Gift-giving cultures

Take Only What You Need and Give Away: Fundamental Principles of Sustainability Ethics

By Carol P. Christ on May 4, 2015 • ( 12 )

Why is it so important to take only what we really need? Because everything we take harms another life. I included this Native American teaching as one of the Nine Touchstones I offered as a counterpoint to the Ten Commandments… Read More ›

MATRIARCHY: DARING TO USE THE “M” WORD by Carol P. Christ

By Carol P. Christ on February 17, 2014 • ( 45 )

For me the word “matriarchy” expresses the certainty that “another world” can exist—a world not based in domination and hierarchy or violence and war. The word “matriarchy” makes people’s hair stand on end as they imagine the mirror-image of patriarchy:… Read More ›