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"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.

 

Archive - By Subject
By Mary T. Hoffman

People

Abolitionist Approach – 22 June 2008
Abraham Lincoln – 12 February 2008
Abraham Lincoln – 12 February 2009
Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday – 12 February 2007
A Few Words of Wisdom – 12 January 2007
Albert Schweitzer – 24 July 2206
Alexander Pope – 20 December 2007
Amelia Josephine Burr – 7 April 2009
Archibald Lampman – 28 May 2008
A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss – 17 July 2008
Arthur Schopenhauer – 2 December 2008
Betrayal – 28 August 2006
Betrayal of Founders’ Ideals – 2 September 2006
Bill Moyers – 25 June 2006
Bullies - 14 March 2006
Carl Sandburg – 20 August 2008
Celebrities – 27 August 2006
Celebrities - 16 April 2007
Charles Wesley – 13 February 2007
“Common” Sense? – 7 November 2006
COMMUNION – 22 March 2008
Coretta Scott King – 30 January 2009
Custodians of the Planet – 25 February 2009
Dave Warwak: A True Hero – 7 October 2007
David Cantor – 23 May 2006
Dr. Will and Madeleine Tuttle – 25 August 2007
Edna St. Vincent Millay – 23 September 2008
Ella Wheeler Wilcox – 24 May 2008
Emerson’s Quotations about Poets and Poetry – 23 October 2008
Emile Zola – 13 February 2009
Emily Dickinson – 26 March 2008
Emma Willard – 17 November 2006
Eugene Field – 8 February 2009
Fitness – 8 October 2006
Frank’s Birthday – 30 April 2007
Fulfillment – 9 September 2006
Fyodor Dostoyevsky – 30 August 2008
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) – 27 July 2008
George MacDonald – 9 September 2007
George MacDonald (continued) – 10 September 2007
George Washington – 22 February 2008
Gerald R. Ford – 4 January 2007
Good Quotations – 12 March 2008
Good Quotes – 30 March 2008
Greek Independence Day – 25 March 2008
Happy Valentine’s Day, Frank! – 14 February 2007
Health – 8 September 2008
Heroes of Positive Change - 15 Jan 2006
H. G. Wells – 27 October 2008
HOME, SWEET HOME! – 5 March 2008
Hope – 22 February 2009
H.O.P.E. with Anthony Marr – 6 September 2006
Humane? – 3 February 2009
Human Future – 22 July 2006
Humphrey Primatt – 14 January 2009
Intelligent Observations – 6 January 2009
Isaiah – 20 February 2007
James Russell Lowell – 13 September 2007
James Shirley – 11 February 2008
Jean-Jacques Rousseau – 15 November 2008
Jenny Moxham – A True Hero - 14 Jan 2006
Jim Robertson – 19 June 2007
John Bunyan – 7 February 2009
John Greenleaf Whittier – 18 October 2007
John McDougall, M.D. – 30 June 2006
John Milton – 20 July 2008
John Stuart Mill – 30 October 2008
J. R. Hyland – 1 June 2008
Kill and Murder - 12 Feb 2006
Lady Bird Johnson – 12 July 2007
Lance Landall – 6 August 2008
Lance Landall’s Poetry – 6 November 2007
Letter about Michael Vick and Hypocrites – 5 September 2007
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day – 15 January 2007
