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Write anything podcast. Well, hello and welcome to the Ask NT Write Anything podcast. I'm the co-host,

Mike Bird from Ridley College in Melbourne, Australia. And I'm joined, as always, by

Tom Wright from Oxford in England. And we're here to answer your questions, which you've sent us.

And Tom, people keep sending us such great questions. I'm really enjoying this. Some of them

make me think. Some of them are ones I know I've definitely heard before,

but every now and again, we get a pretty juicy one. And we've got a juicy one first up.

First on, we have a listener from Abadour who asks about contraception. He says, I never thought

about contraception with a theological view until my brother,

who was a Catholic, challenged me on the topic. Having looked deep into this, I find the view that

using contraception is a sin more compelling. Despite searching, I have not been able to find much out there that is pro-controception.

I am wondering what are your views. And he lists some of the points against contraception.

He says, my understanding is that until about 100 years ago, all Christians saw using contraception as wrong.

It is purposely disabling an aspect of your

body's design. In using contraception, it is like saying God did a poor job in making humans. Tom,

is this a question that you've got any thoughts about? I mean, I know this was a big issue, I think,

in the 1920s, maybe in the Church of England, where mean, I know this was a big issue, I think, in the 1920s, maybe,

in the Church of England, where they, I think they finally did sort of endorse contraception,

which kind of meant a break from the Catholic or the Anglo-Catholic tradition. But Tom,

have you thought this one through?

Basically, it's not something that I've had to think too much about because my church,

ever since I, long before I was born, had made a clear decision and there was no question

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