American Evangelicals beginning to rethink birth control, argues author of new book

American Evangelicals beginning to rethink birth control, argues author of new book | LifeSiteNews.com: A new book from one of the world’s foremost scholars in family issues examines how mid-twentieth-century evangelical leaders followed the mainstream and bought into birth control, and, briefly, abortion. Godly Seed: American Evangelicals Confront Birth Control, 1873-1973, by Dr. Allan Carlson, comes at a time when some American evangelicals are rethinking their position on birth control.

At a Christian conference last October in Chicago, Carlson about what he called a simple truth, namely that “faithful Christian communities produce an abundance of children, and in doing so, they change this world.” He also pointed out that since the inception of Christianity there has been what he called a consistent “reproductive consensus” that those of Christian belief oppose abortion, infanticide, a contraceptive mentality, and easy divorce.

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