Rusty Pritchard of Flourish Magazine recently interviewed Mark Linfield, co-director of Chimpanzee, to be released today in theaters across the United States. FLOURISH MAGAZINE: What inspired you to make Chimpanzee? Mark Linfield: … [Read more...]
Interview: Mark Linfield, Director of Disneynature Feature Chimpanzee
April 20, 2012 by Leave a Comment
A Call to Compassion from Our Brothers the Animals
March 1, 2012 by 5 Comments
By Kendra Langdon Juskus Flourish, Spring 2012 “Oh God, enlarge within us the sense of fellowship with all living things, our brothers the animals to whom Thou gavest the earth in common with us. . . . May we realize that they love the … [Read more...]
Ask the Animals, and They Will Teach You
July 4, 2011 by 4 Comments
By Karen Swallow Prior Flourish magazine, Spring 2011 "He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals." - Immanuel Kant Literature—from the … [Read more...]
The Distinction Between Humans and Animals: Make Way for “Non-Human Persons?”
August 11, 2010 by Leave a Comment
by Ben DeVries [Ed. note: This article is part of our series of weekly reflections, called Deep Down Things, published on Wednesdays.] Lauren Merritt recently pointed me to a post from Albert Mohler, president of Southern … [Read more...]
Quotable Creation Care: Irenaeus
July 13, 2010 by Leave a Comment
"These creatures minister to our needs every day: without them we could not live; and through them the human race greatly offends the Creator. We fail every day to appreciate so great a blessing by not praising as we should the Creator and Dispenser … [Read more...]
Book | Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
April 26, 2010 by 3 Comments
Reviewed by Ben DeVries of Not One Sparrow Flourish Magazine, Spring 2010 What would make Jonathan Safran Foer, a talented and successful young novelist (Everything is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close), decide to spend … [Read more...]
The Art of Animals
December 16, 2009 by 4 Comments
By Ben DeVries of Not One Sparrow [Ed. note: this article is part of our weekly series of reflections called Deep Down Things, published on Wednesdays.] This summer I bumped into the work of Croatian artist Lidija Ivanek, much of which has … [Read more...]