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The Gift Logic

Is a gift economy possible, and what is it, really? How might more real-world experiences of the gift logic shift our ideals of what kind of leadership is needed to serve the commons effectively in our time?

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To Give One’s Life Away

Toward a logic of generativity.

Anne Snyder
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Naked We Came

From the sermon “I Will Tear Down My Barns,” on Luke 12:16–21.

St. Basil the Great
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Human as Gift

You haven’t earned anything.

Nick Spencer
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Vol. 40

No. 01

04

To Give One’s Life Away

Toward a logic of generativity.

Anne Snyder
06

Naked We Came

From the sermon “I Will Tear Down My Barns,” on Luke 12:16–21.

St. Basil the Great
08

Human as Gift

You haven’t earned anything.

Nick Spencer
Explore

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Learning to offer our possessions and our selves freely.
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How efforts to turn relationships into capital make every everyone poorer.
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Why our economic imagination needs a new goal.
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- Louis Kim
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Finding the common root of cosmology, anthropology, and agriculture.
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In the Shadow of Jubilee

Entering God’s economy of grace.
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Lessons from René Girard and St. Ignatius of Loyola.
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Introducing the Welcome Table.
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The art of nurturing the life that really is life.

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