This harvest of articles drawn from William Johnson Everett's career of teaching and research on four continents and in a variety of institutions shows the breadth, depth, and diversity of his interests. Like spotlights in the wider field of Christian social ethics, they illuminate the key threads that have held together an emerging tapestry of thought woven around the powerful concept of covenant. Whether lifting up concepts of covenant, federalism, and corporation, the "oikos" of work, family, and faith, the public nature and mission of the church, or the ethical meaning of journey metaphors, his rich and artful style leads us into thinking more deeply about the way our lives are joined in a "covenantal imagination" about a more just and sustainable world.

William Johnson Everett is Professor Emeritus of Christian Social Ethics at Andover Newton Seminary at Yale Divinity School. He holds degrees from Wesleyan University, Yale Divinity School, and Harvard University. He has taught at St. Francis Seminary (Milwaukee), Candler School of Theology, Emory University, and Berea College, as well as in Heidelberg, Bangalore, and Cape Town. His writing encompasses many areas of ethics as well as fiction, poetry, and memoir. He blogs atwww.WilliamEverett.com.