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SCRIPTURE AND PRAYER "Be still and know that I am God."                                       Psalm 46:10         This week I wanted to share two posts from other sources and three links.  Both posts help to bring us back to our foundations as animal activists in faith communities.  For me, it is a time to take some necessary refreshment, and to return to the fundamentals.              The first link is to a post from the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention.  10 Biblical Truths About Animals , by Barrett Duke, provides an overview of basic scriptural teachings about animals. It is a good reminder that scripture has a great deal to say about our fellow creatures.  As animal activists in our faith communities, we must be firmly grounded in s...

DO ANIMALS SIN?             “The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled.   So the Lord said, ‘I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created – and with them the animals, the birds and creatures that move along the ground – for I regret that I have made them.                                                                           ~   Genesis 6:6-7             Throughout his book, On Animals, David Clough consistently challenges our co...

ON HUMAN VALUE, CHILDREN, AND POLAR BEARS     “We care for creation because we love the God to whom it belongs and because we long to see God’s glory enhanced through creation and God’s pleasure in creation served through our loving care.”                                                                                                        Christopher Wright       I want to do two things in things in this post.  First, more or less in the spirit of "throwback Thursday," I want to link again to a post I did in November of 2013, On Image And Value .   That post considers some of the same issues raised in last week's pos t from a different angle.  Last week's post considered the sig...

THE HEART OF THE MATTER Animals and the Incarnation “The fundamental New Testament assertion concerning the incarnation, therefore, is not that God became a member of the species Homo sapiens , but that God took on flesh, the stuff of living creatures.”                                                 ~    David Clough             As we emerge from the Christmas season, and in part as a follow-up to my recent post about animals and heaven , I thought it appropriate this week to pick up again with David Clough’s book, On Animals , to consider what he has to say about the incarnation. [1]   In the incarnation, God became human. What does that have to do with animals? Quite a lot, actually. ...