The Friends We Keep: An Overview

June 15, 2011 by Baylor Press Publishers

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The Friends We Keep includes an extensive resource section, with a guide for group discussion; ideas for ways individuals and households -- as well as communities and congregations - can take action to help animals; a directory of Christian and secular organizations addressing animal issues; and recommendations of books and articles for further reading.

About the Author

Laura Hobgood-Oster, Photo: Jimmy Smith Laura Hobgood-Oster is Professor of Religion and Environmental Studies and holds the Paden Chair in Religion at Southwestern University. Featured in the documentary "Eating Mercifully," produced by the Humane Society of the United States, and frequently interviewed by national print and broadcast media, she is the author of Holy Dogs & Asses: Animals in the Christian Tradition and executive editor of the Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature. She lives in Georgetown, Texas.

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