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- 10 important moments in Christianity and vegetarianism
- 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 Conservative Catholic Plea for the Elephants
- A Critique of Heidegger's "Fourfold" and the Role of "The Animal"
- A Letter To The Newly Vegan Muslim
- A Memorial Day Prayer for Animals
- A New World View of Our Fellow Animals
- A Quaker Response to Animal Suffering
- 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
- 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!
- 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 Meatless Dominion
- A New Season for Christianity and Animals
- A space for love and hope: The year ahead for CreatureKind
- 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-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 and Autism Pride: Let’s Heal the Rift
- Animal Rights and Christianity: A Historical and Theological Discourse
- 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
- Animals, Religion and the Environment
- Animals, the Church, Christmas Slaughter and Climate Change
- Animals’ Angels – We Are There With the Animals
- Animals are sentient beings
- Animals Feel the Pain of Religious Slaughter
- Animals Have Souls: Guaranteed
- Animals Killed in Religious Ritual
- Animals, the Church, Christmas Slaughter and Climate Change
- Animals: Who Cares?
- Announcing the 2017 Conscious Eating Conference Videos!
- Anthropomorphism and Sentimentality: Flawed Rhetoric Harming Animals
- 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 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
- Associative/metaphorical theories of consciousness: Heifer International
- Atonement
- Australia's Life Animal Exports for Middle East Sacrifices
- Bear Dreaming: Of Wonder in Winter
- 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
- Bright Aisles, Dark Alleys
- Buddhist Ethics: Compassion for All
- Can Christians Break the Silence on Animal Suffering?
- Canines, Carnism, and the Grip of History
- Caring for Creation
- Caring for the Creation: The Bible’s Message on Protecting the Environment
- [Case Study] How Christ Saved Billions of Animals (and Counting)
- Catholic Bishops Should Include Fish in "Meatless Fridays"
- Celebrate Easter With Compassion
- Changing The Menu At Christian Conferences
- Choices: Culture or Kingdom
- Christian Compassion and Stumbling Blocks
- Christian Ethics and Nonhuman Animals
- 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
- Christians and Jews Should Eat Plants, Not Animals: Our Responses to Common Objections
- Christianity and Veganism, United in Purpose
- Christianity, Veganism and Plantains
- Christians Are Vegetarians, They Just Don't Know It Yet
- 'Christians Should Be Animal Advocates', Says Vegan Founder Of Religious Organization
- Christmas and New Year's Message from David Irving, 2014
- 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?
- 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
- Descartes' Reasons: Challenging Today's Irrational View of Animals
- Didn’t God Give Us Animals to Use?
- Do All Dogs Really Go To Heaven?
- Do Animals Have Meaning In and Of Themselves?
- Do Animals Have Souls?
- Do Calls For Animal Rights Interfere With Religious Freedoms?
- Does Religion Trump Animal Protection?
- Dog Jewelry – 9,000 Years Ago
- Dog Meat and the Catholic Church of South Korea
- Dominion: An Interview with Chris Delforce
- Don't Kill an Animal This Eid
- 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 in Expectation of the Kingdom: The Christian Case for Veganism
- Eat Vegan, Save the World?
- Equality – Should It Apply to Animals?
- Eighteen Myths About Veganism and Judaism
- 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
- "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 Veganism: A Journey of Liberation
- Faith, Feminism and Animal Advocacy
- Finding Our Place In The World, A Sermon
- Five Jewish Synagogues in the U.S. Will Go Vegan for a Year
- Flock of Kaporos Victims Brought Home to Safety
- For the Love of Animals
- 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
- Friends [Quakers] and the Vegetarian Way
- God Did Not Order Abraham To Kill His Son
- God gave people animals to eat. Right?
- 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
- "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 So Many Christians Be Indifferent to Animal Suffering?
- How Is Kosher Meat Even Possible in the Age of Factory Farming?
- How One Latino Pastor Navigates Dinner
- How Our Immortality Projects Impact the Other Animals
- How to Find Your Own True Mission
- How We Humans Insist We Are Not Animals (Video 1)
- How Your Zoo Visit Supports Trophy Hunting
- Humanity Even for Nonhumans
- Humanity’s History with Animals: The Beginnings
- Hundreds of sheep die on broken down Kuwaiti ship stranded in Australian port
- I Accuse
- Importance of Animals in Islam
- ‘I Am Not an Animal!’
- I Believe
- I Love Pigs - I Think
- I’m A Christian. What I Believe About Jesus, the Bible and Hell. It is probably not what you think!
