A Surprising Hope: Barren Wombs and Unexpected Fruitfulness

Taken from the Theology Matters conference of 2021.

J. Todd Billings
J. Todd Billings
J. Todd Billings, Th.D. (Harvard University) is the Gordon H. Girod Research Professor of Reformed Theology at Western Theological Seminary, Holland, Michigan.

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