How is it that humans can feel so different from their fellow humans, and yet feel a kinship and commonality with creatures of other species? And of all other land-animals, none looks as “other” as the elephant, but we have a strange history of a deep-felt connection with this stony-skinned gentle giant.

john (lower case intentional) Snodgrass is a frequent and popular speaker at UU Amherst. An instructor in Religion at Canisius University, john is also a playwright and author of many books, the most recent being Shakespeare’s Goddess.