An Animal Rights Article Series from All-Creatures.org

Animals: Tradition—Philosophy—Religion

Until we live our prayers for peace and freedom by granting peace and freedom to those who are vulnerable in our hands, we will find neither peace nor freedom.
~ Dr. Will Tuttle, The World Peace Diet

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Christian Living Articles
Interfaith Vegan Coalition: Advocacy Kits for Several Faiths
Reflection on the Lectionary (Series)
Religious/Spiritual Compassion for Animals - Organization Links

Recent Additions

• The Jewish Value of Tza’ar Ba’alei Chayim
• The Discomfort of Chicken Soup
• How Our Food Practices Can Protect the Environment and Climate
• Oshek: The Jewish Value of Protecting Workers
• I Fast All Year. The Table Changes Back.
• "Christspiracy" - A Review
• New York City Kaporos Report, 2025
• How to Survive Ramadan as a Vegan While Inspiring Others
• How Can Christians Live Mercifully?
• Animals, Vegetables, and My Soulful Life
• Is the Serpent Innocent? – A Meditation on Genesis 1-3
• Yes, meat eating is a sin
• Human and Animal Equality
• Letter from Christian Animal Advocacy and Protection Organizations Delivered to Pope Leo XIV
• A Faithful Witness Against Bullfighting
• Dominion
• Christianity and Vegetarianism
• Letter to Pope Leo XIV from Christian Faith Based Organisations and Individuals
• The unity of all life
• I Saw An Eid Massacre

Archive

• 2021 Vision Retreat: A World that Works for All
• 10 important moments in Christianity and vegetarianism
• 10 Steps to Veganism for Your Place of Worship
• 93 Chickens Rescued From Kapparot
• A Biblical Case for Veganism Part 1: The First Menu: Herbs & Grains, Fruits & Vegetables
• A Biblical Case for Veganism Part 2: Why Should You Abstain from Animal-Based Foods?
• A Biblical Case for Veganism Part 3: Troubled Waters
• A Christian Assessment of Animal Experimentation
• A Christmas Message: Peace on Earth
• A Christian Vegan's Thoughts about Angry Christians
• A Conservative Catholic Plea for the Elephants
• A CreatureKind Lectionary for All Creation: For Animals, Peoples and the Earth
• A Critique of Heidegger's "Fourfold" and the Role of "The Animal"
• A Faithful Witness Against Bullfighting
• A Liberated Pesach
• A Letter To The Newly Vegan Muslim
• A Memorial Day Prayer for Animals
• A New World View of Our Fellow Animals
• A Pangolin, Beelzebub and St Benedict: Restoring Our Relationship With Creation During a Time of Crisis
• A Place for Praise and Gratification
• A Quaker Response to Animal Suffering
• A speciesist God isn’t worth worshiping
• A U.S. tribe wants to resume whale hunting...
• A Vegan Diet Saves Animals
• ABC In Buddhist India, October 2011
• About the Film Prayer for Compassion
• Abraham Lincoln: Vegetarian and Animal Rights Advocate?—A Review of the Evidence
• Abstaining from Meat - A Year-Round Practice
• Abstaining from Meat Can Be Transforming
• Advocating Animal Protectionism to Christians
• Activists Shut Down NYC Health Commissioner Mary Bassett’s Presentation
• Advent, Day 13 Christmas...not white but greenwashed
• After Months of Protests, NYC Health Commissioner Mary Bassett Resigns with Over Three Years Left in Her Term
• Against the Current
• All animals go to heaven
• All Animals Go To Heaven!
• Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos
• Alliance to End Chicken Kaporos Campaign Heats Up!
• Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos Lawsuit: Update and Media Coverage
• Amazing Bible Verses That Will Change the World for Animals
• A Many-Folded Cord
• A Meatless Dominion
• A New Season for Christianity and Animals
• A Response to Christspiracy: Jain Yoga as the Internalization of the Sacrifice
• A space for love and hope: The year ahead for CreatureKind
• An Advent Reflection: Instruments Of Peace For All Creatures
• Ancient Greek Philosophers Warned Us About Eating Animals
• An Interview with Rabbi Simchah Roth
• An Islamic Perspective Against Animal Sacrifice
• An Open Letter to My Fellow Unitarian-Universalists (UUs) on Animal Liberation
• An Open Letter to Pope Francis from Tom Regan
• An Update From Sarah Herring, CreatureKind Climate Fellow At Eastern University
• Animal advocacy through religions – ISKCON and the dilemma of commercial dairy use
• Animal Abuse Is Not Consistent With Bible Teachings!
• Animal Chaplains To Bless All Creatures on World Animal Day
• Animal Christian Concern (ACC) on Vegetarianism – Parts One and Two
• Animal exploitation metaphors in Christianity
• Animal-Insensitivity Syndrome: A Cognitive and Affective Developmental Disorder
• Animal Liberation: Broad Church or Sect?
• Animal People: Why Do Animal Rights Activists Care About Animals and Not About People?
