What Fertility Really Means, by Francis X. Maier

I’ll get right to the point.  Leigh Snead’s new book Infertile but Fruitful is one of the finest personal testimonies I’ve read in the past decade.  It’s a “simple” story in the best sense: concise, intimate, utterly frank, and memorable.  It spoke, directly and beautifully, to my own family, as it will to many others.  I’ll come back to it in a moment.  But first, some useful background.

In a general sense, a culture’s fertility rate hints at its character.  It also suggests its health.  Bearing and raising children is serious business.  It demands sacrifices.  But for anyone with a generous spirit, it also creates love and hope, and trust in a meaningful future, because the instinct to “be fruitful and multiply” (Genesis 1:28, 9:1) is hardwired into the human species. …

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