Welcome to the Breakpoint podcast and our Q&A segment, Ask the Colson Center. I'm Shane Morris, here with John Stone Street answering your questions. They're based on breakpoint commentaries and podcast we've aired and short courses and articles on our website. If you want to submit a question yourself, you can email us at Ask the Colson Center at colsoncenter.org. We'd love to hear from you.

John, the first two questions I want to deal with today have to do with contraception. The first I'll go

What could go wrong? Two dudes. Let's talk about this. Yeah, let's jump right in. Yeah, we'll talk about

contraception. Yeah, we'll talk about that and we won't hit any trip wires or fall into any pits here. So yeah, the first is actually kind of a call for resources.

And so we'll answer that in a second.

But I want to actually read the second one because it's a very compelling question.

This listener says, John, love your work.

A question.

Hey, wait, wait, read that part, read that first part again just because we're about to jump

into contraception.

Right. part again, just because we're about to jump into contraception. People might not need to hear this like two or three times.

John love your work.

Let's say that again.

John love your work.

Okay, please carry on.

Now that John is thoroughly validated and feeling good about himself, we can go.

As we go, we're angels fear to tread.

Yeah, right, exactly.

Well, this listener says a question with a gentle critique. You say,

the stage that we now enter after separating sex from marriage, a marriage from children,

is separating childbearing from sex. I think this was a commentary we did about platonic co-parenting.

Doesn't contraception also intentionally separate childbearing from the sexual act

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