The Contraception Guidebook or Seeds of Light

The Contraception Guidebook: Options, Risks, and Answers for Christian Couples

Author: William R Cutrer

A Comprehensive Christian Guide to Contraception

The Contraception Guidebook equips you to make fully informed decisions about the complex and deeply personal issue of contraception. Written in a personal, engaging style by a male obstetrician/gynecologist and a female educator and journalist, both theologians, this easy-to-read book is packed with the most current medical information on every option, old and new. Youll also learn the success rates, ethical considerations, and risk factors involved, gain insights from real-life couples facing different concerns, and obtain medically reliable and biblically sound wisdom for your questions. Each chapter ends with questions to help you and your mate communicate on key issues.

Table of Contents:

CONTENTS
Foreword 9
Preface 13
Acknowledgments 17
Part 1: Myths and Facts
1. How Many Children Do You Want? 21
2. You Wont Get Pregnant If25
3. The Why of Sex 33
4. How Our Bodies Work 43
Part 2: Contraception: Options, Risks, and Choices
5. Planned Periodic Abstinence 53
6. A Trip to the Pharmacy: Chemicals and Barriers 71
7. What about the Pill? 85
8. Do Birth Control Pills Cause Abortion? 101
9. Other Hormone Therapy Options 113
10. Under the Knife: Procedures for Her 129
11. His Turn: Vasectomy 143
12. The Future of Contraception 153
Part 3: We Are Family
13. Unless the Lord Builds the House . . . 165
14. When Youre Ready to Add to Your Family 179
Appendix 1: Communication: For Couples 189
Considering Conception
Appendix 2: Christian Medical and Dental Associations 193
Position Statements
1. Possible Postfertilization Effects of Hormonal 193
Birth Control
2. Human Sexuality 194
3. Abortion 196
4. Reproductive Technology 196
Notes 201
Glossary 211
Resources 225
Index 229

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Seeds of Light: Healing Meditations for Body and Soul

Author: Elizabeth K Stratton

In this luminous book, renowned spiritual healer Elizabeth K. Stratton has designed a program of meditations that will help you to heal your body, heart, and soul, as well as to stimulate healing energy in others. Whether you carefully follow her program or concentrate on particular areas of interest, you will learn valuable ways to awaken the healer within - to nurture the seeds of light you carry so that they will grow and flourish. Seeds of Light follows the same five-part healing path that Elizabeth Stratton lays out in the workshops she leads nationwide and in her Touching Spirit Training Program. Beautiful, simple, and often prayerlike, these meditations touch the divine within each of us. Whether you read them for yourself or aloud to a friend, they will inspire you to plant your own seeds of light.