• Animal Protection and Hindu Temple Culture of Ancient India
• Animal Rights 101
• Animal Rights Activists Rescue 510 Chickens From Kaporos Slaughter
• Animal Rights and Autism Pride: Let’s Heal the Rift
• Animal Rights and Christianity: A Historical and Theological Discourse
• Animal Rights Group Plasters 300 Anti-Kaporos Posters Throughout NYC
• Animal Rights, Mammonism and the Golden Rule
• Animal Sacrifice and the Day of Atonement
• Animal Sacrifice in Islam
• Animal Sacrifice or Blood Orgy?
• Animal Suffrage
• Animal Voices
• Animal Welfare and Individual Responsibility
• Animal Welfare in the Bible
• Animals in Church: Non-humans and Cultures of Prayer and Worship in Twentieth-century Britain
• Animals As Our Neighbors: Including All of Creation in Ministry
• Animals in Heaven?
• Animals, Religion and the Environment
• Animals’ Angels – We Are There With the Animals
• Animals are sentient beings
• Animals, Climate Change, and the Glory of God
• Animals Feel the Pain of Religious Slaughter
• Animals Have Souls: Guaranteed
• Animals Killed in Religious Ritual
• Animals' Rights, Veganism and Holocaust Comparisons
• Animals, the Church, Christmas Slaughter and Climate Change
• Animals, Vegetables, and My Soulful Life
• Animals: Who Cares?
• Announcing the 2017 Conscious Eating Conference Videos!
• Anthropomorphism and Sentimentality: Flawed Rhetoric Harming Animals
• Anti-Chicken-Kaporos Activists Relaunch Legal Attack
• A Priest of God or a Priest of Satan?
• Applying The Golden Rule to ALL Animals (2014)
• Applying The Golden Rule to ALL Animals (2017)
• Applying The Golden Rule to ALL Animals (2019)
• Are Childless People Who Adopt Pets Selfish?
• Are hunting and fishing consistent with religious values?
• Are Religions Bad for Animals?
• Are We Becoming More Hardhearted?
• Are You a Speciesist? (and How to Tell!)
• Ashir Bhalla-Levine's Bar Mitzvah Speech
• A Short History of Animal Advocacy in the Catholic Church
• Associative/metaphorical theories of consciousness: Heifer International
• Atonement
• Australia's Life Animal Exports for Middle East Sacrifices
• Awakening the Healer - And the God - Within
• A World That Works For All: Awakening the Sleeping Giant of Religion
• Bear Dreaming: Of Wonder in Winter
• Being Vegan
• Believing in Animal Afterlife
• "Be Not Afraid": Vegan Clergy Respond to Anti-vegan Sentiment Within the Church
• Biblical and other religious support for veganism
• Biblical Implications: Stoning Gannet Chicks in Scotland
• Biblical Literalism: Some Perplexing Interpretations, Especially The Animal Sacrifice Issue
• Biblical Perspectives that Oppose the Heifer Project
• Biblical Vegetarianism
• Bishop John Arold Calls for urgent Action on Climate Change, including a Move to More Plant Based Diets
• Blood Sports and Buddhism
• Boats Returning Home
• Bright Aisles, Dark Alleys
• Buddhist and Plant-Based Diet - Presentation at Himalayan Vegan Festival
• Buddhist Ethics: Compassion for All
• Buddhist Narrative Re-Weavings of Animal Liberation
• “But Didn’t Jesus Eat Meat?”
• Campaign Update from the Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos
• Can Christians Break the Silence on Animal Suffering?
• Can Legislation for Animals Offer Liberty for Humans? The Passing of UK's Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill
• Canines, Carnism, and the Grip of History
• Capturing God’s Love for Animals on Canvas – Limppu Witick
• Caring for Creation (1995)
• Caring for Creation (2023)
• Caring for the Creation: The Bible’s Message on Protecting the Environment
• [Case Study] How Christ Saved Billions of Animals (and Counting)
• Catholic Agency for Overseas Development Criticized for its Animal Gifting Program
• Catholic Bishops Should Include Fish in "Meatless Fridays"
• Catholic Concern for Animal's Chair's response to Pope Francis' Comments on the Family and Companion Animals
• Catholic Concern for Animals has launched a major new campaign regarding animals in circuses
• Celebrate Easter With Compassion
• Changing The Menu At Christian Conferences
• Choices: Culture or Kingdom
• Christian Animal Rights Association
• Christian animal rights in three passages
• Christian Community, COVID-19, And The Slaughterhouse
• Christian Compassion and Stumbling Blocks
• Christian Ethics and Nonhuman Animals
• Christian Veganism
• Christianity and a vegan diet: How I reconcile veganism with the Judeo-Christian belief system
• Christianity and Animal Rights, Part 1
• Christianity and Animal Rights, Part 2
• Christianity and Animal Rights, Part 3
• Christianity and Animal Rights, Part 4
• Christianity and Animal Rights, Part 5
• Christianity and Animal Rights, Part 6
• Christianity and Animal Rights, Part 7
• Christianity and Animal Rights, Part 8: What Is Humanity’s “Natural” Diet?
