Keeping House: The Litany of Everyday Life

That's the title of Margaret Kim Peterson's interesting little book on home-making and house-keeping-- food, clothing, shelter, and putting it altogether within a Christian worldview.

The book has eight, easy-to-read chapters-- and would be a fine medium for a small group discussion or one lesson (or even a series) in a Sunday School class. Throughout, she surveys the Biblical literature on food, clothing, shelter, home-making, and hospitality-- both, how God does these for us and calls us to do them for others (from family to friends to strangers). At times, she goes back into history to explain "how we got here".

The book is partly a "how to" manual-- things to consider doing within home-making and house-keeping, and more importantly, ways to think about them. On the former, she has a number of interesting suggestions. On the latter, it reduces to thinking about house-work's parallels to a religious litany and the practice of spiritual disciplines.


For Lauren Winner's review in Books & Culture, click here.

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