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July 2013

July 17, 2013

College Hookup Sex is Built on a Troubling Ethic of Achievement at Any Cost

After reading Kate Taylor’s New York Times article on the culture of casual hookup sex...

July 14, 2013

A Christian Argument for Stronger Gun Laws

Jesus was crystal clear on the question of whether violence is an acceptable response to...

July 08, 2013

Resurrection Year: Learning to Live, and Thrive, with Life as It Is Given

Our Western cultural attitudes are not well-equipped for failure. We are a culture of optimists...

July 03, 2013

You Have NO Excuse for Parking in a Handicapped Spot without a Legit Tag. Really. None.

Every summer for the past five years, I have taken my kids to swim lessons...

July 01, 2013

My Church Bells Rang in Celebration of DOMA’s Defeat

Last Thursday morning, the bells of my Episcopal church pealed to celebrate the Supreme Court's...

June 2013

June 20, 2013

5 Truths About Blogging (IMHO)

As always happens when conflict and controversy and hurt feelings come gushing forth from the...

June 18, 2013

Have One Child or Many, Just Don’t Plan on Getting What You Expect

Whether you choose to have one child or many, the children you end up with,...

June 17, 2013

A Book to Help Us Be Informed Listeners on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Whether we're telling stories or absorbing facts (or ideally, doing both), we are called to...

June 10, 2013

Instead of Judging Our Fellow Parents, How About Offering Empathy & Respect?

Parents love to judge each other for all kinds of perceived failures. Here are some...

May 2013

May 28, 2013

How Poverty Affects Vaccination Rates

Last fall I pointed blog readers to my colleague Rachel Stone's post on vaccination as...

May 23, 2013

The Kingdom Comes One Lonely Step at a Time—Until We Are Not Lonely Any More

Significant lifestyle changes (or even small changes) for the good of our earth and its...

May 22, 2013

Factory Disasters in Bangladesh, Consumerism, and Original Sin

I approach buying clothes for my children with the same compulsive attention to my kids'...

May 07, 2013

Progressive Christians Do Care About Abortion: A Response to Rachel Held Evans

Blogger/author Rachel Held Evans wrote an excellent post last week titled Why Progressive Christians Should...

May 02, 2013

Parents-to-Be Have More Choices Than Ever, But We Can’t Choose Our Way Out of Pain

Jennifer Gilmore’s story is enough to scare anyone away from open adoption. (It also provides...

May 01, 2013

Why I Don’t Call Myself a “Cancer Survivor” (& Why We Should All Think Twice Before Donning a Pink Ribbon)

Three autumns ago, I walked into a radiologist's office after a follow-up mammogram. He pointed...

April 2013

April 29, 2013

Questions Remain About the “Controversy in Candy Land”

On Saturday, Jana Riess posted a piece on her Religion News Service blog raising questions...

March 2013

March 27, 2013

Rachel Stone’s “Eat with Joy”: Why Healthy Eating Goes Beyond What We Eat

It is fitting that I’m writing this review of Rachel Stone’s new book Eat with...

March 14, 2013

Lonely People in Basements with Guns (& Why They Matter Too)

From all the fraught conversations I witnessed or participated in after the Sandy Hook shooting...

March 12, 2013

Taboo Stories About Disability: What We’re Not Allowed to Say

Last week's New York Times featured a story about Joshua Miele, who at the age...

March 11, 2013

When Conflicting Stories Are Both True: Illness, Identity, and the Tales We Tell of Living with Disability

In his vast and gripping book, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search...

March 07, 2013

Bless Those Who Curse You (& Don’t Call Them Eugenicists, Moral Monsters, or Murderers)

A friend recently sent me an article written by an Australian man who has the...

March 06, 2013

How the Story of a Surrogate, Expectant Parents, and a Baby Reveals the Pitfalls of Repro Tech

Fundamentally, it is simply a sad story, one that took place just a few miles...

March 04, 2013

The Dangers of “Solutionism” Applied to Our Always Less-than-Perfect Children

In the New York Times Sunday Review yesterday, Evgeny Morosov defines "solutionism" as "an intellectual...

February 2013

February 06, 2013

Abortion Isn’t the Only Reproductive Issue for Christians to Care About

I have a post on Think Christian about how the Christian preoccupation with abortion has...

February 05, 2013

It Is Enough: A Christian Social Media Campaign Around Gun Violence

I'm pleased to announce a new initiative, coordinated by me and pastor/writer/blogger Katherine Willis Pershey,...

February 04, 2013

Is It OK to Ask Someone About a Disability or Injury?

In our society, which has made so many strides in accessibility and understanding about various...

January 2013

January 24, 2013

Things to Ponder Before Undergoing Prenatal Testing

My friend, colleague, and fellow Patheos blogger Amy Julia Becker has a new e-book titled...

January 18, 2013

December 2012

December 21, 2012

Broken Bones, School Shootings, Divine Intentions, and Why We Suffer

As the one-year anniversary of my book publication approaches in January, I’m devoting Fridays from...