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day – 19 January 2009
Matthew Arnold – 29 August 2008
Meat-Out 2008 – 9 March 2008
Merry Christmas! – 25 December 2008
Michael Greger, M.D. – 12 March 2007
Michael A. Klaper, M.D. – 29 March 2009
Michael Klaper, M.D. – 13 March 2009
More Fun: Breakfast with Boggle - 8 Mar 2006
More Words of Wisdom – 13 April 2008
Mozart - 4 Feb 2006
Nikiphσros Vrettαkos – 23 August 2008
Our 45th Wedding Anniversary – 7 July 2007
Paul Harvey (1918 – 2009) – 11 April 2009
Percy Bysshe Shelley – 1 March 2008
Personalities – 24 June 2006
Pity – 5 March 2009
Poetry by Belinda van Rensburg – 10 July 2008
President Barack Obama – 20 January 2009
Quotations about Animals – 2 July 2008
Quotations by Bliss Carman – 28 August 2007
Ralph Waldo Emerson – 19 April 2007
Ralph Waldo Emerson (continued) – 20 April 2007
Ralph Waldo Emerson – 31 January 2009
Resistance to Change – 29 November 2008
Robert Browning – 4 April 2009
Robert Frost – 3 January 2008
Romain Rolland – 25 April 2008
Samuel Longfellow – 25 May 2008
Sara Teasdale – 5 May 2009
Selling Out – 3 July 2006
SHE DWELT AMONG THE UNTRODDEN WAYS – 4 October 2008
She Walks In Beauty – 15 March 2008
She Was a Phantom of Delight – 23 June 2008
Sidney Lanier – 24 March 2008
Slavery – 6 April 2008
Socrates – 1 May 2007
Some Thoughts on Vivisection – 26 March 2009
Some Words of Wisdom from Albert Einstein – 8 April 2008
Spring and the Meatout - 20 Mar 2006
Teaching Children Kindness – 21 July 2008
Thankfulness – 24 November 2006
The Humor of Dan Piraro – 5 July 2007
THEN SILENCE - 2 Apr 2006
The Poetry of Andrew Pell – 20 September 2007
Thomas Fuller and Roy Fuller – 20 February 2009
Thought for Today – 28 July 2008
Thought for Today – 4 August 2008
Thought for Today – 7 August 2008
Thought for Today – 13 August 2008
Thought for Today – 18 August 2008
Thought for Today – 24 August 2008
Thought for Today – 12 September 2008
Thought for Today – 18 September 2008
Thought for Today – 2 October 2008
Thought for Today – 19 October 2008
Thought for Today – 10 November 2008
Thought for Today – 16 November 2008
Thoughts for Today – 17 June 2008
Thoughts for Today – 8 July 2008
Thoughts for Today – 12 July 2008
Thoughts for Today – 16 September 2008
Today’s Quotations – 3 February 2009
Today’s Thought – 16 December 2008
Today’s Thought – 31 December 2008
Today’s Thoughts – 24 July 2008
Today’s Thoughts – 10 August 2008
Today’s Thoughts – 15 October 2008
Truth – 19 March 2009
United Poultry Concerns – 13 August 2007
VENI CREATOR – 3 May 2008
Vivisection – 21 August 2008
Walt Whitman – 9 June 2008
Washington’s Birthday – 22 February 2007
William Blake – 6 June 2008
William Bliss Carman – 2 April 2007
William Wordsworth – 21 April 2009
Will Tuttle, Ph.D. - 2 Mar 2006
Wise Words – 19 June 2008
Wise Words – 5 January 2009
Words of Wisdom – 26 February 2008
Words of Wisdom – 26 August 2008
Words of Wisdom – 3 September 2008
Words of Wisdom – 20 April 2009

