Habits for a Sacred Home
9 Practices from History to Anchor and Restore Modern Families

In this book, Jennifer Pepito highlights 9 intentional practices (or habits) intended to anchor mothers. These habits are: work, stewardship, prayer, order, simplicity, stability, hospitality, community and balance. Pepito highlights each of these practices through women in history. I found this to......more

There was nothing wrong with this actual message of the book, but the underlying tone and voice of the message just wasn’t for me. There seemed to be a lot of fear running under the surface — fear of culture creeping in to our homes and churches, fear of crime, fear of political outcomes, fear of wa......more

There were a few times she mentioned being fearful about the state of the world where I thought we were going to disappear down a different path and braced for impact, but she always came back to creating order and habits that cultivate faith and change society from within our families—including a c......more

Exceedingly encouraging.......more

This book seems to have a bunch of different ideas that don't totally coalesce. On the one hand, she is referencing the Rule of Benedict and trying to apply it to a Christian homeschool home life. On another hand, she is pulling exemplary women from the past as exemplars of these habits. She's also......more