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September 2016

September 12, 2016

Disability as the Last Acceptable Prejudice: A Farewell Blog Post (For Now)

In the face of entrenched prejudice and misunderstanding about disabilities and the people who live...

April 2016

April 30, 2016

Consider the Birds: What happens to a writer (this writer) when words fail

The birds are trying to tell me something. If only I could figure out what....

July 2015

July 23, 2015

Seven Favorite Posts on Disability, in Honor of the ADA’s 25th Anniversary

On the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), I'm sharing seven of...

June 2015

June 15, 2015

Why Slow Writing is the Only Kind I Want to Do

Fallow times are as necessary for writers as they are for fields and gardens. We...

March 2015

March 13, 2015

Rethinking Margaret Sanger, Contraception, & How We are All a Moral “Mixed Bag”

A mixed bag. We are all a mixed bag. This is Theology 101, a most...

December 2014

December 30, 2014

14 Blog Posts from 2014 That You Need to Read

These are the posts written in 2014 for which I had immediate recall because they...

December 29, 2014

On Assisted Suicide and Chronic Pain, Sex and Prayer, DNA and Ice Buckets: Top 10 Posts of 2014

The 10 most-read blog posts of 2014—a list that provides a good snapshot of topics...

October 2014

October 15, 2014

Rethinking Prayer

I have struggled to pray for most of my life. Prayer has rarely made sense...

October 02, 2014

No Easy Choices When It Comes to Genetics, Disability, and Reproductive Decisions

TIME Magazine online picked up my post from earlier this week on whether a parent might...

September 2014

September 18, 2014

These Are My Favorite Memoirs. What Are Yours?

After reading my post on 3 Mistakes to Avoid When Writing Memoir, a colleague asked...

September 08, 2014

Kids, Kidneys and Other Distractions

It's normal for me to be less productive in the final weeks of August, as...

August 2014

August 06, 2014

3 Mistakes to Avoid When Writing Memoir

Let's make one thing clear up front: I am drawing here on my experience as...

July 2014

July 17, 2014

Why Talking Evangelical is Good for Your Blog Stats

A few months ago, I tweeted this: “Reason #437 I love being an Episcopalian: No...

May 2014

May 12, 2014

In Defense of Social Media

To dismiss the online world as a repository for irrelevant banter by narcissistic blowhards who...

May 05, 2014

When a Viral Blog Post Doesn’t Change Much of Anything

Being a writer is primarily about writing—not about following some social media guru's five-step system...

April 2014

April 29, 2014

Troll-Proofing Our Online Writing

At the Festival of Faith and Writing two weeks ago in Grand Rapids, Michigan, my...

March 2014

March 18, 2014

How the Internet is Killing the Book Review

Now that I own a Kindle, my ever-raging thirst for new reading material can be...

February 2014

February 04, 2014

God Does Not Make Me Happy (or Three Things I Learned About My Relationship with God)

Last weekend, I went on a one-night retreat with my church's vestry. (In an Episcopal...

January 2014

January 08, 2014

Painfully Aware of the Abyss: A Review of Holly Burkhalter’s “Good God, Lousy World, & Me”

I once read a novel in which the protagonist divided humankind into two categories: those...

January 01, 2014

My (Unmeasurable) New Year’s Resolutions

The time seems right for me to make some resolutions for 2014. Because I broke...

December 2013

December 31, 2013

My Most Popular Posts of 2013

Here's a round-up of my most popular blog posts of 2013. Perhaps there's something here...

December 16, 2013

Books to Read and Give: My 2013 Favorites

As many of you know, I fell on the ice a couple of weeks ago,...

November 2013

November 29, 2013

Stuck in the Middle with Bonhoeffer

So, this arrived on my doorstep about two weeks ago. I agreed to read and...

November 19, 2013

“We can just love them”: Adoptive Parents on Their Kids with Special Needs

In honor of National Adoption Month, I'm featuring below an excerpt from Love You More: The...

November 13, 2013

How to Promote Yourself (& Others) Without Driving People Crazy

In my online group of women writers, we've been discussing Kat Stoeffel's article on New York...

November 04, 2013

My Story, and My Take on Narrative Ethics, in a Nutshell

I have a cover article in the current issue of the Christian Century that summarizes the...

September 2013

September 24, 2013

A Story About the Abundance, and Absence, of Memory and Faith

Walker has written a story about Alzheimer's, yes, and about her mother, and about her....

September 05, 2013

How Screens are NOT Ruining My Family’s Life (& Maybe Even Making It Better)

This headline from the Huffington Post: “8 Ways Screens are Ruining Your Family’s Life.” Ah,...

August 2013

August 18, 2013

On Disquiet Time and Chickens

Hello friends. I am popping in to say that I will be blogging minimally between...

July 2013

July 29, 2013

The Only Really Honest Ones? Addiction and Grace in “Sober Mercies”

I recently reviewed Heather Kopp's memoir, Sober Mercies: How Love Caught Up with a Christian Drunk...