The September-October Peaceable Table is Now Online

[Gracia Fay Ellwood]

In this issue:

• The Glimpse of the Peaceable Kingdom tells of the liberation, and mutual devot, of two mated sparrowhawks.  The story comes from the writings of Loren Eiseley, 1907 - 1977.
• The dramatic tale of Grand Duchess Elisabeth Romanov, who became a  vegetarian, a nun serving the slum-dwellers of Moscow, and finally a martyr during the Bolshevik Revolution of 1918, is our Pioneer and Editor's Corner Guest Essay.
• One of the NewsNotes gives the good news that the nomination by the present administration of an enemy of wild horses to head the Bureau of Land Management has been withdrawn, thanks to agitation by members of IN DEFENSE OF ANIMALS.
• Paleontologist and Roman Catholic priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin declared, prophetically, that the present chaos in the world is not the end but the labor pains of a new earth and a new humanity coming to birth.  See Unset Gems.
• Homo Ahimsa:  Who we really are and how we are going to save the world is the book Reviewed in this issue.  Judy Carman's most recent book tells us how urgent the condition of the earth and its inhabitants is, and what we must--and still can!--do to turn it around.  A must-read.
• Enjoy the Black Bean and Corn Salad that you'll make from this month's Recipe by Angela Suarez--perfect for a warm summer evening.
• The fifteenth-century Indian poet and mystic Kabir penned our Poetry selection for this issue.  It is an untitled work in which the human narrator asks a swan about his origins and destination, and offers to lead him to a paradisal world of union with God and every creature.

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Toward the Peaceable Kingdom,
Gracia Fay Ellwood
Editor

"You must treat the foreigner living among you as native-born and love him as yourself, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt."--Lev. 19:34