Jürgen von Hagen joins Tim Bayly to discuss fruitfulness, natalism, and fertility demographics. From Malthus to Erlich to many contemporaries—for over two centuries—the prophets of doom have pleaded with mankind to abandon fruitfulness to survive. Modern man—and the Christian church—has only been too willing to obey those false prophets in direct contradiction to God's commands in the creation mandates. Jürgen and Tim discuss the conscious choice Christians should make to be counter-cultural or, in other words, obedient to God regarding fruitfulness.

Are we willing to submit the fruitfulness of our marriage beds to God as an act of holiness?

"God blessed them; and God said to them, 'Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth'" (Gen. 1:28 ).

Some resources mentioned in the podcast:

Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population

Erlich, The Population Bomb

Bricker & Ibbitson, Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline

Ismail, The Age of Decay: How Aging and Shrinking Populations Could Usher in the Decline of Civilization

Murray, Principles of Conduct

Pakaluk, Hannah's Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth