Read a New York Times story on the federal judge’s ruling of ‘intelligent design’ as “unconstitutional” to be taught in high school science classes due to it’s connection to “a particular version of christianity.”

Read an Associated Press article about Judge John E. Jones’ decision to ban ‘intelligent design’ from the school’s biology curriculum.

Read a September 2005 Christianity Today article on New Monasticism.

The Simple Way is a New Monasticism movement based in Philadelphia.

Read a Jan. 30, 2005, Newsweek article about the current debate over intelligent design and evolution as reprinted on the Discovery Institute’s web site.

Dec. 21, 2005, Aljazeera article about the Kitzmiller v. Dover decision made by the U.S court concerning evolution and intelligent design in public schools.

Charles Robert Pinches is a professor of theology and religious studies at the University of Scranton, Pa. He has written about Christian approaches to animal well-being.

Donna Yarri is an associate professor of theology at Alvernia College in Reading, Pa. She has written multiple times on animals and religion.

David Hufford is professor and director at the Doctors Kienle Center for Humanistic Medicine at the Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey. He teaches and does research on religion and health and folk and alternative health systems.