While Christians take a variety of stances on contraception today, this diversity of opinion and practice is a relatively recent historical development. The majority report in Christian history has been overwhelmingly vocal in its opposition to birth control. The Early Church fathers condemned the use of contraception, leaning heavily on the negative example of Onan in Genesis 38 as evidence for their position and arguing that procreation was the primary purpose of sexual intimacy. This same basic stance was reiterated and reinforced by the Medieval monks and theologians. Even with the sweeping changes which the Reformation brought to Christians’ views of marriage and family, leading Reformers (such as Luther and Calvin) maintained the church’s historic opposition to contraception. Up through the 19th century, both Protestant denominations and the Roman Catholic church stood united in their condemnation of contraception. The first official break with this view came with the 1930 Lambeth Conference, in which the Anglican Communion cautiously opened the door for Christian use of contraception. Within a few decades, the Christian consensus on contraception had collapsed and a range of attitudes and approaches towards contraception began to develop (Ben Franks).

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CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy		Home cookin	18	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2	c	Flour
3	ts	Baking powder
1/3	c	Oil
1/4	ts	Salt
2/3	c	Nonfat milk
		Serves 18
		Per serving: 89 calories 42%
		Calories from fat

INSTRUCTIONS

A light fluffy biscuit without the saturated fat.
Preheat oven to 475 degrees F. Sift flour, baking powder and salt. Measure
oil and milk into cup but don't stir. Add all at once to flour mixture.
Stir with fork until mixture leaves side of bowl and forms ball. Knead 10
times. Roll out (1/4" thick) and cut with floured glass or biscuit cutter.
Bake 10-12 minutes.
Posted to MM-Recipes Digest  by "Beth Ide" <rev_ide@email.msn.com> on Aug
17, 1998

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