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A Mary T. Hoffman Commentary from All-Creatures.org

 

"Joyful Curmudgeon" An oxymoron?
No! I see all the beauty of God's creation and I'm joyful.  At the same time, I see all the suffering and corruption going on in the world, and feel called to help expose and end it so that we may have true peace and compassion.

 

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Archive - Religion
By Mary T. Hoffman

9/11 Five Years Later – 11 September 2006
Advent – 3 December 2006
After the Flood - 27 Jan 2006
A Great Light - 18 Feb 2006
Alexander Pope – 20 December 2007
A Little Bit of Heaven? – 3 March 2008
A Little Child Shall Lead Them – 18 November 2006
Altruism - 5 Feb 2006
Amazing Grace – 4 February 2007
A Message for Good Friday - 14 Apr 2006
Andrew Pell’s Hymns – 21 October 2007
A New Beginning - 13 Apr 2006
“A New Heart and a New Spirit!” – 6 December 2007
Angels – 27 March 2007
Angels (continued) – 28 March 2007
Animal Rites: Liturgies of Animal Care - 15 Mar 2006
Animal Sacrifice – 29 February 2008
Animals in Heaven – 15 February 2009
An Open Letter to Christian Churches – 15 May 2006
An Open Letter to Christian Churches, continued – 16 May 2006
An Open Letter to Christian Churches, conclusion – 17 May 2006
An Open Letter to Hunters – 5 November 2006
Anything to Justify Error – 16 July 2007
A Peaceable Kingdom For Today – 15 July 2007
Applying God’s Word – 12 June 2006
Asking Questions – 19 December 2006
A “Spiritual Plague” – 25 November 2006
A True Act of Compassion – 22 December 2008
A True Rebirth - 4 Apr 2006
Back to God – 23 April 2007
“Be Fruitful and Multiply” – 30 November 2007
Being Led Astray and Loving It – 31 January 2007
Belonging – 3 September 2006
Best Friends – 29 July 2007
Betrayal – 17 September 2007
Betrayal (continued) – 18 September 2007
Betrayal of Founders’ Ideals – 2 September 2006
Betrayal Spreads (continued) – 19 July 2008
Birth Control and Abortion - 9 Mar 2006
Blame the Pigs For E. coli? – 28 October 2006
Blasphemies – 23 December 2008
Blaspheming the Holy Spirit – 30 September 2006
“Blessed Are Those…” – 9 January 2008
Blood Money – 5 August 2007
Born Again – 6 March 2007
Born Again (continued) – 7 March 2007
Born Again (continued) – 8 March 2007
Bread of Life – 26 September 2006
Bullies -14 Mar 2006
“But even the compassion of the wicked is cruel.” – 30 Apr 2006
Celebrate Life! – 31 March 2009
Celebrating the Birth of the Prince of Peace while Worshiping the Prince of Death – 23 December 2007
Change – 11 May 2007
Charles Wesley – 13 February 2007
Cheap Grace - 28 Jan 2006
Chicken Torture – 1 June 2007
Christian Concern For All God’s Creatures – 5 June 2006
Christian Love or Agape - 29 Jan 2006
Christian Perfection – 26 May 2006
Christ is Risen! - 19 April 2009
Christ Is Risen! Truly, He Is Risen! – 23 Apr 2006
Christmas – 25 December 2007
Church Dinners – 5 March 2007
Clutter – 16 January 2007
COMMUNION – 22 March 2008
Compassionate Action Speaks Louder Than Words – 11 April 2007
Compassionate Living – 21 January 2007
Compromise and Corruption – 17 January 2008
Concessions versus Original Intent – 10 June 2006
“Consider the Lilies” – 8 May 2007
Contributing to Evil – 2 August 2008
Corruption in Government and Religion Continues - 9 Apr 2006
Courage – 19 May 2007
