The Mother Who Built a Dynasty of Faith
In 1689, nineteen-year-old Susanna Annesley made a decision that stunned her family. The daughter of one of London's most prominent Dissenting ministers, she left her...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 45:10-12, 16.
In 1689, nineteen-year-old Susanna Annesley made a decision that stunned her family. The daughter of one of London's most prominent Dissenting ministers, she left her father's theological household to join the Church of England and marry Samuel Wesley, an impoverished Anglican clergyman. Her father, Dr. Samuel Annesley, had raised her among Puritan royalty. She walked away from that identity, that name, that world — and into a drafty rectory in the rural village of Epworth.…
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