David Brooks on "Covenant"

I know that Brooks's writing and views are not for everyone, but I still often like what he writes, and these piece ("How Covenants Make Us") struck me as particularly interesting and also as consonant with a number of the themes we've been kicking around for the last decade or so here at MOJ.  A bit:

Creating situatedness requires a different way of thinking. When we go out and do a deal, we make a contract. When we are situated within something it is because we have made a covenant. A contract protects interests, Pally notes, but a covenant protects relationships. A covenant exists between people who understand they are part of one another. It involves a vow to serve the relationship that is sealed by love: Where you go, I will go. Where you stay, I will stay. Your people shall be my people. . . .

Check it out.