Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Bard College Bruce Chilton (2011) offers compelling ideas about the words...

Summary:  The original Eucharist was a vegan thanksgiving Messianic Banquet, subsequently transformed into a bizarre, abstruse,...

The Cathars were a compassionate, vegan/vegetarian, egalitarian, deeply spiritual Christian dualist sect that flourished in parts of...

Abstract : There are two opposing forces in the Bible -- the vegan prophets versus the greedy priests (cf. Tabor 2024). Analogously, t...

Abstract:  John Calvin is a typical hypocrite when it comes to animals. On the one hand, he describes the animal world as a “most...

“In the center, grouped around the throne itself, were four animals…The first animal was like a lion, the second like a bull, the third...

God and Christ do not require the bloodshed of any sentient being to forgive our sins.   1. Jesus Forgives the Adulterous Woman   After...

1. Introduction: In a 22 Dec. 2022 interview with Derek Lambert, host of the MythVisionPodcast, Prof. James Daniel Tabor discusses the...

Summary : According to Andrew Remington Rillera’s 2024 book, Lamb of the Free , neither animal sacrifices in the OT nor Jesus’ death in...

Animal rights advocates often ponder what animals would say if they could speak. The Torah provides an answer through the story of Balaam...

Pastor Robert Munro (2024), the founder of the Humanitarian Church, New York, argues that many good people have been brainwashed by the...

Both God and Jesus Christ are minded to shield you in the same way a hen covers her chicks with her wings, yet you choose to consume...

There are five great prophets from the Old Testament who expressed opposition to animal sacrifice or showed sympathy for animals, and...

Today (September 25) we celebrate St Sergius of Radonezh (1314 –1392), a spiritual leader and monastic reformer of medieval Russia....

Just as in the Old Testament there were vegan, anti-animal-sacrifice prophets in contrast to carnist, pro-animal-sacrifice chief priests,...

Hymn 31 (Thompson 1988:196)   1. Dear Holy Spirit, tenderest of doves, Make me to love creatures as You do above Give me compassion more...

According to Rebecca Rutt (2024), a researcher at the University of Copenhagen, the global egg industry kills approximately 7 billion...

In the last 400 years, English merchant and writer Thomas Tryon (1634-1703) (note 1) is the first Christian theologian to make...

Summary : After healing a leper upon his earnest request, Jesus told him not to tell anybody but go to the priest and “offer for your...

In the last 400 years, English merchant and writer Thomas Tryon (1634-1703) (note 1) is the first Christian theologian to make...