Challenging the Contraceptive Mind

Challenging the Contraceptive Mind

Hannah’s Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth By Catherine Ruth Pakaluk. Regnery Gateway, 2024.  Hardcover, 400 pages, $29.99.  Reviewed by Sarah Reardon. “We all come from divorce,” Wendell Berry once said, in an interview in Laura Dunn’s film The...
Challenging the Contraceptive Mind

Motherhood in an Age of Childlessness

Hannah’s Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth By Catherine Ruth Pakaluk. Regnery Gateway, 2024. Hardcover, 400 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by Nicholas R. Swanson. In January 2022, Pope Francis struck a nerve during his Wednesday public audience. Noting...
Halting the Assembly Line Life

Halting the Assembly Line Life

Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic: Ancient Christianity and the Recovery of Human Dignity By Nadya Williams. IVP Academic, 2024. Paperback, 240 pages, $26. Reviewed by Sarah Reardon. On the walls of the birth center sit posters about birth control. In the office...
The Sacredness of Life: An Unbought Grace

The Sacredness of Life: An Unbought Grace

The Scalpel and the Soul: Our Radical Transformation as Husband and Wife Abortion Doctors  By Noreen Johnson, M.D., and Haywood Robinson, M.D. Kolbe & Anthony, 2023. Hardcover, 216 pages, $24.95. Two Patients: My Conversion from Abortion to Life-Affirming Medicine...
Hope—Is It Warranted at This Point?

Hope—Is It Warranted at This Point?

Democracy and Solidarity: On the Cultural Roots of America’s Political Crisis  By James Davison Hunter. Yale, 2024. Hardcover, 504 pages, $40. Reviewed by Brad Littlejohn. Being of a chronically pessimistic disposition, I used to enjoy picking out Despair.com posters...