another green step

To celebrate Earth Day, I thought I'd share this very practical and encouraging post from Tracey Bianchi, a Christian creation care enthusiast and author of Green Mama, on cutting back a bit on meat for a number of very good reasons ...

I had a phase in college when I thought that perhaps I would become a vegetarian.  I had no real reason for doing so other than acting sort of hippie-ish seemed like an identity that I wanted to try on for a while.  That and a good friend at the time was a vegetarian.  Vegan was a little to extreme for my little experiment so I decided dairy would be okay, yogurt and ice-cream were close companions and I dared not part from them.

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the story of the Easter robin

With Good Friday and Easter coming up next weekend, I wanted to pass along a children's book which I recently reviewed for Vegbooks, Dandi Daley Mackall's The Story of the Easter Robin, illustrated by Anna Vojtech (Zonderkidz '10).  I found it to be a warm and compassionate story, and beautifully presented, though I had one or two suggestions for parents or other caretakers who might share the book with their children.  Here's my introduction to the review:

Christian children’s books about the biblical story of Easter or the animals we culturally associate with the celebration today (bunnies, chicks, etc.) are plentiful.  But books which are true to the original message of Christ’s resurrection and also communicate a message of genuine concern for animals are hard to find.  Because of this, The Story of the Easter Robin is worth noting ...

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