I look forward to the time when the churches come to celebrate and honour the work of animal protection as an imperative arising from their belief in….

Christian theology provides some of the best arguments for respecting animal life and for taking seriously animals as partners with us within God's c….

It is an unfortunate fact that those people who are most eloquent in their demand for the conservation of animals are often those most eager to viola….

It took Christians many years to realize that we cannot love God and also keep humans as slaves. It has taken even longer for Christians to realize t….

The Bible nowhere says that animals are just made for human use. It does not say that the whole earth is just ours to do with as we like. Neither doe….

The biblical case for vegetarianism does not rest on the view that killing may never be allowable in the eyes of God, rather on the view that killing….

If tomorrow we decided only to desist from killing and causing suffering for sport and entertainment, the world would be significantly better for ani….

Despite one or two minority appeals our society is not outraged at man's unremitting use of the animal world. Ecologists and environmentalists may ta….

When I was in my teens I had a series of intensely religious experiences. They deepened my sense of God as the creator of all things. And they also d….

I would happily, sometimes more than happily, have vacated my role as an animal theologian, if there were others prepared to take my place..

Animals are God's creatures, not human property, nor utilities, nor resources, nor commodities, but precious beings in God's sight. ...Christians who….

The point to be grasped from the saintly tradition is that to love animals is not sentimentality (as we know it) but true spirituality. Of course th….

We can't change the world for animals without changing our ideas about animals. We have to move from the idea that animals are things, tools, machine….

For if animals are God's creatures, we have no absolute rights over them, only the duty to look after them as God would look after them. To stand wit….

Moral education, as I understand it, is not about inculcating obedience to law or cultivating self-virtue, it is rather about finding within us an ev….

There are only two ways to deal with the media: either elect to take the Buddha's vow of eternal silence, or make one's voice known as responsibly as….

In God's eyes, all creatures have value whether we find them cuddly, affectionate, beautiful or otherwise. Our own perspective-in a way-is neither h….

Although Christianity has a poor record on animals (as it does, it must be said, on the treatment of slaves, women, children, and gays), it is also t….

Humans have "dominion" over animals. But that "dominion" (radah in Hebrew) does not mean despotism, rather we are set over creation to care for what ….

If the cross does provide us with a true picture of what God is like, it follows that God is a redeeming presence in all creaturely experiences of su….

Familiarity with holy things can often engender blindness, and churches are, for all their merits, institutions that embody, perhaps more than most, ….