Mommy, am I going to go to Hell because I didn’t take my nap? –Ellie, age 4 I posted this little quote on Facebook yesterday and it gathered no comments or likes, and I deleted it again after realizing that it probably sounded really stark and silly at a single glance. What bizarre theology am I teaching her that…
Year: 2012
Duty of Parents to Children
Part Two of Julie attempting to make the Puritans more accessible to other sleepy mommies. (See Duty to Wives for a much wordier prelude.) This is another piece from John Bunyan’s Christian Behavior. If you are a parent—a father, or a mother—then you must consider your calling as a believer in light of that fact. Your children have souls, and…
The Duty of Wives
John Bunyan’s Christian Behavior is a marvelously useful little work. Unfortunately, it is also hundreds of years old and difficult to read. Here I attempt to modernize the most immediately relevant part, and I hope to continue and add on some of the other parts. I have had to add phrases here and there and try to simplify some things,…