Over the past three, fruit-filled months of discussion, I have found no small bucketful of gems in Lewis Hyde’s book, The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World. It seems that many...

Usury "appears when spiritual, moral, and economic life begin to be separated from one another....

Nobody told them to give away their money. What belonged to them belonged to the community.

“[A] transformative gift cannot be fully received when it is first offered because the person does not yet have the power either to accept the gift or to pass it along.”