruelty/">Challenging Church Compassion – 17: Christian Cruelty</a> appeared first on <a href="http://www.all-creatures.org/blog">all-creatures.org blog</a>.</p>]]></description>
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		<title>Challenging Church Compassion – 16: Chased Away “Barb”</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 21:39:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Challenging Church Compassion – 16: Chased Away “Barb” Barb is another one of the people who have been a part of our compassionate ministry. She points out how much real spiritual damage the hardness of heart and the lack of church compassion in the churches can do, and how far they can push people away. She [...]</p><p>The post <a href="http://www.all-creatures.org/blog/challenging-church-compassion-16-chased-away-barb/">Challenging Church Compassion – 16: Chased Away “Barb”</a> appeared first on <a href="http://www.all-creatures.org/blog">all-creatures.org blog</a>.</p>]]></description>
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		<title>Challenging Church Compassion – 15: Chasing Away “S”</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 20:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Challenging Church Compassion – 15: Chasing Away “S” Today we received the following letter from “S”, which clearly shows how the insensitivity of church leaders is chasing away people who care about animals and don’t eat them. “S” wrote: “I have been reading the series of articles on your website about compassionate people being chased [...]</p><p>The post <a href="http://www.all-creatures.org/blog/challenging-church-compassion-15-chasing-away-s/">Challenging Church Compassion – 15: Chasing Away “S”</a> appeared first on <a href="http://www.all-creatures.org/blog">all-creatures.org blog</a>.</p>]]></description>
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		<title>Challenging Church Compassion – 14: Chased Away “A”</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 15:39:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Challenging Church Compassion – 14: Chased Away “A” We recently received a very sad but interesting email from “A” that shows the harm that churches are doing because of their hardness of heart; thus, we believe that this is another reason for challenging church compassion. From “A’s” perspective, the church is too interested in killing [...]</p><p>The post <a href="http://www.all-creatures.org/blog/challenging-church-compassion-14-chased-away-a/">Challenging Church Compassion – 14: Chased Away “A”</a> appeared first on <a href="http://www.all-creatures.org/blog">all-creatures.org blog</a>.</p>]]></description>
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		<title>Challenging Church Compassion – 13: Chased Away “JW”</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Challenging Church Compassion – 13: Chased Away “JW” This Challenging Church Compassion post is about the second church in which JW was involved. If you haven’t read about the previous church JW told us about, please do so before reading this one: Challenging Church Compassion – 12: Chased Away “JW” JW wrote: “The other is [...]</p><p>The post <a href="http://www.all-creatures.org/blog/challenging-church-compassion-13-chased-away-jw/">Challenging Church Compassion – 13: Chased Away “JW”</a> appeared first on <a href="http://www.all-creatures.org/blog">all-creatures.org blog</a>.</p>]]></description>
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