Barrenness Binds Us Together

Barren is a terrible word that scripture often uses to describe women who can’t have children. Images of a desert wasteland emerge. I wonder if Hannah, Rachel, Sarah and the other barren women of scripture found it as offensive as I do. My husband...

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