Susanna Wesley's Kitchen Table Dynasty

Susanna Wesley never stood behind a pulpit. In early eighteenth-century Epworth, England, she stood behind an ironing board, a kitchen table, and a houseful of nineteen children — ten of whom survived infancy. Her husband Samuel was a struggling rector who landed in debtor's prison more than once. Susanna's quiet ambition was simply to raise godly children in a chaotic parsonage.…