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Challenging Church Compassion – 08: Chased Away “L”

Challenging Church Compassion – 08: Chased Away “L” Almost every day we receive emails, letters, or see postings from compassionate people who care deeply about animals who were chased away from church by the church’s hardness of heart. One of these was “L” who wrote: “I stopped going to Church a while ago after I […]

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Challenging Church Compassion – 07: Plight of Animals

Challenging Church Compassion – 07: Plight of Animals The following article is an editorial written by one of our Directors, Betsy Wosko, which is titled: Churches are Ignoring the Plight of Animals, and we need to keep addressing the plight of animals until their suffering and exploitation ends. “While churches today do well in helping […]

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Challenging Church Compassion – 06: Chased Away “J”

Challenging Church Compassion – 06: Chased Away “J” The following is a very sad story about the emotional abuse instead of compassion coming from the church that eventually chased away this woman. “I worked for the Catholic Church for six years, and didn’t see any movement to defend animals. The parish I worked at was […]

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Challenging Church Compassion – 04: Lying Priest

Challenging Church Compassion – 04: Lying Priest A Priest of God or a Priest of Satan? – Continued Let’s go on and see what else this priest says and teaches: “He has told farming parishioners it is okay to lie about whether their wool comes from mulesed sheep, so prices are not forced down by […]

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Challenging Church Compassion – 03: Mulesing Sheep

Challenging Church Compassion – 03: Mulesing Sheep A Priest of God or a Priest of Satan? Sometimes clergy are not so silent in their support of violence and cruelty.  Such is the case of Father Mick MacAndrew who openly supports the cruel practice of mulesing sheep. Let’s take a look at what was reported in […]

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Challenging Church Compassion – 02: Love of Fishing

Challenging Church Compassion – 02: Love of Fishing A Love of Fishing Causes Emotional Violence People are constantly writing to us about how emotionally shocked and upset they become at the church’s hardness of heart when it comes to the suffering of animals.  The following letter from Jenny Moxham is one of these examples: “My […]

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Challenging Church Compassion – 01: It’s Limited

Challenging Church Compassion – 01: It’s Limited In this series, we are challenging church compassion, because for the most part it doesn’t go far enough. It’s limited! An example of the churches limiting their compassion is when it comes to animal issues and the people who care about them. Almost every day we receive letters […]

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Living in the Will of God – 09 Lovingkindness

Living in the Will of God – 09 Lovingkindness In part 08 of this blog series we talked about hardness of heart, and the fact that many of the churches through their silence, complacency, and indifference to the suffering of animals helps keep the problems alive. The opposite of hardness of heart is what the […]

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People See When We’re Transformed

People See When We’re Transformed A Sermon Delivered to The Compassion Internet Church 10 February 2013 Frank L. Hoffman, Pastor Scripture References: Exodus 34:29-35 Isaiah 6:8 Luke 9:28-43 2 Corinthians 3:12–4:2 Ephesians 2:10 Philippians 4:13 This is Transfiguration Sunday, which celebrates the transfiguration of Jesus on the mountain, but it should also speak to us […]

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Forgiveness Without Sacrifice – Part 08

Forgiveness Without Sacrifice – Part 08 In this part of our  study of the forgiveness of sins without the need for an animal sacrifice, we  will take a look at the story of a paralytic who was healed by Jesus.  This  story is recorded in three Gospels: Matthew 9:1-8, Mark 2:1-12, and Luke  5:17-26. As […]

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