We Can Build Things
Today, many women have been raised more like I was than like my adult daughters were. Even those whose parents married or remained married have relatively little access, in our broader cultural environs, to the rich guidance for living that I found, or better, that found me, through my own profound suffering. It is this distillation of decades, or rather centuries, of lived experience that inspired our declaration. By looking backward, we move forward with a new purpose, informed by the reality of interdependence among men, women, and children and the embodied and transcendent nature of each and every human being. In a culture where exemplars of charity animated by religious faith are rarely visible in public life, where robust communities knit together by thriving families are harder to come by, and where great books that might illuminate sacred paths go unread, of course women will be…
