Weekly Newsletter from Christian Vegetarian Association CVA - November 27, 2019
From Christian Vegetarian Association (CVA)
- Activist Feedback
- The November-December issue of “Peaceable Table” Is Now Online
- All-Creatures.org Ministry
We apologize for the interruption in the CVA e-newsletter, which was
related to software problems. We wish everyone a Happy (i.e., compassionate,
peace-filled) Thanksgiving.
1. Activist Feedback
Rick Hershey writes:
I handed out 600 CVA booklets mostly to adults at the BOK Center in Tulsa
today for the MercyMe concert in Tulsa, OK. The crowd was not very receptive
toward accepting a booklet.
2. The November-December “Peaceable Table” Is Now Online
Contents include:
- The Glimpse of the Peaceable Kingdom features an incident in which a
compassionate mare protected a newborn fawn from coyotes until his mother
recovered from labor, and mother and baby could escape together.
- "What if God is the Water?" is idea spawned by David Foster Wallace's famous
parable of the three fishes and developed in the Editor's Corner Essay. It
asserts that God/dess is the oceanic matrix that links all living beings, us
human animals and our cousins, the other kind.
- One of the NewsNotes tells of actor Joachin Phoenix's appearance at one of
the weekly vigils sponsored by Animal Save at the Los Angeles Farmer John
pig slaughterhell.
- In the Letter column, author and photographer A.J. Morey underlines the
importance of Richard Phillips, the brave and compassionate
eighteenth-century editor featured as Pioneer in the most recent PT.
- Our Pioneer in this issue is Thomas Tryon, a remarkable seventeenth-century
self-made Englishman. Born into the working class, he taught himself to read
and write, and wrote with passion, defending animals and promoting
vegetarianism.
- Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Eating Animals, has done it again, with a
new book entitled Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast. He holds that
supporting reducitarianism, getting many people to cut substantially back on
flesh-eating, will have greater environmental benefit that promoting
veganism only. Reviewed by Robert Ellwood.
- Our Recipe this month is for a tasty, sugar-free apple cake that won first
prize at the Alaska State Fair. It comes from The Peaceable Kitchen, a
cookbook produced by the Sandpoint (Idaho) Friends.
- In our Poetry column we feature two songs that use the image of the divine
ocean: the chant "We All Come from the Goddess" and the 1890 hymn "O the
Deep Deep Love of Jesus," with links to the music. Enjoy!
To read this issue, go to
http://www.vegetarianfriends.net/issue158.html.
If you are super-busy and don't have much time, be sure at least to check
the Glimpse of the Peaceable Kingdom, which will lift your spirits.
Toward that Kingdom,
Gracia Fay Ellwood, Editor
P.S. My book Taking the Adventure: Faith and Our Kinship with Animals might
make the right Christmas of Hanukkah present for a friend or relative who is
coming close to adventuring on a life of compassionate dining.
3. All-Creatures.Org Ministry
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