Photography

Blue-eyed Grass – 19 May 2006
Day Before Christmas – 24 December 2006
Deer - 3 Apr 2006
Fog - 6 Feb 2006
The Beauty of Winter – 17 December 2007
Winter Wonderland - 23 Jan 2006

Poetry

4-H Boy - 6 Apr 2006
9/11 Six Years Later – 11 September 2007
9/11 Seven Years Later – 11 September 2008
A CHILD’S THOUGHT OF GOD – 15 February 2008
A CRADLE SONG – 16 August 2008
Adoration – 7 March 2009
A Few Snowflakes – 18 November 2008
Alexander Pope – 20 December 2007
Alice Brown – 16 January 2009
Amelia Josephine Burr – 7 April 2009
American Wild Mint – 7 August 2006
A New Beginning - 13 Apr 2006
A Noiseless Patient Spider – 1 July 2008
Happy New Year! – 1 January 2009
A Perfect Day – 6 March 2008
“Aprilian” – 3 April 2007
April Poems – 21 April 2007
April Rain – 28 Apr 2006
A PSALM OF LIFE – 13 October 2007
Archibald Lampman – 28 May 2008
A True Rebirth - 4 Apr 2006
Autumn – 23 September 2006
AUTUMN – 22 September 2008
Autumn Glory – 23 October 2007
AUTUMN GREY by Jenny Moxham – 24 September 2007
A Vagabond Song – 23 September 2007
Back to God – 23 April 2007
Beauty and Truth? – 26 Apr 2006
Better Than Music – 10 April 2008
Blessings of Autumn – 7 November 2007
Carl Sandburg – 20 August 2008
COMMUNION – 22 March 2008
“Consider the Lilies” – 8 May 2007
CONSTANT – 12 January 2008
Corruption in Government and Religion Continues - 9 Apr 2006
Cries and Lies - 18 Apr 2006
CROWN OF CREATION – 17 August 2008
Daffodils - 24 Mar 2006
Daybreak – 26 April 2009
Defenders of the Faith? – 3 May 2007
December Snow – 19 December 2008
Early December – 3 December 2008
Early Morning – 6 June 2007
Earth Day – 22 April 2007
Edna St. Vincent Millay – 23 September 2008
Edwin Markham – 26 December 2008
Elizabeth Barrett Browning – 3 January 2009
Ella Wheeler Wilcox – 24 May 2008
Ella Wheeler Wilcox – 8 January 2009
Emerson’s Quotations about Poets and Poetry – 23 October 2008
Emily Dickinson – 26 March 2008
Emily Dickinson – 30 March 2009
Emma Willard – 17 November 2006
EPITAPH TO A DOG – 8 April 2009
FABLE – 4 March 2008
FACES – 2 July 2006
FAITH – 13 September 2008
First Day of Spring – 20 March 2008
Flag Day – 14 June 2007
FLOWERS – 8 August 2008
Fog – 4 October 2006
Forsythias - 10 Apr 2006
FRAGMENT – 15 September 2008
Frances Ridley Havergal – 27 December 2008
Frank’s Birthday – 30 April 2007
Fulfillment – 9 September 2006
Gardens – 5 May 2007
GENTLENESS – 29 May 2008
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) – 27 July 2008
God Bless Your Home – 27 August 2008
God Is Seen In Creation - 25 Mar 2006
God's Cathedral - 26 Mar 2006
Goldfinch and Chickadee – 29 July 2006
Good Friday – 21 March 2008
Greek Independence Day – 25 March 2008
Greek Independence Day – 25 March 2009
Happy Father’s Day – 15 June 2008
“Happy” Meat? – 16 July 2008
Happy Mother’s Day? – 13 May 2007
Happy Valentine’s Day! – 14 February 2009
Happy Valentine’s Day, Frank! – 14 February 2007
Hard Frost Warning – 28 October 2007
HOME, SWEET HOME! – 5 March 2008
Hope – 8 November 2007
Hope is a Subtle Glutton – 13 April 2009
Hope Is the Thing with Feathers – 18 January 2008
How Do I Love Thee? – 14 February 2008
How I Love These Autumn Days! – 16 November 2007
HYMN TO THE NIGHT – 12 October 2007
ICE – 10 December 2007
Ice Storm – 17 January 2007
I Died For Beauty – 9 December 2008
INSPIRATION – 15 December 2008
IT DROPPED SO LOW – 10 September 2008
I Thought How Once Theocritus Had Sung – 18 December 2007
James Russell Lowell – 13 September 2007
James Shirley – 11 February 2008
Jenny Moxham – A True Hero - 14 Jan 2006
John Greenleaf Whittier – 18 October 2007
John Milton – 20 July 2008
Joyce Kilmer – 13 May 2009
June and Wild Roses – 11 June 2006
Lance Landall – 6 August 2008
Lance Landall’s Poetry – 6 November 2007
Last Day of November – 30 November 2006
Leaf Peepers, Rejoice! – 16 October 2008
Leaf Peeping – 19 October 2006
Leisure – 19 July 2006
Lilacs in Poetry – 6 May 2006
Little Things – 31 July 2007
Living Soul – 29 October 2006
Lord, Come Now – 6 February 2007
Matthew Arnold – 29 August 2008
Memorial Day (observed) – 26 May 2008
Memorial Day (traditional) – 30 May 2006
Memorial Day (traditional) – 30 May 2007
Memorial Day (traditional) – 30 May 2008
