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

Read a June 14, 2010, article from USA Today about religion and animal rights.

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.

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.

Written by Tyron Inbody (2007). Inbody analyzes and assesses the notion of an all-loving and omnipotent Deity found in classical religion and concludes with a radical reinterpretation of the Christian God as a vulnerable, transforming God, one recognized by both process and Trinitarian theology.

AmericanCatholic.org posts resources about St. Francis of Assisi, patron saint of animals. The site also keeps a nationwide list of pet/animal blessing ceremonies, many of which occur near his feast day, Oct. 4.

Feb. 25, 2009, The New York Times article about the Supreme Court ruling in Pleasant Grove City v. Summum that a Utah city park did not need to put up a monument to a small Utah-based religion (Summum) just because it had a monument to the Ten Commandments.

Oyez page for the 2009 Supreme Court Case Pleasant Grove City v. Summum.