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Because he had no pity Nathan’s Confrontation of David in 2 Samuel 12 David’s burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan, “As surely as the Lord lives, the man who did this must die!   He must pay for that lamb four times over because he did such a thing and had no pity." Then Nathan said to David, "You are the man!"                                                                                   ~ 2 Samuel 12:5-7             While scripture is replete with stories of animals, we rarely focus on them, unless we consider...

COMMON CREATURELINESS: CREATION CARE AND ANIMALS, PART FOUR “For the fate of humans and the fate of animals is the same; as one dies, so dies the other.   They all have the same breath and humans have no advantage over the animals; for all is vanity.   All go to one place; all are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.”                                                                   ~ Ecclesiastes 3:19-20.             In my last three posts, I have looked at the work of various creation care authors who, while making many excellent points regarding our right relationship with the earth, have faile...

IS VEGETARIANISM CONTRARY TO GOD’S INTENTIONS? CREATION CARE AND ANIMALS, PART THREE In my last two posts, here and here , I have considered the ways in which creation care has made great strides in moving us away from thinking of humans as entitled to exploit the earth, but has failed to bring us to accountability for our treatment of animals.     Too often, creation care authors consider animals as part of “nature,” to be grouped together with plants and waterways, rather than as individual sentient beings, more similar to humans than trees.   Norman Wirzba is a well-known agrarian theologian whose book, Food & Faith: A Theology of Eating [1] , illustrates how failing to make this distinction can lead to conclusions that I believe are seriously flawed theologically, ethically, and practically.    Wirzba proposes that choosing not to eat meat may be thwarting God’s intentions. Wirzba’s reasoning is complex, beginning with the inevitability of death and th...