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Weekly Newsletter from Christian Vegetarian Association CVA - December 28, 2022
From Christian Vegetarian Association (CVA)
1. Support Our Ministry
The CVA is gearing up for another Winter Jam leafleting season, for which we plan to print more Joyful, Compassionate Eating booklets. Please consider an end-of-year donation, and we also need volunteers to leaflet at Christian events, table at veg fests and other events, and lead Christian Education sessions. Contact lorenavalenziveg@gmail.com if you can help.
2. Humility vs. Certainty
Intellectual humility can engender wisdom, while overconfidence and certainty often close minds to deeper understanding of complex issues. Humility raises at least two challenges, however, one of which is personal and the other is societal.
At a personal level, it is comforting to have confidence in answers to fundamental existential questions, such as: Where did I come from? What am I supposed to do with my life? What happens to me when I die? These are tough questions, which people have struggled to answer for millennia. Nonetheless, many people with different, incompatible answers have claimed with certainty that their own answers are correct.
At a societal level, people often feel overwhelmed by the volume of information. We cannot have expertise across the vast range of topics that impact our own lives, and it is even more challenging to be sufficiently knowledgeable about economic, defense, immigration, social justice, international policy, and other issues to vote responsibly in a representative democracy. It is tempting to put one’s trust in a single individual, political party, or religious institution as a source of knowledge and guidance. It is not necessary to believe that one’s leaders are infallible, only that the leaders will protect one’s interests and core values.
The problem, of course, is that those in power are often not trustworthy, however skilled they might be at getting people to believe in them. Many of history’s greatest atrocities came at the hands of people who uncritically followed the dictates of malevolent leaders. Skepticism takes work, particularly in the complex world in which we live. How can we be responsible citizens who make intelligent and ethical choices? I will offer some suggestions next.
Stephen R. Kaufman, M.D.
3. From All-Creatures.Org Ministry
Dear Friends,
We hope you are enjoying this last week in 2022. Peace be with you!
Not only will you find today’s newsletter filled with cruelty free holiday
news, and vegan faith-based & animal rights information to keep you up to
date with all that is going on but also the special additional section of
Fantastic Wins for Animals in 2022!!!!
Enjoy!!!!
All-Creatures.org Newsletter for December 28, 2022
FANTASTIC Wins for ANIMALS in 2022!
In the Love of the Lord,
Frank L Hoffman
All-Creatures.org
and
Kindness,
Tams Nicholson
Executive Directress
All-Creatures.org
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