Later in the eighteenth century, Robert Raikes taught and evangelized clusters of street children in early Sunday schools.19 The failure of some Christian parents to disciple their children is also not new. In one popular Christian writing from the mid-second-century AD, a divine messenger tells the protagonist that “the Lord is angry” with him because he’s fallen short in the spiritual formation of his children.20 In the eighteenth century, Jonathan Edwards found it necessary to admonish his congregation