Merry Christmas! – 25 December 2008
Milton’s Prayer of Patience – 16 November 2006
Miracles – 20 June 2008
Missing – 19 May 2008
More “Bliss” – 4 April 2007
My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold – 25 Apr 2006
My Prayer – 8 June 2006
Nature – 14 April 2007
Nikiphσros Vrettαkos – 23 August 2008
NO! – 1 November 2007
No Guts, No Glory – 29 April 2008
NOT EVERYONE LOVES CHRISTMAS – 24 December 2007
Not In Vain – 28 June 2006
NOVEMBER – 27 November 2007
Obedience – 23 May 2007
Of All the Souls – 4 March 2009
Our 45th Wedding Anniversary – 7 July 2006
Our 47th Wedding Anniversary – 7 July 2008
OUR LORD’S COMPASSION – 6 September 2008
Peace on Earth – 13 May 2008
Percy Bysshe Shelley – 1 March 2008
Poetry by Belinda van Rensburg – 10 July 2008
Power - 11 Apr 2006
Praise – 2 November 2006
PROVIDENCE – 18 July 2007
Raindrops - 11 Feb 2006
Ralph Waldo Emerson – 19 April 2007
Rapture – 13 November 2008
Record Autumn Heat – 26 September 2007
Resurrection Day – 8 April 2007
RIGHT RULE – 14 October 2008
Robert Browning – 4 April 2009
Robert Frost – 3 January 2008
Samuel Longfellow – 25 May 2008
Sara Teasdale – 5 May 2009
Seasons - 17 Apr 2006
Seventy – 3 November 2007
SHE DWELT AMONG THE UNTRODDEN WAYS – 4 October 2008
She Walks In Beauty – 15 March 2008
She Was a Phantom of Delight – 23 June 2008
Sidney Lanier – 24 March 2008
Silence – 14 July 2008
Simplicity – 9 June 2006
Skiing in Heaven? – 2 August 2006
SNOWFLAKES – 24 December 2008
Snowy Silence – 21 December 2008
Song on May Morning – 2 May 2009
Spring Beauty – 18 May 2007
Spring Snow – 15 April 2007
SUBSTITUTION – 17 December 2008
SUCCESS IS COUNTED SWEETEST – 25 November 2008
Summer – 21 June 2006
Take Time – 12 December 2006
Thank God – 23 March 2007
THE ANCIENT SAGE – 6 December 2008
THE BARD – 14 August 2008
The Bible and William Blake – 13 August 2006
THE CHILD’S QUESTION – 16 February 2009
The Chipmunk – 22 May 2006
THE CLEANEST THING IN CREATION – 2 September 2008
The Dandelion - 19 Apr 2006
THE DAY IS DONE – 8 October 2007
THE ETERNAL GOODNESS – 25 February 2008
The Fate of the Prophets – 6 November 2008
THE FOUNTAIN – 6 February 2009
THE GOD OF THE LIVING – 23 November 2008
The Good Old Days -1 Feb 2006
THE HAPPY TREE – 18 April 2009
The Immortal Mind – 10 April 2009
The Life We Have Is Very Great – 7 December 2008
The Mountains Stood in Haze – 1 August 2008
THEN SILENCE - 2 Apr 2006
The Old Stoic – 2 June 2007
The Old Stoic – 9 February 2009
The Outdoors – 7 May 2007
“The Out-Doors Man” – 9 November 2008
The Poetry of Andrew Pell – 20 September 2007
The Poetry of Earth Is Never Dead – 21 April 2008
THERE CAME A WIND LIKE A BUGLE – 29 September 2008
There Is No Unbelief – 10 May 2008
These Are the Days When Birds Come Back – 18 May 2008
“The Sky Is Low, the Clouds Are Mean” – 9 March 2007
The Slaughtermen of Bassatin - 4 March 2006
THE SLEEP – 28 September 2007
“The Snowman in the Yard” – 17 February 2007
THE SNOW-SHOWER – 15 December 2007
The Soul Selects Her Own Society – 2 May 2008
The Storm – 21 May 2006
THE VOICE OF GOD – 15 June 2007
THE WHEAT AND THE TARES – 11 August 2008
The World Below the Brine – 12 June 2008
“The World Is Too Much With Us” – 14 May 2007
THIS IS MY LETTER TO THE WORLD – 11 January 2009
Thomas Hood – 9 May 2009
THRENODY FOR A POET – 29 May 2007
Thunderstorms – 16 August 2007
Tigers (continued) – 15 August 2006
’Tis the Morning after Christmas – 26 December 2006
TO A WATERFOWL – 23 June 2007
TO SPRING – 20 April 2008
TO THE HOLY SPIRIT – 29 September 2007
TO THE MOON – 20 October 2008
VENI CREATOR – 3 May 2008
VESTIGIA – 9 July 2007
Walt Whitman – 9 June 2008
Washington’s Birthday – 22 February 2007
Was It Worth It? – 24 November 2007
We Learned the Whole of Love – 30 November 2008
We Like March – 11 March 2009
When I Heard the Learned Astronomer – 30 June 2008
Who’s the Psychopath? - 22 Apr 2006
Wild Roses, Buttercups, and Daisies – 9 June 2007
William Blake – 6 June 2008
William Bliss Carman – 2 April 2007
William Shakespeare – 20 March 2009
William Wordsworth – 21 April 2009
Winter Is Good – 26 February 2009
Winter Wonderland - 23 Jan 2006
Winter Wonderland – 14 December 2007

