Read a June 2, 2010, article from the Guest Voices/On Faith blog on The Washington Post about our religious commitment to preserve the environment.

Read a July 13, 2009, article from Christianity Today about the Christian need to show compassion for animals.

Read an April 26, 2010, excerpt about a religious perspective on factory farming published in The Huffington Post from Jonathan Merritt’s Green Like God: Unlocking the Divine Plan for Our Planet.

Read a March 30, 2010, article originally published by The Scriptorium Daily on how theology influences the animal rights movement.

Zoo Torah is the blog of Israeli Rabbi Natan Slifkin, who uses the Jewish scriptures to teach about Judaism and its relation to animals.

Humane Religion was once a bimonthly magazine devoted to promoting a Christianity dedicated to animal welfare, based in Sarasota, Fla. It is affiliated with all-creatures.org.

The Animals Voice is a nonprofit animal rights organization that publishes an online magazine of the same name. It is based in Chico, Calif. Contact through the website.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service dedicates a section of its Web site to animal welfare issues.

The Web site of the annual Taking Action for Animals conference, sponsored by the Humane Society of the United States, includes a list of speakers at the 2008 gathering, some of whom represent religiously motivated animal rights/welfare groups. Email through the website.