Nature :: Spirit
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When Christians Denounced Inequality
Before the church adopted the empire’s rules
Jul 16, 2025
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55. Orbs of Buttery Goodness
Or, what my avocado tree has to say about world relations
Mar 22, 2025
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39. The Knowing Inside: Sovereignty of Mind
Or why sovereignty of mind is the first requirement of democracy
Feb 12, 2025
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24. A Duty of Care
Four Indigenous voices on how their communities build care for land and people into the fabric of life—and how care dropped out of Western public values
May 28, 2021
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22. An Inheritance Problem
What a story from Roman Empire times can tell us about making a world where equality is normal—and how it hinges on changing a legal system that protects property
Mar 5, 2021
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19. Filling the Hungry With Good Things: A Christmas Meditation
The revolutionary song of a young mother-to-be about upending the social order
Dec 24, 2020
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5. On Masks and Fear and a Truer Story of Nature
What denial of a virus has to do with whiteness
Jul 3, 2020
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1. Earth Is Our Witness
Inspiration from philosopher bell hooks and her grandfather, Daddy Jerry, on "the great democratic gift the earth offers us"
Jun 5, 2020
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We have to put the health of the Earth absolutely first. It will mean listening with humility to what the animals and plants and trees and insects need to thrive. It will mean putting their needs first, for they were here first; they prepared the Earth to be friendly to human evolution. Our lives depend on their lives, our health on their health. It will mean loving the Earth, the body of us all. Transforming the law to value ownership less, and health and life more.