Tag Archives: animals

Do Animals Have Rights?

From Dean Ohlman on February 2, 2012

It seems to me that when we consider the proper treatment of animals we should speak of man’s responsibilities as steward rather than to speak of the rights of animals. It’s far easier for me to ignore the rights of … Continue reading »

Baptizing Cats

From Dean Ohlman on January 28, 2012

Let me share a delight with you: I’m reading Marilynne Robinson’s Pulitzer Prize novel Gilead. The novel is written as a memoire of an aging pastor to his seven-year-old son (offspring of a late second marriage—his first wife having died … Continue reading »

The Vision of Narnia

From Dean Ohlman on January 25, 2012

It was in preparation for this post that I first saw the amazing parallel between Psalm 148:1-6, 11-13 and  Revelation 5:5:11-13.  Each passage offers hymns of praise to the Creator—the Psalm written almost a thousand years before the first coming … Continue reading »

“Far As the Curse Is Found”

From Dean Ohlman on December 25, 2011

Currently lost in my files is a print of a painting that depicts Jesus in the arms of Mary with a small bird perched on His finger. That and this etching in which it seems that Jesus is instructing Mary … Continue reading »

Is It Really Hopeless?

From Dean Ohlman on December 16, 2011

I used to be a member of the Audubon Society—in large part in order to receive the always enjoyable Audubon magazine.  My membership, of course, also gave me access to the local society meetings, which I attended for a while.  … Continue reading »