Courage to Speak the Truth – 12 May 2006
Cowardly Submissive – 22 January 2007
Creation/Evolution – 6 December 2006
Culture and Tradition - 8 Feb 2006
Decadence – 28 May 2006
Deception – 28 April 2007
Deception in the Churches – 5 August 2006
Deception in the Churches (Continued) – 6 August 2006
Defenders of the Faith? – 3 May 2007
Dirty Politics – 6 January 2008
Discernment – 1 May 2006
Do Dogs Have Souls? – 26 October 2008
Dominion – 24 February 2009
Easter Ham? – 9 April 2009
Emotional Attachment – 25 May 2007
Emotional Attachment (Part 2) – 26 May 2007
Evil - 26 Jan 2006
Evolution – 18 February 2007
Expose the Truth – 21 September 2006
Expose the Truth – 7 January 2007
Facing the Truth - 3 Feb 2006
Familial Bonds – 11 January 2008
“Familiarity Breeds Contempt” – 1 December 2007
Fanatic – 8 December 2006
Father of Lies – 6 October 2008
Fear – 30 December 2006
Fear Makes the World Go 'Round – 25 February 2007
Fear Makes the World Go ’Round (continued) – 26 February 2007
Fear Makes the World Go ’Round (continued) – 28 February 2007
Fear Makes the World Go ’Round (continued) – 1 March 2007
Fear Makes the World Go ’Round (continued) – 2 March 2007
Fear-Mongering – 11 May 2009
Forgiveness – 12 December 2007
Frank’s Sermons - 17 Jan 2006
Free Will - 1 Mar 2006
Friday the Thirteenth – 13 April 2007
Fruit of the Spirit – 2 January 2008
Fulfillment – 9 September 2006
Fur and Faux Fur -13 Feb 2006
Gardens – 5 May 2007
George MacDonald (continued) – 10 September 2007
Giving Thanks and Being Blessed – 22 November 2007
Giving Thanks For What? – 27 November 2008
Glorifying Animal Suffering - 30 Mar 2006
Glorifying Evil in a Fallen World – 15 August 2007
God Listens to Your Care - 13 Jan 2006
God Listens to Your Love - 24 Jan 2006
God Listens When You’re Sad - 18 Jan 2006
God Is Seen In Creation - 25 Mar 2006
God’s Blessings – 10 February 2008
God's Cathedral - 26 Mar 2006
God’s Creatures Ministry – 10 November 2006
God’s Creatures Ministry – 31 August 2007
God’s Gift – 4 May 2006
God’s Grace Continues to Be Cheapened – 23 July 2007
Good Friday – 21 March 2008
Good Old Days? – 1 October 2007
Gossip – 2 November 2007
Great Friday – 6 April 2007
Great Thursday – 5 April 2007
Greek Independence Day – 25 March 2007
Happy Mother’s Day – 14 May 2006
Hardness of Heart – 24 September 2006
Hardness of Heart – 4 June 2007
Hell – 16 March 2007
Hell – 17 February 2008
Holiday Nightmares - 5 Apr 2006
Holiday Observances - 9 Feb 2006
Holidays? Holy Days? – 12 April 2009
Holy Friday and Christian Orthodoxy - 21 Apr 2006
Holy Saturday – 7 April 2007
Hope – 8 November 2007
Horses and Ponies – 4 February 2008
“House of Horror” – 7 December 2007
How Long, Oh Lord? - 12 Mar 2006
Human Benefits from Animal Rights (continued) – 3 June 2006
Humane Farming of Animals? (Continued) – 9 July 2006
Humane Religion – 28 February 2008
Human Future – 22 July 2006
Human Values – 27 December 2007
Hypocrisy – 12 November 2008
Hypocrisy in Singing Hymns – 24 October 2008
Idolatry – 31 December 2006
If Jesus Were on Earth Today – 10 July 2006
I Go to Church to Find Peace; Instead I Find Annoyance and Anger – 7 June 2007
Independence Day - 4 July 2006
In His Image - 23 Feb 2006
Intelligence, Knowledge, and Wisdom – 2 October 2006
Investment – 21 February 2008
Intolerance in the Churches – 24 April 2007
Intelligent Observations – 6 January 2009
