One of the most frequent questions we get is "what should I read?" Ten or fifteen years ago, you had to dig a little to find more than a few good works on animals and Christian theology. But today, you can build a decent little library. Here are a few of our absolute favorites (and yes, we wrote some of them).
Read moreAre Farmers to Blame for Factory Farming?
The problem with these systems is not malicious farmers, but production and retail systems that produce animal products for sale at a price that is wholly incompatible with a good life for the animals unfortunate enough to be caught up in them.
Read moreHow to Become a Vegetarian Family in Three Quick and Easy Steps! or, more accurately, How One Family Gradually Became Vegetarian Over the Course of Five Years
After much discussion, we agreed that a vegetarian diet would be a great reflection of pacifism: one might respond to Jesus Christ’s completion of sacrifice by trying not to rely on killing animals to provide for one’s own thriving.
Read moreEat Vegan, Save the World?
But as the church, our job isn’t to save the world. Our job is to stop, to look for the reconciling work of Christ, and to join that—to pray “thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”
Read moreHoly Week and the Groaning of Creation
I've been reflecting on Paul's vision of a groaning creation with a Lenten group at church in the past weeks (Romans 8.18–25). I hadn't thought of it before in connection with Holy Week, but this year the link seems inescapable. The groans of fellow human and non-human creatures have never sounded louder to me.
Read moreWhy Focus on Farmed Animals?
CreatureKind focuses on farmed animals because, in terms of both quantity and quality, the animals in our industrial farm animal production system are the most oppressed, abused, and disregarded animals in the world.
Read moreDidn’t God Give Us Animals to Use?
Photo: Jane Pearce
Christians generally agree that animals belong to God, are sustained by God, and that their purpose is to reveal the character of and offer praise to their Creator.
Read moreWhere Charity and Love Are: A Reflection on Farmed Animal Care and Advocacy
Photo: Jane Pearce
Ubi caritas et amour, Deus ibi est. Where charity and love are, God is there.
Read moreWhy Should Christians Care About Animals?
What does it mean for you, as a Christian, to care for God’s creatures? How do you practice this care in your day-to-day life? Let us hear from you!
Read moreWhy CreatureKind?
Photo: Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals
Seeing ourselves as one creature among many is therefore a profound truth of Christian faith. There are two kinds of things: God and God’s creatures. We’re one of the second kind: we’re creaturekind.
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