Comments on: Needed: More Babies for Baptists http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2009/06/12/needed-more-babies-for-baptists/ A First Things Blog Fri, 24 May 2013 19:30:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: First Thoughts — A First Things Blog http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2009/06/12/needed-more-babies-for-baptists/comment-page-1/#comment-352 First Thoughts — A First Things Blog Sun, 14 Jun 2009 03:39:03 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/?p=4004#comment-352 [...] up on my post about Baptists leaders calling for church-goers to have more children, Craig Carter provides a list [...]

]]> By: In Light of the Gospel » Blog Archive » Should Christians Have Large Families http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2009/06/12/needed-more-babies-for-baptists/comment-page-1/#comment-348 In Light of the Gospel » Blog Archive » Should Christians Have Large Families Sun, 14 Jun 2009 02:54:41 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/?p=4004#comment-348 [...] Carter thinks we should. He found Akin’s comments from Joe Carter’s post, and provided these six reasons for large [...]

]]> By: Peter Johnson http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2009/06/12/needed-more-babies-for-baptists/comment-page-1/#comment-344 Peter Johnson Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:31:18 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/?p=4004#comment-344 I’m not a Baptist or a Catholic or a part of the quiverfull movement. We are planning on homeschooling. Our main attitude is that we’ll have as many or as few children as God chooses to give us. We have been amazed at how rare that attitude is.

There is also a great Chesterton essay “Babies and Distributism” that has really made a difference to us.

]]> By: First Thoughts — A First Things Blog http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2009/06/12/needed-more-babies-for-baptists/comment-page-1/#comment-323 First Thoughts — A First Things Blog Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:49:35 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/?p=4004#comment-323 [...] Joe, but wouldn’t it increase baptism totals even more if Baptists baptized those babies? Just a [...]

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