Irony – 10 August 2006
Is a Christian Nation Possible? – 21 August 2006
Isaiah – 20 February 2007
“Is God Green?” – 13 October 2006
Is There Logic To The Forbidden Fruit? – 17 May 2008
It Is Better to Err on the Side of Compassion – 28 July 2006
John 14:6 – 19 August 2006
John 14:6 (Continued) – 20 August 2006
Kill and Murder - 12 Feb 2006
Killers – 10 January 2009
Kindness – 28 November 2008
Knowledge and Wisdom – 7 May 2006
Labels – 25 September 2006
Lessons from History - 23 Mar 2006
Life’s Purpose – 8 February 2008
Living Soul – 29 October 2006
Looking the Other Way – 17 May 2007
Lord, Come Now – 6 February 2007
Love and Compassion – 18 January 2009
Love, Fear and Hate - 21 Feb 2006
Love: Fulfillment of the Law – 13 May 2006
Lukewarm – 2 March 2008
Lust of the Flesh – 29 April 2007
Macho – 26 June 2007
Making Christians into Children of Hell – 11 May 2006
Mark of the Beast – 16 September 2006
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day – 15 January 2007
Memorial Day (observed) – 29 May 2006
Memorial Day (observed) – 28 May 2007
Mercy – 8 December 2008
Merry Christmas – 25 December 2006
Mixed Messages – 4 December 2007
More “Cheap Grace”? – 12 September 2007
More Mixed Messages – 16 December 2007
Motivated By Compassion – 20 October 2007
Moving a Mountain – 18 November 2007
Moving a Mountain (Revisited) – 25 October 2008
Moving Mountains - 28 Mar 2006
My Prayer – 8 June 2006
Myths and Idols – 29 September 2006
Never Give Up – 7 February 2008
NOT EVERYONE LOVES CHRISTMAS – 24 December 2007
“Now We See In a Mirror Dimly” – 28 January 2007
Obedience – 23 May 2007
Often the Oppressed Become Oppressors – 29 Apr 2006
Orthodox Christian Resurrection Day (Easter) – 27 April 2008
Out of Darkness into Light – 21 July 2007
Out of Sight, Out of Mind (continued) – 11 February 2007
Palm Sunday– 1 April 2007
Palm Sunday – 16 March 2008
Palm Sunday – 5 April 2009
Pastor Oxymoron - 31 Jan 2006
Personalities – 24 June 2006
Pet Loss From a Christian Perspective – 20 June 2007
Picture This – 22 May 2007
Politics and Emotions - 11 Mar 2006
Politics and Religion – 9 November 2007
Power - 11 Apr 2006
Power Corrupts (Continued) – 25 October 2006
Power Corrupts (Continued) – 27 October 2006
Power, Love, Self-Control – 29 January 2008
Progress – 1 October 2006
Pro-Life? – 22 August 2006
Pro-Life and Politics – 23 August 2006
Pro-life or Pro-death? – 13 February 2008
Psychopathology – 25 June 2007
Questioning -7 Feb 2006
Quiet or Sneaky? – 16 October 2007
Quotations - 20 Apr 2006
Rapture – 13 November 2008
Real Food for Thought – 21 January 2009
Reformation Day – 31 October 2006
Religion – 8 December 2007
Religion and Character – 17 September 2006
Responsibility – 6 October 2006
Resurrection - 16 Apr 2006
Resurrection Day – 23 March 2008
Resurrection Day – 8 April 2007
Revelation - 24 Feb 2006
Revelation – 14 January 2007
“Rod of Iron” – 28 November 2006
Salvation and Wellness – 3 February 2007
Satan’s Minions Win a Battle – 14 November 2006
Saved? – 16 June 2006
Selective Psychopathology? – 9 May 2006
Separation of Church and State – 17 December 2006
Serial Killer Training – 21 October 2008
Shark Oil / Snake Oil: Hucksters Won’t Give Up! – 1 September 2006
Sidney Lanier – 24 March 2008
Spiritual Blindness – 28 January 2008
Spiritual Intelligence – 16 February 2008
