Is Contraception Christian?

There’s no doubt that birth control is being discussed more now than since the Pill was released in the 60s. However, in Christian circles the question of contraception has tended to center around the ends of family planning: is it permissible for Christians to plan how many children to have, or should we simply let […]

Social Engineering, Mobile Lovers, and Technologizing the Fertility Awareness Method

Happy Easter! Here’s a list of some of what we found interesting this week. If you missed it last week, check out the final entry in our Lenten blog series on technology and spirituality: Trappists, Technology, and the Dictatorship of Relativism. Banksy’s latest confirmed painting skewers modern cellphone addiction – Washington Post “Banksy’s latest confirmed […]

How the West really lost God? By mediating sex, argues new book

Secularization wasn’t the inevitable result of the Enlightenment, it was the result of the widespread acceptance of a new media. More specifically, the mediating of the one flesh union with the technology of contraception. Or so argues Mary Eberstadt in her provocative new book that is sure to spark great debate, How the West Really Lost […]

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