• Christianity and Animal Rights, Part 9: Facing the Truth
• Christianity and Animal Rights, Part 10
• Christianity and Animal Rights: The Challenge and Promise
• Christianity and Animals
• Christianity and Carnism
• Christianity and pacifism
• Christian Animal Rights - Our Strategies
• Christians and Jews Should Eat Plants, Not Animals: Our Responses to Common Objections
• Christianity and Veganism, United in Purpose
• Christianity and Vegetarianism
• Christianity, Animals, and Coronavirus: A Time to Repent?
• Christianity, Veganism and Plantains
• Christians Are Vegetarians, They Just Don't Know It Yet
• Christians for Impact Conference Urges Action Against Animal Cruelty
• 'Christians Should Be Animal Advocates', Says Vegan Founder Of Religious Organization
• Christmas and New Year's Message from David Irving, 2014
• Christmas Presents, Christmas Past
• Christspiracy
• "Christspiracy" - A Review
• Christspiracy: How Religions have Betrayed Animals
• Compassion, Christianity, and Veganism
• Compassion for Sale? Doublethink Meets Doublefeel as Happy Meat Comes of Age
• Concerns and the Animal Concern
• Compassion: Still the Ultimate Ethic - Victoria Moran
• Converting Christians to Animal Rights
• Could Religion Be the Answer to Rescuing Indonesian Wildlife?
• Counting Chickens And Eggs
• Court Rules on Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos v. City of New York Appeal
• Cows in Modern Day India
• Creation Groans: Why Christians Should Care About Animals
• Creature Conference: Is Christianity Good News for Animals?
• Cruel Customs And The Conditional Value Of Tradition
• Cruelty in the Cause of Fashion
• Culturally Rationalized Forms of Chicken Sacrifice: The Kaporos Ritual and the Chicken Project
• D016 – Makes Room in God’s House for All God’s Creatures
• Daily Log of Activities to End Chicken Kaporos in Brooklyn, October 3-7, 2019
• Decent Conduct toward Animals: A Traditional Approach
  Abstract
  A: The Political Issue
  B: Species - Loyalty and Betrayal
  C: Sharing the Same World
  D: Reason, Honour and the Opened Eye
• Deconstructing Darwin
• Defending the Defenceless: Speciesism, Animal Liberation, and Consistency in Applied Ethics
• Demonstrating the Christian Ideals of Harmlessness and Universal Lovingkindness: Eight Steps
• Descartes' Reasons: Challenging Today's Irrational View of Animals
• Didn’t God Give Us Animals to Use?
• Did Jesus Eat Fish? Should We Eat Fish Ourselves?
• Did Jesus Kill 2000 Pigs?
• Did the Torah Warn Us About Covid-19?
• Disenfranchised Grief
• Do All Dogs Really Go To Heaven?
• Do Animals Have Meaning In and Of Themselves?
• Do Animals Have Souls?
• Do Animals Have Souls?
• Do Calls For Animal Rights Interfere With Religious Freedoms?
• Doctrinal Statement of Shepherding All God’s Creatures
• Does Religion Trump Animal Protection?
• Dog Jewelry – 9,000 Years Ago
• Dog Meat and the Catholic Church of South Korea
• Doing It For The Animals
• Dominion
• Dominion: An Interview with Chris Delforce
• Don't Kill an Animal This Eid
• Do Religious Beliefs Influence Concerns for Animal Welfare?
• Dwelling In The Wild Places, Welcoming The Light
• Each year a litany of sarcasm accompanies the sentimentality of Thanksgiving
• Easter: Pity the Poor Lamb
• Easter and Passover: Of Children and Lambs
• Easter Ham and the Ancient World
• Eating Animals is not the purpose of Christmas
• Eating in Expectation of the Kingdom: The Christian Case for Veganism
• Eat Vegan, Save the World?
• Eid Al-Adha 2025: The Great Escape—Terrified Animals Make a Desperate Dash to Escape Their Fate
• Eid ul Adha is Coming Up
• Eighteen Myths About Veganism and Judaism
• Embracing Transformation: Food for Life Global Becomes Food Yoga International
• Enchantment vs. Compassionate Justice?
• End Chicken Kaporos Lawsuit Filed In New York
• End of Animal Sacrifice at the Gadhimai Festival?
• End These Religious Festivals Now!
• Encourage One Another
• Enough With the Zoos Already
• Ensnaring God's Animals in Glue Traps Must End—Your Church Can Lead the Way
• Equality – Should It Apply to Animals?
• "Eternal Consequences," That's What! Part I
• "Eternal Consequences," That's What! Part II
• Ethical Choices Program Is Expanding
• EVANA Interview with Dr. Richard Schwartz
• Ex-Kaporos Chickens Live Happily at And-Hof Sanctuary in Upstate New York
• Explore Vegan Paganism with Us!