Stumbling Blocks - 19 Feb 2006
Stumbling Blocks – 10 January 2008
Temporal and Eternal Life – 31 January 2008
Thank God – 23 March 2007
The Amazon – 13 January 2007
The Apostle Paul – 30 July 2007
THE BARD – 14 August 2008
The Bible – 27 April 2007
The Bible and William Blake – 13 August 2006
The Business of Religion – 25 November 2007
The Disconnect – 20 November 2007
The “Either/Or” Mentality – 14 July 2007
The Fate of the Prophets – 6 November 2008
The Father of Lies - 5 Mar 2006
The Father of Lies – 26 April 2007
The First Two Commandments – 16 February 2007
The Golden Rule – 28 December 2008
The High Cost of Disease - 26 Feb 2006
The Holy Spirit's Prompting - 9 Feb 2008
The Kingdom of Heaven - 27 Mar 2006
The Lord’s Prayer – 20 February 2008
“The More Things Change…” – 2 September 2007
There Ought to Be a Holiday… – 3 March 2007
The Search to Justify – 30 June 2007
The Sermon on the Mount – 9 October 2006
The Sermon on the Mount (continued) – 10 October 2006
The Sermon on the Mount (continued) – 11 October 2006
The Sermon on the Mount (Continued) – 12 October 2006
The Sermon on the Mount (Continued) – 14 October 2006
The Sermon on the Mount (Continued) – 15 October 2006
The Sermon on the Mount (Continued) – 16 October 2006
The Sermon on the Mount (Continued) – 17 October 2006
The Sermon on the Mount (Continued) - 18 October 2006
The Sermon on the Mount (Continued) – 20 October 2006
The Sermon on the Mount (Continued) – 21 October 2006
The Sermon on the Mount (Continued) – 22 October 2006
The Sermon on the Mount (Continued) – 23 October 2006
The Truth Will Set You Free – 11 October 2008
THE VOICE OF GOD – 15 June 2007
The Whale – 13 December 2006
The Wheat and the Tares – 20 March 2007
THE WHEAT AND THE TARES – 11 August 2008
The World – 5 August 2008
They Know Not What They Do – 3 June 2008
’Tis the Morning after Christmas – 26 December 2006
Thought for Today – 28 September 2008
Thought for Today – 2 October 2008
Thought for Today – 19 October 2008
Today’s Thought – 31 December 2008
Torturing a Bull for Saint John – 31 May 2007
TO THE HOLY SPIRIT – 29 September 2007
Transformative Prayer – 28 January 2009
Trivializing the Truth – 22 June 2007
True Theocracy – 24 August 2006
Truth Is Universal – 16 July 2006
Turning Away From The Truth – 13 July 2007
Ultimate Betrayal – 7 September 2008
“Unclean Spirit” – 24 January 2007
Valentine’s Day - 14 Feb 2006
VESTIGIA – 9 July 2007
Veterans Day – 11 November 2007
“Wars and Rumors of Wars” – 18 July 2006
We Will All Benefit – 3 May 2006
What Is “Normal”? – 2 December 2007
What Would Jesus Think of Present-Day Christians? – 11 July 2006
What Would Jesus Think of Present-Day Christians? (Part 2) – 12 July 2006
What Would Jesus Think of Present-Day Christians? (Conclusion) – 13 July 2006
Wheat and Tares – 3 December 2007
Wheat and Tares – 12 April 2008
When Religion Teams Up With the Devil – 31 July 2008
Where's the Beef? - 1 April 2006
Who Are Saints? – 1 November 2006
“Who is My mother and who are My brothers?” – 23 January 2007
Wholeness? – 11 January 2007
Why? – 10 February 2009
Why Be Ashamed? – 13 July 2008
Why Vegan? – 19 August 2007
Without Excuse – 8 May 2006
Works and Changes - 2 Feb 2006
Y2K Remembered – 29 December 2006
World Vegetarian Day – 1 October 2008

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