Friday, June 19, 2009

NPR on the Quiverfull movement ...will wonders never cease?

When notoriously liberal National Public Radio does a report on the large-family trend among homeschooling Christians, you naturally expect a full-scale hatchet job, full of ridicule and inaccuracies.

But actually, this is a pretty fair and positive article .... with the exception of a snarky undertone in a paragraph or two.



In Quiverfull Movement, Birth Control Is Shunned

Among some conservative Christians, a movement is giving new meaning to the biblical mandate to "be fruitful and multiply."

The movement, called Quiverfull, is based on Psalm 127, which says, "Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are sons born in one's youth. Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them."

Those in the Quiverfull movement shun birth control, believing that God will give them the right number of children. It turns out, that's a lot of kids.

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