• Faith and Anymals, Interview with Lisa Kemmerer
• Faith and Veganism: A Journey of Liberation
• Faith, Feminism and Animal Advocacy
• Faith.Food.Family
• Fasting From Injustice, Feasting In Freedom
• Finding Our Place In The World, A Sermon
• First-ever Vegan Spirituality Forum & Retreat at Unity Village
• Five Jewish Synagogues in the U.S. Will Go Vegan for a Year
• Flock of Kaporos Victims Brought Home to Safety
• Food and the Narrow Path: A Vegan Perspective on Celebrating Christmas
• For God So Loved The Kosmos
• For the Love of Animals
• "For What Must The Church Repent And How?" - A Lent Sermon for Ash Wednesday
• Franklin Graham Chooses Compassion by Going Vegan
• Free Will and Animal Issues – Part 1
• Free Will and Animal Issues – Part 2
• Free Will and Animal Issues – Part 3
• Freedom from the Chains of Eating Meat
• Friends [Quakers] and the Vegetarian Way
• From Lamenting to Praise: What The Psalms Teach Us About Prayer
• God Did Not Order Abraham To Kill His Son
• God I Hate Thanksgiving
• God Is A Vegan
• God, Christianity and Meat
• God, Nimrod, and the World: Exploring Christian Perspectives on Sport Hunting
• God's First Conversation with Humankind: Eat Plants!
• God's Love For Animals
• God put animals on this planet for humans?
• GoldenRuleism: Living A GoldenRule-Guided Life, May 2024
• Great Things He Has Done
• "Great Wake" for the Turkeys
• Hajj - Some Afterthoughts
• Hard Boiled Nonsense
• Harvest Double-Talk
• Hasidic Jews Speak Out Against Mass Animal Sacrifice, Kaporos
• Henry Stephens Salt and the Argument for Animal Rights
• Hey American Rabbis: Wake Up and Smell the Cruelty
• Hindu Ethics and Nonhuman Animals
• Historic Legislation Introduced in the Netherlands Prioritizes the Interests of Animals Over Religious Freedom
• Holy Week and the Groaning of Creation
• Hope for “Christian Deer Hunters”?*
• How Can Christians Live Mercifully?
• How Can So Many Christians Be Indifferent to Animal Suffering?
• How Did the Land of Ahimsa and Ayurveda Become So Dairy-Obsessed and Diabetic?
• How Is Kosher Meat Even Possible in the Age of Factory Farming?
• How One Latino Pastor Navigates Dinner
• How Our Food Practices Can Protect the Environment and Climate
• How Our Immortality Projects Impact the Other Animals
• How to Find Your Own True MissionHow Veganism is Compatible with My Catholic Faith
• How to Survive Ramadan as a Vegan While Inspiring Others
• How veganism is Compatible with my Catholicism
• How We Humans Insist We Are Not Animals (Video 1)
• How We Introduce Animals to Children: A Story of Hypocrisy
• How Your Zoo Visit Supports Trophy Hunting
• Huge Kaporos Chicken Rescue Planned
• Human and Animal Equality
• Humanity Even for Nonhumans
• Humanity’s History with Animals: The Beginnings
• Hundreds of sheep die on broken down Kuwaiti ship stranded in Australian port
• Hunter Ran Down Wolf With Snowmobile, Tortured the Injured Animal at a Bar Before Killing Her
• Hunting Tradition: Treaties, Law, and Subsistence Killing
• Hunting – What Scripture Says
• I Accuse
• If you believe...
• Importance of Animals in Islam
• I am a Christian; Therefore I am Vegan
• ‘I Am Not an Animal!’
• I Am Sorry, Innocent Child of the Earth!
• I Believe
• I Fast All Year. The Table Changes Back.
• I have never forgotten this lovely miracle
• I Love Pigs - I Think
• I Saw An Eid Massacre
• I’m A Christian. What I Believe About Jesus, the Bible and Hell. It is probably not what you think!
• Imagining Creation as a Christian Vegan
• Imagining Ourselves as Animals
• Incarnating A CreatureKind Church At The Summer Institute For Reconciliation
• Incredible Kaporos Surrender and Rescue!
• Indian temple welcomes life-size mechanical elephant in move to protect wildlife
• India’s Cows and People Suffering Religious Political Violence
• In Loving Memory Of Smokey
• In search of a vegan Christianity
• Interfaith Leaders Call for End to Animal Gifting
• Interfaith Leaders Urge Pope to Include Kindness to Animals in October 4 Encyclical
• Interfaith Leaders Urge UN’s COP26 to Adopt the Plant Based Treaty to Avert Climate Catastrophe
• Interfaith Vegan Coalition
• Interfaith Vegan Coalition Launches 1st Sermon/Spiritual Presentation Contest on Compassion for Animals
• Interview: Paula Sandin and Jennifer Sandin Adams
• Interview with Filmmaker Thomas Wade about A Prayer for Compassion
• In The Beginning–Cain and Abel
• Introduction to The "Church" of Biocentrism
• I Sang to the Cows
• Is Chick-fil-A Christian If They’re Doing This?
