Deuteronomy 12 and Numbers 11 are often read as divine approval. In context they read as concession to appetite — and the story around them makes the difference clear.
This study is part of the Vegan Christian Discipleship School, where we take one hard question at a time and work through the relevant passages in context.
Back to Genesis and the original grant of food. What God actually handed over, and to whom, before anything went wrong.
Is caring for creation a side issue for Christians, or is it bound up in the gospel itself? This study traces the connection between the good news and the world God made.
Ignorance, tradition, deception, profit, and institutional caution. An honest look at why the church has been slow here.
A close reading of a phrase that carries a great deal of theological weight, and what it meant to the people who first wrote it down.
Who hunts in Scripture, and how those men are portrayed. Humanity is placed in a garden as a gardener, not sent into a field as a hunter.
Mark 7 is quoted at us constantly. The dispute in that chapter was about hand-washing traditions, not about what may be killed and eaten.