The Reformation transformed not only the church and the state, but also the family. If the Reformation was going to continue, every home had to be holy.
by Brian Hanson | In Thomas Becon’s popular bestseller The sycke mans salve, published in 1560, the godly yet fictitious Epaphroditus lies on his deathbed, his wife and three children surrounding him to receive his final exhortations regarding his posterity. He first charges his wife to...