• Is Eating Meat 'Sinful'?
• Is Humanism good enough?
• Is it impossible to certify Impossible Pork as kosher or halal?
• Islam And Animal Welfare: A Brief Review
• Islamic Outreach by Factory Farming Awareness Coalition
• Is the Serpent Innocent? – A Meditation on Genesis 1-3
• Is There Anybody Out There?
• Is There Moral Justification to Eat Meat?
• Is There Such a Thing as ‘Halal’ Foie Gras?
• Is This How to Get Conversations About Farmed Animals Started at a Church Near You?
• Is Veganism a Religion?
• Is Veganism a Religion?
• I Think God Wants Us to Start Rebuilding Eden
• I Will Always Be Vegan - Richard Schwartz
• Jain Professional Ethics
• Jesus and Animals (Peaceable Table)
• Jesus and Animals (Vegetarian Society of Queensland)
• Jewish Ethics and Nonhuman Animals
• Jewish Veg Statement in Support of Banning Fur Sales in NYC
• Jewish Vegetarians of North America 2015 Leaflet PDF
• Jewish Veg Spotlight Shines On Stewart Rose
• Jesus Christ - The First Animal Rights Activist
• Jesus Was a Vegetarian
• Jewish Teaching Promotes Compassion, So Why Are Thousands of Chickens Abused and Killed for Yom Kippur Every Year?
• JewishVeg.org takes a stand against the cruel practice of using chickens as kaporos
• Judaism and the Ethics of Eating - "Every Moving Thing That Liveth Shall be Food for You"
• Judaism and Veganism: Time for a Reunion
• Kaporos 2021: Chaos, Care and Rescue in Brooklyn, and a New Film
• Kaporos 2022: Hands-on Activism
• Kapparot With Chickens: On Ritual Slaughter and Human Greed
• Killing Animals for Entertainment: Why People Hunt
• Kindness to Cats is a Classical Virtue
• "Know well the faces of your sheep": Compassion for Animals in the Old Testament
• Lab Grown Meat — Is This Biblical?
• Lag B’Omer and Vegetarianism/Veganism: Making Every Day Coun
• Lamb chopped as bishops turn veggie
• Lamb’s Blood Aside, Passover is the Perfect Time to Go Vegan
• Lent Guide: 40 Days With God’s Creatures
• Lenten Reflection: Transforming Scarcity Into Excess
• Let Us Not Wallow in the Valley of Despair!
• Letter from Christian Animal Advocacy and Protection Organizations Delivered to Pope Leo XIV
• Letter to Pope Francis re Laudato Deum
• Letter to Pope Francis About COP16 and Animal Agriculture
• Letter to Pope Leo XIV from Catholics Calling for a Just Treatment of Animals
• Letter to Pope Leo XIV from Christian Faith Based Organisations and Individuals
• Lezlie M.
• 'Like lambs to the slaughter...' What choices will you make this Easter?
• Like the Foul Stable: What I Learned on a Family Farm
• Linked Oppressions: Privilege vs. Stench
• Linking Faith and Animal Rights
• Little Trilogy of True Love
• Living the Chanukah Miracle
• Living Vegan: Benefits to Health and Spirituality
• Living With God's Other Creatures
• Lost "Lamb" Finds Peace
• Love: The Way Of Animal Liberation
• Love Will Find a Way
• Lummi Nation Totem Pole Ceremony To Free Tokitae (Lolita!) The Whale
• Make Sure you Read and Hear God's Speech at the Vatican
• Making Sense of Nepal’s Gadhimai Animal Massacre
• Man's Role with Animals According to the Bible
• March Madness? This Is Munch Madness!
• Marxism and the Animal Question
• Meat Eating And Strategic Ignorance
• Millions Go Vegan for Lent: Interfaith Vegan Coalition Offers Resources to Help
• Millions Revive Ancient Lenten Practice of Going Vegan
• More Humans Should Ask Themselves Why Anyone Should Care About Their Suffering
• Mormon 'Law of Health' says Eat Meat Sparingly or Not At All
• Mourning and Gratitude on Thanksgiving Day
• Muddy Boots and a Cassock: A Commentary on Laudato Si, the Encyclical Letter of Pope Francis
• Muslim Scholars Should Declare Factory Farming Haram
• My Pilgrimage - Jim Weiland
• My Story: Convert to Animal Welfare
• Nature: Lessons From Non-Human Animals
• New Animal Welfare Standards For Organic Meat And Dairy Products Are Withdrawn. Now What?
• New Beef Ban Would Cause Massive Economic Damage in India and Send a Hateful Message to Its Muslims
• New Earth Abolition (NEA)
• New Jerusalem TV
• New Research Connects Christianity and Farmed Animal Welfare
• New York City Kaporos Report, 2025
• New York Court of Appeals Dismisses Our Kaporos Case
• New York State Court of Appeals Hears Arguments Against Chicken Kaporos
• Newsflash! Animal Chaplaincy Has Become a Growing Profession
• Nobody Deserves This
• Nonviolence and Animal Advocacy: QnA with Arihanta Institute's Christopher Miller
• Not Alone
• Not Because of PETA, But Because of the Torah, We Must Be Involved
• Notions of Compassion
• Not stirred by animal cruelty? What about the children?
