Motherhood is Adorned With Divine Approval
“One of the great achievements of Martin Luther and the Reformers was the elevation of family life back to its rightful place. The medieval church looked down on marriage as a necessary evil, and saw the roles of spouse and parent as ‘secular’ callings inferior to the ‘religious’ life of monastic orders. Luther was at his best when railing against Rome’s false dichotomy between the sacred and the secular, as in this characteristically blunt and earthy passage from one of…