The Universal Equalitarian Church is based on the principle that all species are created equal. It is based in Lamar, Mo.

July 5, 2013, Episcopal News Service article about homelessness in Canada and the responses of the Anglican and Lutheran churches.

The Episcopal Network for Animal Welfare is a volunteer organization of clergy and lay people within the Episcopal Church who would like to raise awareness of animal welfare in Episcopal congregations.

Read a Nov. 6, 2007, Los Angeles Times article about the faith community’s growing receptiveness to animal-welfare concerns.

Read a July 18, 2008, article in the Columbia Missourian about the religious underpinnings for Rabbi Yossi Feintuch’s decision to be a vegetarian.

Read a June 25, 2010, article from the United Methodist News Service about churches’ efforts to aid animals.

Read a June 18, 2010, article in The Columbus Dispatch about how animals should be treated according to a religious perspective.

Summum is a religion and philosophy founded by Claude Nowell in 1975. Contact through the website.

Ken Wilson is senior pastor at the Vineyard Church of Ann Arbor, Mich., which encourages its members to make fixed-hour prayers, an unusual thing for a nondenominational church to do.