Mama’s Choice – Part 3: Ultimatum

It's a child not a choice

by Vyckie Garrison While we’re on the topic of Choice – although I’ve written about this before, I must say it again: what choices do devoted Christian women really have? “If He is not Lord of all, He is not Lord at all.” “What is most important?” Nancy Campbell asks Christian women.  ”When we refuse [...]

Mama’s Choice – Part 2: Spirit Led, or Alien Impregnation?

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by Vyckie Garrison When Michelle Duggar got pregnant despite being on birth control, and subsequently lost the baby, the belief that – by using hormonal birth control – she had destroyed the precious life of their unborn child led Michelle and her husband, Jim Bob, to search the scriptures and pray. The result was a [...]

Mama’s Choice – Part 1: For the Bible Tells Me So

What does the bible say about birth contol?

by Vyckie Garrison  Get out a concordance (or search online) and look up the words “contraception,” “birth control,” “condoms,” “the pill,” “natural family planning,” “sterilization,” … no results? That’s because the bible does not directly address the topic of birth control. Do a Google search for “the bible and birth control,” and you might be [...]

Biology 101 Anyone?

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by Calulu When I first read the headline this weekend I was incredulous. I sat there dumb founded just staring at the screen, not believing what I was reading, this newest cannon volley that is the  war on women and women’s reproductive rights. Sadly it wasn’t a joke. This is what I saw – Republican [...]

Updated FAQ: The Bible & Birth Control

Note:  Before reading this, please read the “Quiverfull and the Bible” FAQ.  Like the “nobleminded Bereans” (Acts 17:11), we are entitled to study for ourselves, so that we may read the Biblical text in an informed manner.  That FAQ provides the background for the method of informed Bible reading used here. by Kristen Rosser aka [...]