CS Lewis in his brilliant and cutting essay, ‘On the Appeal and Challenges of Home Life’ from God in the Dock and featuring in How to be a Christian, sums up the contradiction that exists in the family home namely that, ‘Charity begins at home: so, does uncharity.’
Not for Lewis are the Cath Kidston tea towels or sepia tinted posters telling us that ‘home is where the heart is.’ Lewis doesn’t sugar coat the domestic church or dress it up in sentimental ideas – this essay really does speak to the brutal reality of even the best Christian homes; they are often places where uncharity thrives.
