Resources

Theology and Animals

• Bauckham, Richard. Living With Other Creatures: Green Exegesis and Theology. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2011. 

• Camosy, Charles. For Love of Animals: Christian Ethics, Consistent Action. Cincinnati: Franciscan, 2013.

• Clough, David L., On Animals: Systematic Theology, Volume 1. London: Bloomsbury, 2012. 

• Clough, David L. On Animals: Theological Ethics, Volume II.  London: T&T Clark, 2018. 

• Deane-Drummond, Celia and David Clough, eds. Creaturely Theology: On God, Humans, and Other Animals. London:SCM Press, 2009.

• Gilmour, Michael J. Eden's Other Residents: The Bible and Animals. Wipf and Stock, 2014.

• Greenway, William, For The Love Of All Creatures: The Story Of Grace In Genesis. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2015.

• Gross, Aaron S., The Question of the Animal and Religion. Columbia University Press, 2015.

• Hobgood-Oster, Laura.  The Friends We Keep: Unleashing Christianity's Compassion for Animals. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2010.
•  Johnson, Elizabeth A.  Ask The Beasts: Darwin and the God of Love.  Bloomsbury, 2014.
• Johnson, Elizabeth A. Creation and the Cross:  The Mercy of God for a Planet in Peril. Orbis Books, 2018.  

• King, Sarah Withrow.  Vegangelical:  How caring for animals can shape your faith.  Zondervan 2016.

• Linzey, Andrew. Animal Gospel. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1998.

• Linzey, Andrew. Animal Theology. Champagne, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1995.

• Linzey, Andrew. Creatures of the Same God. New York: Lantern Books, 2009.

• Linzey, Andrew. Why Animal Suffering Matters. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.

• Linzey, Andrew, and Paul Barry Clarke. Animal Rights. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004.

•  Linzey, Andrew, and Tom Regan. Animals & Christianity: A Book of Readings. Eugene: Wipf & Stock, 1990.  

• Miller, Daniel K.  Animal Ethics and Theology: The Lens of the Good Samaritan. New York: Routledge, 2012.

• Primatt, Humphrey. A Dissertation on the Duty of Mercy and the Sin of Cruelty to Brute Animals. Google Books. 1776. A Dissertation on the Duty of Mercy and the Sin of Cruelty to Brute Animals

• Wesley, John. Sermon 60, "The General Deliverance". 1872, Sermon 60 The General Deliverance  

• York, Tripp and Andy Alexis-Baker, eds. A Faith Embracing All Creatures: Addressing Commonly Asked Questions about Christian Care for Animals. Eugene: Cascade Books, 2012. 
  
• Sarx - a UK-based organization  with numerous interviews and resources on Christianity and animal wefare 
  

Animal Sentience

• Balcombe, Jonathan. Second Nature. New York: Palgrave http://wesley.nnu.edu/john-wesley/the-sermons-of-john-wesley-1872-edition/sermon-60-the-general-deliverance/Macmillan, 2010.

• Balcomb, Jonathan.  What a Fish Knows. New York: Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016. 

• Bekoff, Marc. The Emotional Lives of Animals. Novato: New World Library, 2007 New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2017.

• Hatkoff, Amy. The Inner World of Farm Animals. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2009. 

• Safina, Carl. Beyond Words: What Animals Think And Feel. Henry Holt and Co., LLC, 2015.

• Slobodchikoff, Con.  Chasing Dr. Doolittle: Learning the Language of Animals. St. Martin's Press, 2012.
  

Animal Welfare

•  Farm Sanctuary

•  Humane Society of the United States

• Animal Welfare Institute

• Mercy For Animals

• Compassion in World Farming 

• Farm Forward

• Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy  
  

• Foer, Jonathan Safran. Eating Animals. New York: Little, Brown & Company, 2009 

• Lymbery, Philip and Oakenshott, Isabel.  Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat. London: Bloomsbury, 2014.

• Patterson, Charles. Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and The Holocaust.  New York: Lantern Books, 2002.

• Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production. Putting Meat on the Table: Industrial Farm Animal Production in America. Washington: The Pew Charitable Trust Foundation and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2008.

• Scully, Matthew. Dominion: The Power of Man, The Suffering of Animals, and The Call to Mercy. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 2002.

Cruelty-Free Shopping

•   Leaping Bunny Shopping Guide

Plant-Based Diet

• Physicians Committee For Responsible Medicine 
• Forks Over Knives 
• Kathy Freston
  
• tryveg.com 
• Vegan Outreach Starter Guide  
• Farm Sanctuary Guide to Plant-Based Eating  
• Compassion in World Farming 
• Global Center for Climate Justice report, A Green New Meal: How Factory Farming Fuels Climate Injustice and What We Can Do About It 
• Food Empowerment Project
  
• Baur, Gene.  Living The Farm Sanctuary Life. New York: Rodale, 2015. 
• Bittman, Mark.  How To Cook Everything Vegetarian: Simple Recipes for Great Food. Hoboken: Wiley Publishing, Inc., 2007. 
  

Prayers

• Prayer attributed to St. Basil: The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof. O God, enlarge within us the sense of fellowship with all living things, our brothers the animals to whom you gave the earth as their home in common with us. We remember with shame that in the past we have exercised the high dominion of man with ruthless cruelty so that the voice of the earth, which should have gone up to you in song, has been a groan of travail. May we realize that they live not for us alone but for themselves and for you and that they love the sweetness of life. In Christ’s name, Amen.

• Prayer for the Animals attributed to St. Francis (with later additions):  God, Our Heavenly Father, You created the world to serve humanity's needs and to lead them to You. By our own fault we have lost the beautiful relationship which we once had with all your creation. Help us to see that by restoring our relationship with You we will also restore it with all Your creation. Give us the grace to see all animals as gifts from You and to treat them with respect for they are Your creation. We pray for all animals who are suffering as a result of our neglect. May the order You originally established be once again restored to the whole world through the intercession of the Glorious Virgin Mary, the prayers of Saint Francis and the merits of Your Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with You now and forever. Amen.

• Prayer for the Animals attributed to Albert Schweitzer:  Hear our humble prayer, O God, for our friends the animals, especially for animals who are suffering; for animals that are overworked, underfed and cruelly treated; for all wistful creatures in captivity that beat their wings against bars; for any that are hunted or lost or deserted or frightened or hungry; for all that must be put to death. We entreat for them all Thy mercy and pity, and for those who deal with them we ask a heart of compassion and gentle hands and kindly words. Make us, ourselves, to be true friends to animals, and so to share the blessings of the merciful.

• Prayer from the Liturgy of the Liberal Catholic Church (London: St. Alban Press, 1982), p. 468.Almighty and Merciful Father, whose care and loving kindness are over all thy creation, breathe forth into us thy spirit of compassion and tenderness towards all creatures thou hast made and in whom thou are the indwelling life. Teach us, O Lord, to look upon our younger brethren as a trust from thee, that the day may be hastened when men shall neither hurt not destroy in all thy holy mountain, through Christ our Lord.