This non-technical treatment of the biology of asexuality–Virgin Births Happen All the Time–can be used to introduce parthenogenesis, and it can also be used to explore themes in creation, the Deus absconditus, and the relationship of the spiritual and the material. “I don’t want to make a direct line. But might it add to our wonderment and delight that God is doing something in the birth of Christ that he doesn’t even do in other creatures who have ‘virgin births’?”