• Now a Century Since the Scopes “Monkey” Trial
• NYC Health Commissioner Mary Bassett Misleads Public About Legality of Kaporos Chicken Massacre
• NYC Health Commissioner Says She Will Continue to Allow Orthodox Jewish Animal Sacrifice Despite Health Code Violations, Reports of E. coli, and Current Measles Outbreak in Same Community
• Objections To A Christian Food Ethic Treating The Consumption Of Animals
• Ode to a Turkey
• Of Rabbits and Resurrection
• Of Popes, Pets and Paradise
• On Causing Offence: Veganism, Piers Morgan and Acts 10
• On Food and Faith: Ministry in the Time of Climate Change
• On The Need for Eco-Salvation
• On the Rights of Animals
• On the Virtue of Temper
• Opposition to Kosher and Halal Ritual Slaughter of Animals Gaining Steam in Holland
• Orthodox Community May Be Growing More Receptive to Our Perspective about Chickens as Kaporos
• Orthodox Jewish Girl Secretly Gives Activist a Slaughter-bound Chicken
• Orthodoxy and Care of Creation
• Oshek: The Jewish Value of Protecting Workers
• Passover: Of Lamb Shanks and Sled Dogs
• Passover Lessons That Can Produce a Sustainable Environment
• Paul McCartney's India Vegetarian Day Receives Support From Hindus
• Philosopher Critics By Tom Regan
• Pegasus the Beloved Horse of Myth and Beauty
• Pope Francis and Mother Earth
• Pope Francis and the Animals
• Pope Francis Urged to Reconsider Comments on Human Children vs. Animal Companions
• Power, Fear, and Spirit
• Practice What You Preach This Lenten Season
• Prayer and Pastoral Care for Animal Carers
• Prayers for Worms and for the Elevation of Human Consciousness
• ProFauna Indonesia's Conservation and Animal Welfare Campaigns through Islamic Approaches
• Profauna's Cross-Religious Discussions on Animal Welfare
• Protecting Co-Creation: The Problem with Animal Testing
• Protecting Purity from Pollution, or Protecting Pollution from Purity?
• Pulpit to Protest: Christian Leaders Speak out Against Bullfighting
• Punishment for Animal Abusers
• Quaker Concerns and the Animal Concern
• Questioning the political efficacy of faith
• Quo Vadis? The Bible's Real Message About Animals
• Rabbi Sacks Still Inspires Me to Create a Kinder World
• Rabbinic Statement on Animal-Free, Plant-Based Diets
• Radharani and Champa...Deadly Elephant Tragedy in India
• Reaching People of Faith with the Vegan Message
• Rebecca the hen is saved from Kaporos Ritual
• Rediscovering Vegan Heritage: The Rise of Plant-Based Diets in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) Region
• Reflection on the Lectionary - Series
• Reflections On COVID-19: Suffering From Exile
• Reform the Scandal-Prone Kosher Meat Industry? Let’s Get Real.
• Religion and Vegetarianism - Some Surprising Results
• Religion and Other Animals
• Religion, Science, and Animal Rights: the Future of Man and Earth
• Religion, Science and Truth: The Future of Man and Earth
• Religious and Philosophical Perspectives on Animals: From Genesis to Derrida
• Renewed Efforts to Stop Chicken-Swinging Ritual During Yom Kippur
• Re-sanctifying Nature and All Our Relations
• Resources for Catholic Schools
• Response to Unitarian-Universality Draft on Ethical Eating
• Restoring and transforming the ancient New Year for Animals
• Rev. William Melton's Vision for PAUW Post Animal Use World
• Revealing the Truth; One Brushstroke at a Time – Philip McCulloch-Downs
• Reverence for Life & Truth: Reflections That Help Me Along in My Spiritual Journey
• Review of Encyclical: Laudato Si' of the Holy Father Francis: On Care for Our Common Home
• Rights, Wrongs and the Golden Rule (2014)
• Ritual Animal Sacrifice
• Ritual Slaughter
• Robin... Rescued after Kaporos Brutality
• Robin: Rescued from the Dead, a New Film by Unparalleled Suffering
• Sacred Activism in the Service of Animals
• Sacred Nature: Non-Western voices about animals, people, and climate
• Saints Against Hunting
• Sámi People's Perspectives on Environmental Change and Mental Well-Being
• Science-Faith and The "God Delusion"
• Searching for Western Wisdom Teachings that Support Veganism
• Sermons Promoting Animal Compassion Win Awards
• "Shall we discuss animals this week?"
• Shamans, Ancient and Modern, and Animal Relationships
• Shepherding and Sanctuary
• Should Christians Care About Animal Welfare?
• Shifts in Catholic Views of Animals
• Should Christians Be Vegan?
