A Christian Newswire story about Concerned Women for America’s criticism of federal reporting on the new birth rate data.

A Washington Post story about a congressional report that found inaccuracies in some government-funded sex education programs that teach abstinence only.

Watch a documentary about 15-year-old, Southern Baptist Shelby Knox; who becomes an unlikely proponent of comprehensive sex education from Lubbock, Texas.

A National Public Radio report about results from the first major national study of abstinence-only education.

Read an Associated Press story, “Doctors denounce abstinence-only education.” It’s posted by MSNBC.

Read a U.S. News and World Report article that asks whether schools are giving students too much – or too little – information about sexual matters. The magazine says California, Pennsylvania and, most recently, Maine have turned down federal money for abstinence-only curricula so they can teach what they believe is best.

Written by John Danforth (Viking Adult, 2006). Danforth, a former Republican senator from Missouri and an ordained Episcopalian minister, speaks out against the conflation of political agendas with religious views and the religious right’s focus on wedge issues.

The National Center for Health Statistics posts statistics about teen births.

Written by Gregory A. Boyd (Zondervan, 2006). Boyd, a theologian and pastor of Woodland Hills Church in St. Paul, Minn., discusses his worry over the growing alignment of Christianity and the right-wing ideology of the Republican Party.