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 [...]

The World Awoke Today and Groaned: A Poem

“The world awoke today and groaned,
In pain because of unbelief,
It shuddered as the stain of sin,
Left pools of blood at Jesus’ feet.

This blood, not His, cried out below,
Righteous judgment it did seek,
Unjustly shed by wicked men,
Who killed the orphan, and the weak.

The world awoke today and groaned,
To find few witnesses of grace,
Just lonely sidewalks filled [...]

The Children

A poem by John Piper:

The Children
Do you hear the children crying?
I can hear them every day,
Crying, sighing, dying, flying
Somewhere safe where they can play.
Somewhere safe from all the dangers,
Somewhere safe from crack and AIDS,
Safe from lust and lurking strangers,
Safe from war and bombing raids.
Somewhere safe from malnutrition,
Safe from daddy’s damning voice,
Safe from mommy’s cool ambition,
Safe [...]

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 [...]

Are You Living as if Children are Blessings or Curses?

A powerful excerpt from what may become my default wedding gift for my friends and family getting married, Steve and Candice Watter’s, “Start Your Family: Inspiration for Having Babies“:
“‘Choose life” – it’s the pro-life movement’s rallying cry adopted from Deuteronomy 30:19. But that Scripture isn’t just for those in a crisis pregnancy. We also see [...]

Evangelicalism’s (Self-)Terminal Generation: Preaching to Those Who First Spring From the Womb

“Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon: Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat their produce. Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that [...]

“By the Babe Unborn”: Poem by G.K. Chesterton

by G.K. Chesterton

If trees were tall and grasses short,
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