Summary:  In Exodus 3:8 (NKJV), God speaks to Moses from the burning bush and announces His plan to deliver the Israelites from slavery in Egypt and bring them into Canaan, described as “a land flowing with milk and honey.” Israel then sets out toward Canaan, and the spies sent by Moses later confirm its extraordinary fertility with a massive cluster of grapes. The people’s fear causes a forty-year delay in the wilderness, and only the next generation, under Joshua, finally e

For the last 2000 years, numerous anti-vegan theologians and clergy have claimed that according to the Bible, animals, unlike humans, do not have a soul, and so it is ok for humans to exploit them, use them to the core, and kill them for food, for labour, for transport, for entertainment, for experimentation, etc. Yet, it is stated clearly in the Hebrew Scripture that animals, just like humans, are given a living soul (nephesh) and a spirit (ruach). Augustine & Aquinas St. Au

“Open your mouth for the speechless, in the cause of all who are appointed to die” (Proverbs 31:8). For sure, this applies to political dissidents imprisoned in dungeons, tortured, and organ-harvested by dictatorial regimes. Nonetheless, it also applies to animals crammed into small cages in dark factory farms, and throat-cut, scalded, cut open, and skinned alive in slaughterhouses and laboratories. These helpless, terrified creatures cannot speak for themselves. They have no

Saints Kosmas and Damian of Mesopotamia, the twin physician-saints known throughout the Christian East as the Holy Unmercenaries, were born in the province of Cilicia, probably in the city of Ægeæ, in the third century, to a pagan father and a profoundly devout Christian mother, Saint Theodotē, whose faith, compassion, and instruction shaped the whole course of their lives. Theodotē taught her sons to receive the healing arts as a gift from God and to offer medical care freel