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September 2012

September 11, 2012

Before Everything Changed

(Adapted from a post originally published on my former blog, Five Dollars and Some Common...

September 04, 2012

The Life and Death of My Tattoo: Postscript

People keep talking about my tattoo. Everyone has a different take on the story of...

August 2012

August 31, 2012

Patheos (& Other) Peeps: Chris Travis on How Our Insignificant Work Becomes Significant

On Fridays, I publicize work by other writers. I focus often but not exclusively on...

August 29, 2012

Lessons from Acadia

We just returned from a quick, relatively last-minute family trip to Acadia National Park and...

August 24, 2012

Patheos (& Other) Peeps: Rachel Marie Stone on Loving Our Neighbor By Getting Our Kids Vaccinated

On Fridays, I share links to blog posts by other writers. I link often but...

August 21, 2012

The Myth of the Overscheduled Child

My kids are sometimes overscheduled, but not for the reason you think. (Oh, and they're...

August 08, 2012

Does Prenatal Testing Equal Eugenics?

My colleague and friend Amy Julia Becker had an interesting conversation on her blog earlier...

August 06, 2012

The Life and Death of My Tattoo

A couple of weeks ago, I decided to get a tattoo. This idea came out...

July 2012

July 30, 2012

We Pushed Our Luck, and Got This Guy: Deciding to Have the Third Baby

(Editorial Note: I'm including an excerpt from my book below, so this is more an...

July 18, 2012

Valuing Life, Preventing Suffering: A Central Tension in Genetic Screening for Disability

I'm attending and speaking at the 3rd annual Summer Institute on Theology and Disability, held...

July 17, 2012

Plugging in Again….A Little Reluctantly

Did I say I was taking a three-week break from blogging? Yes. Yes I did....

June 2012

June 07, 2012

That Darn Camel: Raising Conscientious Kids in a Stuff-Oriented Culture

by Jennifer Grant This is the fourth of a series of five posts exploring money...

June 04, 2012

That Darn Camel: My Struggle with Tithing

"Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye...

June 01, 2012

Patheos (& Other) Peeps: Katherine Willis Pershey on Marriage, Motherhood, and Ministry

Every Friday, I feature something written by one of my fellow bloggers at Patheos, a...

May 2012

May 25, 2012

Patheos (& Other) Peeps: Christian Piatt on Fatherhood, Anxiety, and Love That Longs for Expression

Every Friday, I feature something written by one of my fellow bloggers at Patheos, a...

May 24, 2012

This is What Love Looks Like

A mother, mother-in-law, aunt, grandmother, and great-grandmother dies, and we gather. We walk through Ruby's...

May 14, 2012

Two Posts I’m Not Going to Write

It is a constant bloggerly temptation to feel that I have to weigh in on...

May 11, 2012

MOMumental: A Parenting Book Even I Can Endorse

Let’s be clear: I do not “do” parenting books. I don’t read books about how...

May 10, 2012

A Collection of Stories About Reproductive Technology

As Amy Julia Becker so eloquently wrote in her review of my book last week,...

May 07, 2012

No Easy Choice: A Review and a Q&A

Fellow Patheos blogger has written a lovely review of my book, No Easy Choice: A...

May 01, 2012

The Scary Side of Noninvasive Prenatal Testing

Will insurance companies someday help bring about a "Gattaca-like two-tiered society, in which parents with...

April 2012

April 24, 2012

A Conversation About Reproductive Decisions and Faith

I was privileged to have a wonderful conversation several weeks ago with Martha Manikas-Foster, who...

April 13, 2012

Patheos (& Other) Peeps: Alison Hodgson on Etiquette for Perilous Times

Every Friday, I post a link to a blog post, sometimes written by one of...

April 06, 2012

A Poem for Good Friday

For the epigraph in my book No Easy Choice, I chose a stanza from Wendell...

April 05, 2012

Two New Reviews of “No Easy Choice”

I'm still on something of a blogging break, though I hope to be back to...

April 03, 2012

Just Look Up (A Meditation of Sorts on Psalm 123)

I woke up yesterday feeling surrounded. Put upon. Up to my eyeballs in shhh...tuff. In...

March 2012

March 20, 2012

Why I Still Watch “American Idol”

Yes, I know American Idol is passe. The audience numbers are way down. The show...

March 14, 2012

Three Things I Admire About Catholic Reproductive Ethics

As a lifelong Protestant, I'm always surprised to find myself defending Catholic positions on reproductive...

March 12, 2012

Basic Info for New Readers Who Read About Me in the Hartford Courant

Hartford Courant columnist Rick Green featured me and my book, No Easy Choice: A Story...

March 08, 2012

Why I Wrote a Wishy-Washy Book

In re-reading Kathleen Norris's sort-of-memoir Acedia and Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life,...