Weekly Newsletter - March 18, 2015
From Christian Vegetarian Association (CVA)

  1. Should We Admit Guilt?
  2. This Week’s Sermon from Rev. Frank and Mary Hoffman

1. Should We Admit Guilt?

There was a recent story on The Moth podcast (one of my favorite podcasts) by a woman whose 3-year-old sister tragically drowned when the woman was 8 years old. She had refused to let her sister play with her that day, and she was heavily burdened by guilt for many years. She finally told her mother many years later, and her mother said it was really her own fault. She was busy and had told the girl to go and play with her boat. When the storyteller told her father (who had been divorced from her mother for many years), her father said it was his fault. He had seen the girl walking toward the pond with the boat but, being occupied, he did not recognize the danger.

So, all three believed they were responsible, but they had never told the others, evidently because they believed that, if the truth were known, they would no longer be loved.

Given their conviction at the time that they were responsible, did they do the right thing in keeping silent? I encourage responses, and I will offer some thoughts about how this question relates to animal issues next week.
 
Stephen R. Kaufman, MD

2. This Week’s Sermon from Rev. Frank and Mary Hoffman
 
War Mongering and Peacemaking 

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