Religion

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

Vegetarianism / Veganism

101 Reasons – 22 March 2007
Abolitionist Approach – 22 June 2008
Albert Schweitzer – 24 July 2206
A Little Bit of Heaven? – 3 March 2008
Animal Ingredients A to Z - 18 Mar 2006
Another Reason to Go Vegan – 7 April 2008
Apricots and Blueberries – 10 July 2007
A True Act of Compassion – 22 December 2008
A True Rebirth - 4 Apr 2006
Back to the Farm Market – 15 May 2007
Bacterial Cross-Contamination – 9 December 2006
Be Patriotic: Go Vegan – 6 July 2008
Black Radish - 12 Apr 2006
Blame the Pigs For E. coli? – 28 October 2006
Blueberries and Apricots – 14 July 2006
Cancer – 22 June 2006
Classical Music and Vegan Vittles – 27 September 2006
Compassion Is the Key – 12 March 2009
Cooking a Curry – 5 February 2009
Coretta Scott King – 30 January 2009
Cults – 13 June 2006
Diet and Sex – 22 November 2008
Diet by Design – 3 August 2006
Easy Way to Stay Slim and Healthy For Life – 2 April 2009
Election Day – 4 November 2008
Everything in Moderation? – 14 December 2006
Evil - 26 Jan 2006
Flexitarian? 25 Jan 2006
Food for Life – 22 January 2009
Fun With Favorite Recipes - 31 Mar 2006
Giving Thanks and Being Blessed – 22 November 2007
Going Green – 3 July 2008
Going Vegan Saves Money – 31 October 2007
Having Fun and Learning, Too! – 16 September 2007
Health and Disease - 25 Feb 2006
HIPPO – 18 March 2008
Hoffman Helpful Hint: Easy Chili – 27 February 2008
Hoffman Helpful Hint: Easy Chili Made Even Easier – 15 April 2008
Hoffman Helpful Hint: Pasta Primavera – 19 March 2008
Interview by International Vegetarian Union – 13 June 2007
Intolerance in the Churches – 24 April 2007
Investment – 21 February 2008
Irony – 10 August 2006
Joy – 24 June 2008
Kitchen Fun – 7 January 2009
Letters and Responses – 4 September 2007
Letter to AARP – 16 May 2008
Letting Businesses Know Our Opinions – 5 December 2007
Locally Grown Produce – 9 August 2006
Longevity - 10 Mar 2006
Meat-Out 2008 – 9 March 2008
More Fun: Breakfast with Boggle - 8 Mar 2006
More Fun Cooking - 8 Apr 2006
More Kitchen Fun – 23 January 2009
New Year’s Resolutions – 2 January 2009
No Noodles – 30 March 2007
Off to the Farm Market Again – 31 August 2006
Of Salads and Old Tapes - 13 Mar 2006
Priorities and Character - 30 Jan 2006
Protein – 18 April 2007
Simply Vegan – 5 May 2006
Some Words of Wisdom from Albert Einstein – 8 April 2008
Sound Familiar? – 3 June 2007
Spicy Pasta with Peanut Sauce – 16 June 2008
Spring and the Meatout - 20 Mar 2006
Teaching Children Kindness – 21 July 2008
Thank God – 23 March 2007
The Best Diet – 26 July 2006
The Best New Year’s Resolution – 1 January 2008
The Date People – 12 August 2006
The High Cost of Disease - 26 Feb 2006
The Humor of Dan Piraro – 5 July 2007
The Ideal Diet – 25 April 2009
The Many Blessings of a Vegan Lifestyle – 22 September 2007
Thought for Today – 7 August 2008
Thought for Today – 19 October 2008
Thought for Today – 10 November 2008
Today’s Thought – 16 December 2008
Variety Is the Spice of Life – 10 November 2007
Veganic Organic Farming – 11 December 2008
Vegan Organic – 7 August 2007
Vegan Shopping – 19 March 2007
Vegetarian Expo – 14 September 2008
“Vegetarian is the New Prius” – 21 May 2008
Wheat and Tares – 3 December 2007
Why Aren't You Vegan? – 18 March 2007
Why Be Ashamed? – 13 July 2008
Why Vegan? – 19 August 2007
Why Vegan? – 27 January 2009
Will Tuttle, Ph.D. - 2 Mar 2006
World Vegetarian Day – 1 October 2008

