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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34. Facing the Past
On dismantling inequality by facing the past—especially an ancient law code from 2000 BCE and its rules about class and gender hierarchy
Jul 8, 2022
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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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17. The Law Is in the Ground
How the Aboriginal elder Doug Campbell followed the law of earth—and how this law contrasts with Western law, designed to protect property
Oct 30, 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.