What the ethic of man-the-breadwinner has ignored is the wisdom of relationship. That wisdom—shared by most human cultures throughout the globe—has as a central tenet that it is a source of one’s own growth to care for the context one lives within. It is essentially an ecological wisdom, teaching that we are not objective observers standing above and acting upon a passive world. We do not stand apart from a system, like God, but within it—whether the system is our body, our psyche, our marriage, our state, or our planet. Tending to the well-being of contexts we live within is an exercise of
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