Birth Control: The Marriage Killer

Christian Marriage is Dying and I Know the Killer

Jose Echenagusi, “Samson and Delilah” (1887), Oil on Canvas

Who Killed Marriage?

Whether it’s pagans first or Christians lagging behind them, we as a society don’t value marriage as highly as we used to. What is the reason for this?

The Great Sex Switch

Five Words That Change the World

It is a subtle change: Sex results in children (when I feel like it).

Conception: My Guardian Angel

At the time of writing this, I am engaged. (All going well) we will be married 1 year and 5 days after our first date. We have made the commitment not to use any form of birth control in our marriage apart from natural family planning which we have left open to use if necessary.

An Open Secret?

In every church community I’ve spent time in, very long periods of dating are the norm. Asking questions about this norm is awkward for me because at my age of 22, many of my friends are the very people who are in these prolonged dating relationships. I think it is time for pastors to start asking some tricky but valid questions. How chaste exactly is everybody being?

The Death of Marriage

My greatest fear is that people are trapped. Birth control came and turned sex from a nuclear reactor into a fun activity, the church bought the lie, people are now in long term relationships, they’ve stumbled into sin, they don’t want to bring it up out of shame, and pastors are too afraid to ask. There’s no one to help, and there’s no way out. God forbid some have stopped trying to resist.

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Christian in Brisbane Australia. I go to work during the week and go to church on Sunday.

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Jesse Walsh

Christian in Brisbane Australia. I go to work during the week and go to church on Sunday.