- Imagining Ourselves as Animals
- Incarnating A CreatureKind Church At The Summer Institute For Reconciliation
- India’s Cows and People Suffering Religious Political Violence
- Interfaith Vegan Coalition
- Interview: Paula Sandin and Jennifer Sandin Adams
- Interview with Filmmaker Thomas Wade about A Prayer for Compassion
- In The Beginning–Cain and Abel
- I Sang to the Cows
- Is Chick-fil-A Christian If They’re Doing This?
- Islam And Animal Welfare: A Brief Review
- Islamic Outreach by Factory Farming Awareness Coalition
- Is There Anybody Out There?
- Is There Such a Thing as ‘Halal’ Foie Gras?
- Is Veganism a Religion?
- Is Veganism a Religion?
- I Will Always Be Vegan - Richard Schwartz
- 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
- Kapparot With Chickens: On Ritual Slaughter and Human Greed
- Killing Animals for Entertainment: Why People Hunt
- 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
- Lenten Reflection: Transforming Scarcity Into Excess
- Let Us Not Wallow in the Valley of Despair!
- 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 Vegan: Benefits to Health and Spirituality
- Living With God's Other Creatures
- 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
- Meat Eating And Strategic Ignorance
- 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
- 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 Jerusalem TV
- New York State Court of Appeals Hears Arguments Against Chicken Kaporos
- New York Court of Appeals Dismisses Our Kaporos Case
- Nobody Deserves This
- Not Alone
- Not Because of PETA, But Because of the Torah, We Must Be Involved
- Notions of Compassion
- 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
- Of Rabbits and Resurrection
- Of Popes, Pets and Paradise
- On Food and Faith: Ministry in the Time of Climate Change
- 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
- 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
- Pegasus the Beloved Horse of Myth and Beauty
- Pope Francis and Mother Earth
- Pope Francis and the Animals
- 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?
- Punishment for Animal Abusers
- Quaker Concerns and the Animal Concern
- Quo Vadis? The Bible's Real Message About Animals
- 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
- Reflection on the Lectionary
- Reform the Scandal-Prone Kosher Meat Industry? Let’s Get Real.
- Religion and Vegetarianism - Some Surprising Results
- Religion and Other Animals
- 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
- Response to Unitarian-Universality Draft on Ethical Eating
- Restoring and transforming the ancient New Year for Animals
- 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
- Saints Against Hunting
- Science-Faith and The "God Delusion"
- "Shall we discuss animals this week?"
- Shepherding and Sanctuary
- Shifts in Catholic Views of Animals
- Should Christians Be Vegan?
- Singer on Animal Rights and God
- Slaughterhouse to Table: Don’t Forget to Remember
- 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
- 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 African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem are Vegans
- The Animals' Padre
- 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 Documentary Where Religion and Veganism Collide!
- The 'Easter Chick' – A Lost Soul
- 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: 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 Immorality of Meat Eating
- The Indian Rivers of Sorrow
- The Inner Light and the Honor Code
- 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 Land Where Only Humans Really Count
- The Meaning of Compassion
- The Miraculous Catch: It's Not About Fishing
- The Moral Schizophrenia of Catholicism
- The Nativity's Hope for All Creatures
- The Power of Ahimsa
- The Prophet Is An Ass
- The Reconciliation Of Creation: Especially Cows
- The Six Paramitas
- 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 Vegan Muslim Initiative: Opening Minds And Changing The World
- The Way of Vegan
- The Word Made Flesh
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Top Five Tips on Navigating Christmas as a Vegan
- Toward a Theology of Animals
- Towards a Theologically-motivated Veganism
- Truth, Freedom, And Creaturely Kindness
- Turkey Talk: Christians and the Thanksgiving Meal
- Turkeys and Humans
- Under Her Wings: The Pollomorphic God
- Unexpected Gifts
- Use a Sharp Knife: Islam and Animal Rights
- Vegan Christians Aren't That Scary
- Vegan Option Always from JewishVeg.org
- 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 John Paul II a Saint to the Animals?
- Waters of the Faroe Islands Run Red With Another Horrific Grind
- What does a dead lion have to do with abortion? Nothing, but while we’re on the subject...
- What Does Jesus Say?
- What Does the Bible Say About Veganism?
- What Each Major Religion Says About Animal Rights
- 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 the Genesis Story Tells us About the Animals
- What the World Needs Now (2014)
- What the World Needs Now (2017)
- 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 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 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 do Animals Suffer?
- Why Don't Churches Oppose Animal Abuse?
- Why is sentience ethically significant?
- Why Jews Should Oppose Ag-Gag Laws
- 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 Vegan
- 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?
- Withdrawing Support For Animal Cruelty
- Wolves, Economy, and Faith
- Worshipping Together: How to Include “Animal People” in the Life of the Church
- 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