• Silent Communion
• Singer on Animal Rights and God
• Slaughterhouse to Table: Don’t Forget to Remember
• Slaughterhouse Worker to Vegan Advocate
• Some Thoughts on Cruelty
• Sons and Daughters Revealed
• Spiritual Determination Finds Ways to Overcome Obstacles and Adversity
• Spiritual Pollution
• Spirituality and Vegetarianism
• Spiritually Thinking
• Statement from the Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos
• Statements By Rabbis Against the Use of Chickens for Kapparot
• Stewardship is Not Good Enough
• Strength to Love
• Suffering of Chickens in the Kaporos Ritual: The Facts
• Suffering Of The Innocents- Parts One and Two
• Synopsis: NYC Bar Association Law Forum on Kaporos
• Task Force on Animals - Diocese of Olympia
• Thanksgivukah: Giving Thanks for Miracles
• The Abortion Dilemma for Vegans/Vegetarians
• The African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem are Vegans
• The Animals' Padre
• The Bible and Veganism: 14 Answers to 14 Objections
• The Bible’s Disturbing, and Relevant, Message
• The Big Guy in the Sky and His Divine Plan
• The Blessings of the Animals in the Philippines
• The Buddha and Vegetarianism (and Jesus, For That Matter)
• The Call to Mercy
• The Conscience: Our Guide to a Truly New Year
• The Covenant with All Living Creatures
  The Scriptures
  Beginning from the Beginning
  Hope for the Future
  Bargains within the Covenant
  Things are God's Love
  *Readers' Comments *
• The Cruel Realities of Elephants in Tourism and the Need for New Law Now
• The Desert Tradition and the Natural Environment
• The Discomfort of Chicken Soup
• The Documentary Where Religion and Veganism Collide!
• The 'Easter Chick' – A Lost Soul
• The Emotional and Spiritual Benefits of Going Vegan
• The "Empathosphere" and Compassion's Light
• The End of Hunting and Fishing in the Wild
• The Five Universal Taboos and Animal Use
• The Fowler's Trap
• The Empathosphere, Human and Non-Human Feeling and Awareness
• The General Deliverance
  Preface
  Introduction
  Part I. What was the original state of the brute creation?
  Part II. In what state is it at present?
  Part III. In what state will it be at the manifestation of the children of God?
• The Golden Rule (Gentle World)
• The Golden Rule: The Universal Ethic
• The Good News of the Gospel Applies To the Animals As Archbishop Speaks Out for the Animals at Church Festivals
• The Healing Power of Water
• The Hunter and the Goat
• The Idea Behind the Documentary Land of Ahimsa
• The Immorality of Meat Eating
• The Indian Rivers of Sorrow
• The Inner Light and the Honor Code
• The Interfaith Vegan Coalition: Its Values, Goals, and Mission
• The Interfaith Vegan Coalition Shines a Light on Ahimsa and Veganism at the Parliament of World Religions Conference
• The Irish Horse in Myth and Legend
• The Jewish Value of Tza’ar Ba’alei Chayim
• The Land Where Only Humans Really Count
• The Meaning of Compassion
• The Meaning of Dominion
• The Middle East Vegan Society Launches Vegan Islam Initiative
• The Miraculous Catch: It's Not About Fishing
• The Moral Schizophrenia of Catholicism
• The Nativity's Hope for All Creatures
• The New Covenant
• The Other Saint Francis
• The Power of Ahimsa
• The Prophet Is An Ass
• The Reconciliation Of Creation: Especially Cows
• The Road to Eden: A Whole Planet Spirituality Forum & Retreat
• The Second Coming? Existential Reality of Global Environmental Crisis
• The Secrets Whispered in Every Living Being
• The Six Paramitas
• The Sky is Falling
• The Suffering of Animals Today: A Challenge to Religious Leaders
• The Thanksgiving Myth
• The Torah/Bible Verse That Turned Two Meat Eaters into Beet Eaters
• The Unholiest of Contests: Taiwan's Pig of Gods (POG)
• The unity of all life
• The Universal Ethic
• The Vegan Muslim Initiative: Opening Minds And Changing The World
• The Way of Vegan
• The Word Made Flesh
• The Word of Our Testimony: Effective Advocacy as a Christian and Vegan
• The New Ethics
• The Root Cause of All Discrimination, Oppression and Even Terrorism
• The Top 7 Shocking Christian Animal Rights Misconceptions
• The UK is changing fast
• The Universal Christ and animals
• They Call it a Festival
• They're Already Dead... As an Excuse to Eat Animals
• This I Believe: A Statement About My Religious Beliefs
• This Purim, Meet the New Esther, a Savior - For Our Times and Her Species
• Thousands of Chickens Die of Hypothermia During Kaporos in Brooklyn
• Throwing Rocks At Giants
• Thou Shalt Not Eat Meat!
