That Jane Austen was a sincere and practicing Christian is certainly no myth. Her father was a priest in the Church of England, as were her brothers James and Henry. Regular church attendance and daily prayer were part of her life. Austen is both unobtrusive and undefensive in her representations of and allusions to the Christian religion, but after her death her family felt the need to underscore Austen's piety over and above her genius. Some readers find Austen's “evident” groundedness in Anglicanism the very bedrock of her practice as a novelist. The vexing element in this myth is not the “evident” normativeness of Christian mores for Austen, but rather her classification as a “moralist” and with that the character of her writing. Austen's disinterest in pronouncing moral judgments is even more evident in Mansfield Park, sometimes considered her most moralizing novel.