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?
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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
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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?
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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.
Read moreThis Lent, how about giving up indifference to farmed animals?
For any animal product you eat, consider the life of the animal that was used to produce it. That’s all.
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