Covenant: Moving from Contract to Commitment, Reader Imagining New Neighborly Covenants Covenant is a different way of ordering social relationships. It leads to a more intimate, a more interdependent way of being. Contracts are more based on agreement between autonomous individuals.…
Covenant: Moving from Contract to Commitment, Reader Agency Plus Resolve The Exodus narrative describes a covenant in which the oppressed collaborate with “a force larger than themselves” to depart a system of anxiety to go out and create an alternative,…
Covenant: Moving from Contract to Commitment, Reader Opening for Mystery The free market consumer ideology promises a world of predictability and safety. It is repulsed by surprise and believes that all things are eventually knowable. It believes in the limitless…
Covenant: Moving from Contract to Commitment, Reader Abundance over Scarcity Scarcity is the deep belief that no matter how much we have, it is not enough. Therefore, more scale and growth is always required. Grow or die. The system of…
Covenant: Moving from Contract to Commitment, Reader Trusting that We are not Rivals, but Neighbors A culture of contest and contract regards everyone else as a competitor or a rival or a threat. So you never trust. It is a world that values dominance. A…
