In this compelling exploration of how a first step on a path of faithfulness can begin a lifelong journey, we see how way opens in one Quaker's life. A disturbing college science experiment leads Margaret Fisher to re-examine her relationship with animal life and to eliminate meat from her diet. Her understanding deepens as she explores the practical and spiritual challenges of living her convictions – in her personal, professional, and family life, and in her spiritual community. Her leading matures into a ministry in which she invites us to widen our circle of love to include all the living world. Discussion questions included.

Fisher writes eloquently about her story and her ministry to bring a loving challenge to Friends and others on the spiritual aspects of vegetarianism and veganism. While she explains the ethical, health, and environmental reasons for vegan choice, she focuses compellingly on the spiritual reasons. She calls us to see the reality of our relationships to animals as practiced in our factory-farming society, as part of encountering Divine Reality.
The compassion, humility, openness and listening, courage and faithfulness, gentleness and conviction that Fisher brings to her ministry encourage us to similarly face the challenge she presents to so many of us. As she says, Quakerism is all about helping each other on our spiritual paths. However we respond, this is a valuable pamphlet for doing so. ( )

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