Violence

9/11 Five Years Later – 11 September 2006
9/11 Six Years Later – 11 September 2007
Addiction to Evil – 12 June 2007
Animal Abuse and Human Violence – 14 September 2007
Animal Abuse and Human Violence (continued) – 15 September 2007
Belonging – 3 September 2006
Bullies -14 Mar 2006
Chicken Torture – 1 June 2007
Comedy? – 17 July 2006
Consequences of Denial – 30 July 2006
Consequences of Denial, Part II – 31 July 2006
Day Before Christmas – 24 December 2006
Deception in the Churches – 5 August 2006
Deception in the Churches (Continued) – 6 August 2006
Deliberate Blindness – 24 February 2008
Emotional Attachment – 25 May 2007
Emotional Attachment (Part 3) – 27 May 2007
Fear Makes the World Go 'Round – 25 February 2007
Fear Makes the World Go ’Round (continued) – 27 February 2007
Fear Makes the World Go ’Round (continued) – 2 March 2007
Fur and Faux Fur – 27 January 2007
Glorifying Cruelty – 24 January 2008
Greek Independence Day – 25 March 2008
“Green Ammo”? – 23 December 2006
Hardening Hearts Through Slaughter - 7 Apr 2006
Hardness of Heart – 24 September 2006
How Long, Oh Lord? - 12 Mar 2006
Hunters: Cowardly Ambushers – 1 November 2008
Independence Day - 4 July 2006
Intelligence, Knowledge, and Wisdom – 2 October 2006
Killing Fish – 24 Apr 2006
Lord, Come Now – 6 February 2007
Macho – 26 June 2007
Moral Courage – 24 March 2007
Practice Makes Perfect – 1 August 2006
Pro-Life? – 22 August 2006
Quotations - 20 Apr 2006
Real Food for Thought – 21 January 2009
Scapegoating – 6 July 2006
Serial Killer Training – 21 October 2008
Sex and Violence – 5 September 2006
Society of Sociopaths – 30 January 2008
Sound Familiar? – 3 June 2007
The Amazon – 13 January 2007
The Bible – 27 April 2007
The Disconnect – 10 June 2007
The Escalation of Violence – 8 August 2006
“The More Things Change…” – 2 September 2007
Torture – 8 March 2008
Torturing a Bull for Saint John – 31 May 2007
Turkeys – 25 January 2008
Veteran’s Day – 11 November 2006
Veterans Day – 11 November 2008
Violence – 1 August 2007
Violent Video Games – 4 August 2006
“Wars and Rumors of Wars” – 18 July 2006
When “Humor” Isn’t Funny – 26 November 2007
Who’s the Psychopath? - 22 Apr 2006

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