A relationship between the non-human animals and the divine can be found throughout the Hebrew and Christian scriptures, and Jesus is often with the animals — from his birth among the creatures of the barn to his time with the wild beasts in the desert.
Read moreCreatureKind Corner: Compelling Verses in Scripture
A Palestinian Christian youth reads a Bible text.
Q: What is hands down the most compelling and powerful verse in the Bible that promises God's love towards all his creatures? How do you suggest I apply that in my conversations to those who A. might not believe in God but love animals and/or B. might not love animals but believe in God?
Read moreCreatureKind Corner: Why do Animals Suffer? One Response and Three Recipes
Why do animals suffer? It’s a big question—an ancient, continuing, and persisting question. We have no divine FAQ page about God’s intentions. We have no single, simple, satisfying answer. As humans, we are bound to the limits of our creaturely capacities to interpret scripture, but we can do so in conversation with the church’s rich heritage of teachers, preachers, ministers, and heroes of the faith.
Read moreRecipe for a Psalm of Lament
Pray all parts together, feeling the tension between the parts and offering all of your feelings to God.
Read moreHow Do We Name Our Fellow Creatures?
The movement of the heart is the Spirit’s transformative action within a believer which brings to birth a new person in Christ ...
Read moreCreatureKind Corner: What Does Jesus Say?
Introducing the CreatureKind Corner, a series where we’ll answer questions submitted by readers about Christian theology and animal protection.
Read moreA Spirit-filled Church for All Creation
This Pentecost, let's open ourselves to the disruption of the Spirit that expands our Gospel mission. Let's take even more seriously what it might mean to proclaim the gospel to all creation. Where might that lead us?
Read moreWorshipping Together: How to Include "Animal People" in the Life of the Church
I cannot tell you the number of people I’ve spoken to in person and online who slowly drifted away from the life of the faith after becoming concerned with the way the world treats animals today.
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.
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