All throughout “Beasts of the Earth,” Wade writes about God. From the prologue to the very last pages, he portrays God as aloof, unfeeling and apathetic to human suffering. The underlying message is ...

For example, my commitment to vegetarianism, though resting on other grounds, is reinforced by the ideal picture in Genesis 1, where humans and beasts are given only “green herbs” to eat.

In the 1970s, Vallotton drew the simple illustrations for the Good News Bible, a new basic English translation. She provided 500 line drawings of figures dancing, praying, fighting and raising the ...

How the Bible describes the sea may also contribute to negative interpretations of it. God often uses the sea as a “tool of judgment against sin,” Lovett says, and Satan and other evil beasts ...