I’m addicted to reading. Which means when I pick up a book, I selfishly insist the rest of the world freeze into a stationary backdrop so I can get lost in my new find. I come up for air a day or two later, after pouring through it cover to cover.
But with some books, I have to force a slower pace. Because something going on in the book is new or significant or has the potential to change me if I let it.
Awareness* by Anthony deMello and Thought Matters* by Mary Margaret Funk are definitely in this category for me. And to a lesser degree, so is Making Room* by Christine Pohl and maybe a dozen or so others that I can’t rattle off as easily.
I am always on the hunt for that next good read that challenges something inside me. And 150 pages or so into it, I am wondering if Dominion* by Matthew Scully, which was passed onto me by my good friend, Erik, might end up being that next important find.
Scully is a former speech-writer for George W., which might make him an unexpected candidate for pushing the more usually left-wing animal rights agenda. But the book doesn’t present a political platform, as much as it explores the moral dimensions surrounding the way society views animals.
I’ll post my thoughts, but the first few chapters have already driven me to do some research. “Dominion,” for example, is a word used multiples times in the Old Testament (depending on translation). It is most simply translated “to rule” and usually referred to a leader’s actions toward a subordinate. What doesn’t always come across in our English translation, though, is that the word “dominion” included the expectation that a master extend benevolence toward his subjects.
Want to read more? Continue with this blog series about Dominion here.
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