Natural Family Planning

This just in…
The Archdiocese of San Antonio is looking for an Associate Director/ NFP Coordinator. Pass this around to your NFP friends. The position is open until filled.
 

A friend sent me the link to this up-and-coming documentary. I’ve not seen it yet, so I can’t give a commentary or full analysis, but I support natural childbirth. I *think* I understand where they’re going with the “orgasmic” parlance, but I’d like to see it before I make a judgement. The friend who sent [...]

I’m grateful for drugs. I really am. I take them, some as prescription and some over the counter. They’re not my friends, per se, but in a fallen world we sometimes–oftentimes–need them. But guess what? For every action there’s a reaction, for every cause an effect, and it’s not news to us that drugs–pharmaceuticals, prescriptions, [...]

This just in…
The Institute of Natural Family Planning, College of Nursing, Marquette University, is launching an NFP study.  This e-mail is to provide you with the information about recruiting volunteers for the study (see below).
The study is a randomized comparison of two Internet supported methods of NFP.  This is the first randomized comparison study of [...]

I nixed the Teens and Birth Control show on the FertilityCare iPod queue because it was more moral and cultural commentary than about diagnosing young women’s menstrual issues. It was a good show, and a little insightful into the average teen-and-mother/ doctor experience; i.e., what the doctor says when prescribing versus what he really things, [...]

This is a surprisingly quasi-balanced article from the New York Times on larger families and the struggles of prejudice they face. The author, Kate Zernike, like any good writer, hits pros and cons, works in the controversial buzz stories, like unwed and unemployed Nadya Suleman, the new octuplet mother (I’m not even going to begin my [...]

Have you listened to the previous podcasts with Dr. Thomas Hilgers? Your FertilityCare Consultant extraordinaire is back in show nine of sixteen, and the third on contraception.
In this show, host Chris McGregor continues her discussion with Hilgers on the dangers and ills of contraception, and will focus this time on barrier methods, which an additional overview [...]

So I hope that if I publicize this talk by Christopher West in another city, people will still go to the Biochemistry of Sex talk the following week in Madison…
Wide in its scope, at once both modern and ancient, the Theology of the Body addresses the deepest questions of life. It proposes a vision of love [...]