But people being strangers to the covenant of life with God, they eat and drink to make themselves wanton with the creatures, wasting them upon their own lusts, and living in all filthiness, loving foul ways, and devouring the creation; and all this in the world, in the pollutions thereof, without God: therefore I was to shun all such.

The Journal of George Fox, p61

While there is no reason to imagine that George Fox understood the violence of consuming other beings of the divine, as I read this passage last night, I thought how apropos this quote is within the context of Vegan Quakerism.

“Devouring the creation” - like George, I realised that “I was to shun all such”!

May all beings know peace!

Aroha nui,

Tūruapō ❣

30 Jul 2025, 11.32 (GMT +13)

The Peaceable Kingdom

We are not of this world, but are redeemed out of it. Its ways, its customs, its worships, its weapons, we cannot follow. For we are come into the peaceable kingdom of Christ, where swords are beaten into ploughshares and spears into pruning hooks, and none shall hurt nor destroy. — George Fox, Epistle 203 (1659)