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LOVE BUILDS UP: 1 Corinthians 8 Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that “We all possess knowledge.” But knowledge puffs up while love builds up.                                                                                     1 Cor 8:1             Last time, I considered the harm that working in high speed slaughterhouses and factory farms causes to humans in light of 1 Corinthian 8, in which Paul admonishes us always to act in love, being careful not to cause others to fall into sin.   With this post, I want to take a closer look at that passage from Paul’s first letter to the church in Corinth to see what it might have to tell us about loving our neighbors – with two feet and four – and about proclaiming th...

BACK TO WORK            I began my "summer hours" with Memorial Day weekend, and I will end them with Labor Day weekend.  Tomorrow I will post my September entry on this blog, which follows on from the August post.  After that, I will post a new essay every other week.  I am hopeful that will give me enough time to write some things worth reading.  On other weeks, I will try to post an interesting link or quote or other other tidbit.  Thanks for sticking with me this summer.  I hope yours was full of God's love and blessings - and was spent in the company of someone with fur.  

ON PTSD AND BACON Therefore, if food is a cause of their falling, I will never eat meat,  so that I may not cause one of them to fail.                                                                       - 1 Corinthians 8:13          I recently saw a link to a February 2014 article in Texas Observer, titled, "PTSD In The Slaughterhouse."   (I posted a link to it on the Dominion In The Image Of God Facebook page, so you may have seen it there.)  This came shortly after I attended the Humane Society of the United States' annual conference, Taking Action For Animals (TAFA), and the two incidents together gave me much food for thought.  The article is a short piece, and well worth clicking through to read, but here is what particularly caught my eye - a...