Editorial adviser Jeff Sharlet sends the following email:

My friend and colleague Kathryn Joyce has just published her first
major magazine article in The Nation, a portrait of a new Christian
fundamentalist "avant-garde" of women who wage "spiritual war" by
birthing as many soldiers for God as they can.

They call their babies arrows, and their movement "Quiverfull," and
they're thinking long term: "if just 8 million American Christian
couples began supplying more "arrows for the war" by having six
children or more, they propose," writes Kathryn, "the Christian-right
ranks could rise to 550 million within a century."

Men are in on it, of course: Kathryn writes of one husband who
abandoned plans for a vasectomy urged even by his pastor when he "saw
a warrior angel in his dream. A "large, worrying warrior angel" with a
flaming sword that he pointed at Christopher's genitals, telling him,
"Do not change God's plan.""

Scariest of all, conservative Democrats are in on it too -- the latter
part of the article reports on a Democratic Leadership Council study
of the "return to patriarchy" to figure out how Democrats can do just
that as a path to victory.