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 [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Religion’
November 1, 2009
Marriage and Babies at Boundless
September 23, 2009
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 [...]
September 11, 2009
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 [...]
August 7, 2009
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 [...]
July 31, 2009
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 [...]
July 28, 2009
God’s Reign in Our Families: Does Family Planning Have a Place in the Kingdom of God?
In his work entitled, The Gospel of the Kingdom, George Eldon Ladd wrote, “..the righteousness which God demands of us, He must give to us, or we are lost. The only life which can be made pure is the life which knows the power of God’s Kingdom, His rule.” It is no secret in Scripture [...]
July 24, 2009
Birth Control In Light of the Cross: A Christian Reference in Considering Contraception
That Jesus Christ was crucified and rose from the dead to seek and save those that were lost are two truths that should shake the very foundations of Christian living, and dying. That the Son of God was made to be sin for “our sake”, as 2 Corinthians 5:21 notes, lays upon us a very [...]
July 23, 2009
Tattooed with the Masses, and Pierced with the Classes: Addressing (Contemporary) Cultural Clichés
Go to a college campus today (it can be secular or religious, it makes no difference at this juncture) and find the nearest Christian. Chances are very likely (though I do not wager a percentage here) that they’re gonna have some kind of religious tattoo. Cross on an ankle, fish on the wrist, or Bible [...]
July 21, 2009
“The Kingdom of God is hostile to nothing but sin alone…”
Combating the ideal that “the gospel is hostile to culture” and in a deeper sense, hostile to the created purposes of Creation, Herman Bavinck writes, “The Christian is the true man, on every front and in every domain. Christianity is not opposed to nature, but to sin. Christ came, not to destroy the works of [...]
