David Schlafer

Unexpected Abundance

Women

“Can ‘barren’ women—those not bearing children—be well described as ‘fruitful’? The author’s spirited response is: ‘Let me count the ways!’ Elizabeth Felicetti takes readers on a vivid tour, alternating between her own experience and accounts of women with different vocational visions from many times and places. Not only can women be fruitful though childless; they can be as fruitful as they are just because they are childless. This energetic interplay of candid memoir, targeted history, biblical analysis, and theological imagination is a celebration of the deep truth that meaningful womanhood cannot be restricted to biological motherhood.”