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...
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
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 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...
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Smith’s claims are sobering, but they do raise important questions related to how to be religious and pass on the Christian faith in the modern age. - @PhilDavignon