{"id":11905,"date":"2009-03-25T16:50:27","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T16:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/npr_in_quiverfull_movement_birth_control_is_shunned\/"},"modified":"2009-03-25T16:50:27","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T16:50:27","slug":"npr_in_quiverfull_movement_birth_control_is_shunned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11905","title":{"rendered":"NPR: In Quiverfull Movement, Birth Control Is Shunned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among some conservative Christians, a movement is giving new meaning to the biblical mandate to &#8220;be fruitful and multiply.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The movement, called Quiverfull, is based on Psalm 127, which says, &#8220;Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are sons born in one&#8217;s youth. Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Those in the Quiverfull movement shun birth control, believing that God will give them the right number of children. It turns out, that&#8217;s a lot of kids.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=102005062\">Read or listen to it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among some conservative Christians, a movement is giving new meaning to the biblical mandate to &#8220;be fruitful and multiply.&#8221; The movement, called Quiverfull, is based on Psalm 127, which says, &#8220;Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are sons<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11905\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,42,101,419,98,154,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-children","category-evangelicals","category-marriage-family","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}