R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, is considered one of the leading intellectual figures of evangelical Christianity in the U.S. In a December 2005 column in The Christian Post titled "Can Christians Use Birth Control?" he wrote: "The effective separation of sex from procreation may be one of the most important defining marks of our age — and one of the most ominous. This awareness is spreading among American evangelicals, and it threatens to set loose a firestorm.. . .A growing number of evangelicals are rethinking the issue of birth control — and facing the hard questions posed by reproductive technologies."
and how John Paul the Great's Theology of The Body is contributing to a great re-thinking of the question. Apart from the predictable equation of NFP with the rhythm method (aargh!), an excellent and hopeful article. It's only Monday, and I predict this is the must-read of the week.
