Flushing the Pill: The Dangers and the Decision to Refuse Them

I providentially came across this brother’s blog (a fellow Southern Seminarian) tonight and was very encouraged by what I read. Indeed, the Lord is changing hearts…
“One of the most dramatic flip-flops of the past year has been my view on birth control pills. Previously, I had no problem with such a friendly form of contraception. [...]

The Value of Children and the Global Fame of Jesus Christ

I had the awesome opportunity to run into Mr. Brent Nelson from the Council for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood last week as I stopped by their office in Louisville, KY. I had no appointment, and really had little more than a half-brain-stormed idea that I brought with me to discuss, but Mr. Nelson was extremely [...]

Ignoring the Obvious in the Great Commission: Who’s going, and who are they going to?

“And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And [...]

Contracepting Koalas?

This video reminds me of this post from a few months ago: From Beast to Men: Distorted Dignity, if any at all…

One Thing Abortion Advocates Have Right

“It’s difficult to imagine abortions ever becoming rare, especially in the absence of comprehensive sex education and widely accessible contraception, but we should perhaps expect abortions to become unsafe and illegal, while still common.” - Wendy Kaminer, abortion advocate, Op-Ed, June/July 2006 Free Inquiry magazine
One thing nearly all abortion advocates have right is the link [...]

The Lie in the Abortion Numbers

“THURSDAY, Jan. 17 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. abortion rate has reached its lowest level in three decades, according to a new report released Thursday.
“We don’t know why,” said study author Rachel Jones, senior research associate at the Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit group that focuses on reproductive issues.”
(HT: Between Two Worlds)
Apart from my own research [...]

Birth Control in light of Redemptive Theology

Where so many Protestants go wrong in deliberating the morality of contraception is their failure to distinguish between creation and nature. As Brent Waters comments in his work, Reproductive Technology:Towards a Theology of Procreative Stewardship, “Although creation is good because of the imprint it bears of its creator, and its created order has been vindicated [...]

Bush Administration on Birth Control as Abortion

Thanks to the Thirsty Theologian for giving me the heads up on this recent, and surprisingly pertinent, Wall Street Journal article…
Hmmmm, do I hear an echo in here?
‘BH

The Democracy of the Dead: In Response to the Arrogant Oligarchy of the Living

What do they know? Calvin, Luther, Wesley, and centuries of other great theologians of the Church — they never had access to RU486 (the abortion pill), so how could they really be against abortion? They never had the birth-control pill, so whatever birth-control they preached against was short-sighted, and out of touch with modernity, right? [...]

Freedom and Stewardship

I finished J. Daryl Charles’ Retrieving the Natural Law: A Return to Moral First Things tonight, and it did not disappoint. There is plenty to digest in the coming days, but I’ll be doing so while jumping into Brent Waters’ Reproductive Technology:Towards a Theology of Procreative Stewardship as well. These next two weeks are going [...]