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 [...]

Birth Control: In Light of the “Appointed Time”

“Is anything too hard for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you, about this time next year, and Sarah shall have a son.” – Gen 18:14
Almost any time the topic of birth control comes up amongst Christian couples it is often centered around the proper timing of pregnancy. In fact, the [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

Only the Sick need a Physician: Contraception and the Purpose of Medicine

Jesus told the Pharisees in Matthew 9:12, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.” It was a stinging rebuke to the self-righteous laymen of Judaism, and a striking reminder of Christ’s purpose in coming to call, not the righteous, but sinners to repentance (v. 13). The parabolic [...]

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 [...]

Diluted Blessings: Our Deceptive Flesh and the Practice of “Family Planning”

“The blessing of the LORD makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.” – Proverbs 10:22
It does not take a fancy hermeneutic, nor a PhD in Biblical Ethics to understand this truth. Solomon teaches us in this verse that the blessings of the LORD are undiluted. What God calls a blessing is just that [...]

The Church that Was Not, and Neither Was the Preacher

One thing Nicodemus got right in John 3 was that Christ was talking about birth. The inquiring Pharisee just misunderstood which birth the Lord was talking about, or at least he acted like he misunderstood. Either way, his point is worth noting in our own contemporary context.
Christ’s response to Nicodemus’ questioning appearance in the middle [...]

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 [...]