Topic: animal rights

  • Nature’s Lessons for a Kinder Society: The Wisdom of Frans de Waal

    There is a popular belief about Nature that we live in a dog-eat-world of brutish survival of the fittest. If such a pessimistic world view ever makes you depressed, primate psychologist Frans de Waal offers an optimistic counterpoint. He found striking evidence that animals other than humans have empathy and a sense of fair play,…

  • Celebration of Animals

    Today, we shall celebrate the creatures of the earth.  We will have the blessing of the animals at 3:00 p.m. today. Special Event, Blessing of the Animals. Rev. Stephen Robinson

  • The Language of Love

    Through a lifetime of living with animals of all types, I have learned we share the common love languages. I will be discussing what those love languages are, and how we all use them. I hope all walk away challenged to see the similar desires, needs, and lives both human and non-human animals share, along…

  • To Plant Kindness in People’s Hearts

    [On Henry Bergh and the ASPCA]   The Rev. Jennie Ann Barrington, Interim Minister   Opening Words: [Attributed to Edmund Burke] “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good [people] to do nothing.”   The Morning Reading: “Kindness,” by Naomi Shihab Nye   Before you know what kindness really is you…

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