• Time to End All Slavery
• To Kiss Salamanders and Stones
• Tom Regan, 78, made the case for animal rights
• Tommy the chimpanzee dies alone in his prison cell
• Top Five Tips on Navigating Christmas as a Vegan
• Toward a Theology of Animals
• Towards a Religion of Compassion
• Towards a Theologically-motivated Veganism
• Traditional Thanksgiving: Where the “Sacred” and the Profane Intersect
• Transformation: How a Christian Vegan Community is Awakening a New World
• Truth, Freedom, And Creaturely Kindness
• Turkey Talk: Christians and the Thanksgiving Meal
• Turkeys and Humans
• Under Her Wings: The Pollomorphic God
• Unexpected Gifts
• Unity With All Living Things
• Use a Sharp Knife: Islam and Animal Rights
• Vegan—And Christian, Too
• Vegan Christians Aren't That Scary
• Vegan Needs a Capital “V”
• Vegan Option Always from JewishVeg.org
• Vegan Resources for Catholic Schools
• Veganism Isn’t a Lifestyle; It’s a Spiritual Practice
• Vegetarianism and the Major World Religions [PowerPoint: Vegetarianism and the Major World Religions]
• Vegetarianism and the Bible: Peace, Plants, and the Kingdom of God
• Vegetarianism in the Religious Traditions
• Verbal Activism: "Anymal"
• Vicars and Veganuary
• Video Exposes Multiple Health Code Violations During Illegal Mass Animal Sacrifice in Brooklyn
• Warehousing Animals is Beneath Humanity's Moral Dignity
• Was Jesus Vegetarian?
• Was John Paul II a Saint to the Animals?
• Waters of the Faroe Islands Run Red With Another Horrific Grind
• Welcome to Arihanta Institute
• We Need To End Eid Slaughter
• We Protested and Pleaded for Two Kaporos Chickens in San Diego, CA
• What does a dead lion have to do with abortion? Nothing, but while we’re on the subject...
• What Does Christianity Have To Do With Animals?
• What Does Jesus Say?
• What Does the Bible Say About Veganism?
• What Each Major Religion Says About Animal Rights
• What is DefaultVeg?
• What is the 'Ahimsa' in the Documentary Land of Ahimsa?
• What Is the Bible's Diet?
• What Is the Blessing over Meat?
• What is Witnessing, and Why Is It Important for Transforming Carnism?
• What Kind of God?
• What On Earth Are Animals For?
• What Shall We Do With Our Vainglorious Aspirations?
• What the Genesis Story Tells us About the Animals
• What the World Needs Now (2014)
• What the World Needs Now (2017)
• What's Our #1 Rule?
• What We Believe
• What We Eat: An Important Environmental Issue
• What would Jesus think about factory farms?
• When Animal Advocacy Is Used As A Weapon
• When God Showed Up at My Front Door
• When Killing Animals is 'Honoring God'
• When the Famous Rabbi Met the Frightened Calf
• Where Do Animals Belong in Christian Theology and Ethics?
• Which animals would St. Francis bless today?
• Who Stole My Religion
• Why all church events everywhere should be VEGAN
• Why Animal Protection Advocates Are Lauding Pope Francis’s Encyclical, Laudato Si’
• Why Animals Can’t Sacrifice Their Lives for Us
• Why Are Few Spiritual Teachers Vegan?
• Why are human beings cruel?
• Why Are So Few Christians Vegan?
• Why are some of Judaism’s most common ritual objects made from animal products?
• Why are there Corpses on our Christmas tables?
• Why Aren’t More Christians Vegan? A Question for Lent
• Why Being Vegan Is Not ‘Like a Religion’
• Why Did God Allow Killing Animals?
• Why do Animals Suffer?
• Why Do We Eat Babies on Easter?
• Why Don't Churches Oppose Animal Abuse?
• Why do you exclude Animals from the Golden Rule?
• Why is sentience ethically significant?
• Why Jews Should Be Vegans
• Why Jews Should Oppose Ag-Gag Laws
• Why Might Christians Be Leaving Turkey Off the Table This Christmas?
• Why SeaWorld's "Praise Wave" Concert is Unworthy of Our Praise
• Why Talking About Christianity And Animals Requires Talking About Race
• Why the Churches Are Failing
• Why The Compassion Consortium?
• Why Vegan
• Why Vegan? A Synergy of Animal and Human Justice
• Why Vegan Spirituality Matters
• Why We Need to Tell Ourselves We're Not Animals (Video 2)
• Why You Should Care about the Faith-Based Arguments For (and Against) Animal Liberation
• Will Religion Finally Kill Off the Elephants?
• Will this Elephant Go Down in Church History?
• Wings
• Withdrawing Support For Animal Cruelty
• Without Consent: A Vegan-Theological Argument Against Animal Ownership
• Wolves, Economy, and Faith
• Worshipping Together: How to Include “Animal People” in the Life of the Church
• Yes, meat eating is a sin
• Yoga Goes Vegan
• You Are Worth More than Many Sparrows
• You Who Dare to Oppose Them Are Blessed…
• Your Tax Dollars at Work: Starving, Torturing and Killing Animals