Hope Deferred: Heart-Healing Reflections On Reproductive Loss

Infertility affects nearly 6.1 million women and 2.1 million married couples in the United States. Additionally, 25 percent of women of childbearing age will experience a miscarriage and one in 80 pregnancies will end in a stillbirth. In Hope Deferred, we hear the voices of five female scholars from a variety of Christian denominations--Church of the Brethren, Disciples of Christ, Lutheran, Presbyterian, and Roman Catholic--as they share their very private stories of painful loss in the hope of bringing comfort and a theological understanding to those who have experienced reproductive loss.

Nadine Pence Frantz is associate professor of theological studies at Bethany Theological Seminary in Richmond, Indiana. She earned her PhD from the University of Chicago.

Mary T. Stimming is adjunct professor of theology at Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. She earned her PhD from the University of Chicago.

Serene Jones is President of Union Theological Seminary in New York. Prior to joining Union, she served as Professor of Theology at Yale Divinity School for seventeen years. She is the author of several books, including "Calvin and Rhetoric: Christian Doctrine and the Art of Eloquence " and "Trauma and Grace: Theology in a Ruptured World", both published by WJK.

Kvam is Professor of Theology at St. Paul School of Theology in Kansas City.