{"id":4566,"date":"2006-11-16T09:16:16","date_gmt":"2006-11-16T09:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/11\/quiverfull.html"},"modified":"2006-11-16T09:16:16","modified_gmt":"2006-11-16T09:16:16","slug":"quiverfull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/11\/quiverfull.html","title":{"rendered":"Quiverfull"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s an article in a recent issue of Newsweek<\/em> about a small movement among some Protestants that is totally, absolutely against any kind of contraception or even fertility awareness and conscious birth spacing. <\/p>\n

Mollie at Get Religion blogs on the piece and on another on the same subject in the Nation<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

From the Newsweek article:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Back in 1995, when the quiverfull.com Web site was founded, it had only 12 subscribers; today, the site, which is administered by the Bortels, has more than 2,600. Many followers have abandoned mainstream churches in favor of smaller nondenominational congregations of like-minded families. A cottage industry has sprung up in support of them. There are books like \u201cA Full Quiver,\u201d by Rick and Jan Hess; Web sites like blessedarrows.com, which raises funds for couples to have reverse vasectomies or reverse tubal ligations; and scholarly treatises like \u201cThe Natural Family: A Manifesto,\u201d put out  by the Rockford, Ill.,-based Howard Center for Family, Religion & Society and the Sutherland Institute, a conservative think tank in Utah.  \u201cWe\u2019re still on the fringes,\u201d says Jan Hess. \u201cBut it is much more embraced than it was before.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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