Marriage and Babies at Boundless

From a recent Boundless article:
It’s only since the advent of pharmaceutical birth control that humans even had the option of choosing marriage while remaining closed to the possibility — and blessing — of children. And it’s only since people started writing their own wedding vows that we stopped including the part about promising to receive [...]

Birth Control: In Light of Demographics

Whether or not you believe that Genesis 1:28 is a cultural mandate or just was a cultural mandate, the following videos should give proponents of birth control great pause in light of the demographic trends we are seeing today. And demography aside, the idea that forced sterilization as a popular response to familial fruitfulness is [...]

The Racism of “Birth Control”

One of the most unconsidered aspects of the entire birth control debate is the history of the movement itself. Like any seismic social shift, the birth control movement in the United States had many angles, many spokesmen and women, and countless streams. It is of little historical doubt however, that every stream flowed from the same polluted [...]

The Holiness of Changing Diapers…ala Martin Luther

“Now observe that when that clever harlot, our natural reason (which the pagans followed in trying to be most clever), takes a look at married life, she turns up her nose and says, “Alas, must I rock the baby, wash its diapers, make its bed, smell its stench, stay up nights with it, take care [...]

Tasting and Seeing that the Lord is Good: Experiencing the Faithfulness of God in Kingdom Families

Here’s a great testimony about how God is truly working in the hearts of minds of men and women to bring about his plan for kingdom families. Below is an excerpt fromt the article posted on the Start Your Family blog:

“Since God softened our hearts in this area, there have been times of fear and doubting. [...]

The Straw-man of “Maximizing Children” in the Contraception Debate

“If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with life’s good things, and he also has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.” - (Ecc 6:3)

A “straw-man argument” is a logical fallacy [...]

Wartime Lifestyle

From DesiringGod.org:

The Complementarian Irony: How the Pill Burdens Women

Interestingly enough, if you marked the resurgence of the “natural family” among American Christians, I’m certain you would see it linked quite closely with a belief in complementarianism, which (as the Council for Biblical Manhood and Womenhood notes) is basically “that men and women are equal in the image of God, but maintain complementary differences [...]

Sexual Roulette: Contraception and the Nature of the Sex Act

After (ashamedly, I might add) allowing my subscription to Touchstone Magazine lapse for an issue, I received my first new issue this morning from the postman. Already it has showed itself again to be a resource well worth reading and wrestling with. Anthony Esolen, on behalf of the editorial staff at Touchstone, wrote a scathing [...]

Abraham, Personhood, and Uniqueness

Yet another reason that I recommend this book to whosoever will listen…
From Oliver O’Donovan’s Begotten or Made?:
“When Abraham entertained the three heavenly visitors by his tent at Mamre, he slaughtered a calf (Gen. 18). Has anyone ever asked which calf? Yet you could not slaughter a human being without slaughtering some particular human being, someone [...]