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…
Category: Wifehood
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,…
This is my job. And it’s a job.
Seth is a little quicker than I am to jump in and proclaim that I do work a “full-time job,” which I appreciate, even as I feel a little sheepish about it myself. Although if I was doing all the cleaning and housework and 24-hour-a-day nannying for any other family but my own, I’d definitely think it was a job!…