Unexpected Abundance: The Fruitful Lives of Women Without Children Felicetti Elizabeth
Unexpected Abundance: The Fruitful Lives of Women Without Children Felicetti Elizabeth Meet 25 women who generated life without giving birth.In many Christian communities today, women are expected to…
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Unexpected Abundance: The Fruitful Lives of Women Without Children Felicetti Elizabeth
Meet 25 women who generated life without giving birth.In many Christian communities today, women are expected to have children--to "be fruitful and multiply." To be childless is to be less of a woman, less of a Christian, or so it can feel. But in the landscape of her childhood in Arizona Felicetti found fresh eyes. Elizabeth Felicetti is deeply familiar with this pressure as an Episcopal priest who never had the children she imagined would be part of her life.
This is also true of women throughout history. If she's "barren," so is the desert--and if you look closely, the desert teems with unexpected life. Biblical women like Mary Magdalene, medieval mystics like Julian of Norwich, and modern activists like Rosa Parks did not have children, yet their lives bore fruit in their communities and in the church at large.In reflecting on her own experience alongside
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