Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition

When we must pay the true price for the depletion of nature’s gifts, materials will become more precious to us, and economic logic will reinforce, and not contradict, our heart’s desire to treat the world with reverence and, when we receive nature’s gifts, to use them well.

When everything is subject to money, then the scarcity of money makes everything scarce, including the basis of human life and happiness. Such is the life of the slave—one whose actions are compelled by threat to survival. Perhaps the deepest indication of our slavery is the monetization of time.

What follows are ways to redream and re-create the world, using money as the currency of love and conduit of commitment. What follows are distinctions of living life from sufficiency.