Christiana’s journey: A family of pilgrims
Nicola Grove reflects on John Bunyan, pilgrimage and refugees
A husband leaves his family for a distant land in search of what he sees as salvation. Some time later, his wife receives an invitation to join him, and she decides to go, taking her four children and a young woman friend with her, despite all the entreaties of her neighbours and warnings of the perils of the journey. She abandons everything she knows out of a religious conviction that her soul is in peril, taking a new name for a new life. Sound familiar? The woman is Christiana, wife of the most famous pilgrim in English religious tradition – Christian from John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress (1678).
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