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September 2013

September 17, 2013

How My Children Have Helped Me Become Perfectly Human by Andi Sligh

"When I became a mom, I thought my job was to mold and shape my...

September 16, 2013

Will and Kate Help the World Imagine Possibilities for People with Down Syndrome

Why it matters that Will and Kate accepted a painting by a woman with Down...

July 2013

July 26, 2013

What I’m Reading and Tweeting: More on Abortion, Christian Wiman, Casual Sex, and Down syndrome

In addition to tweets mentioning articles I've read and appreciated this past week, I want...

July 24, 2013

Three Reasons Why We Might Not Want to Cure Down Syndrome

Scientists think they have discovered a way to "silence" the chromosome that causes Down syndrome....

July 22, 2013

Bridging the Abortion Divide, in conversation with Ellen Painter Dollar

How can pro-life and pro-choice people talk to each other when our political and media...

July 19, 2013

What I’m Tweeting: On Trayvon Martin, Abortion, the Bible, and More

Here's a roundup of tweets from this past week, including links to articles you might...

July 17, 2013

You’re Pregnant. How Do You Decide About Prenatal Testing?

" I had treated the decision to accept prenatal genetic testing as an inconsequential matter...

July 17, 2013

Happily Ever After, with Down Syndrome

A priest gives a woman who planned to abort her fetus with Down syndrome the...

July 15, 2013

What Trayvon Martin and Ethan Saylor Have in Common

Trayvon Martin and Ethan Saylor are both young men who died a tragic death. Why...

July 12, 2013

What I’m Tweeting

Interesting articles from the past week: Church flooded with calls to adopt baby with #downsyndrome...

July 09, 2013

Do You Listen to Audiobooks? (If so, A Good and Perfect Gift is now available…)

A Good and Perfect Gift joins the trend by becoming an audiobook...

June 2013

June 28, 2013

A Good and Perfect Gift on Audible (and Other Fun News)

For those of you who prefer listening to books to reading them (or for your...

June 26, 2013

A Trip to the Zoo, or Why Inclusion Matters

We went to the zoo. It was a simple, lovely day (only made possible by...

June 25, 2013

A Day in the Life of Penny Becker (or One Way to Help Women with a Prenatal Diagnosis of Down syndrome)

A day in the life of Penny Becker, or why you should buy something from...

June 22, 2013

Tweets This Week

For your reading pleasure this weekend: "What Happens to #Women Who Are Denied #Abortions?"

June 20, 2013

My Dreams for Penny, and Other Topics

Talking with George Estreich about family and education and what dreams we have for Penny...

June 19, 2013

Why Bother to Write About Prenatal Testing?

A continuation of my conversation with George Estreich: George Estreich: In both your book and...

June 18, 2013

Why I Write

On why I write, the authors who mean the most to me, and why stories...

June 17, 2013

Don’t You Care If We Drown?

In the midst of a raging storm, "The disciples wanted Jesus to pitch in, to...

June 15, 2013

Tweets This Week: Disability, Muslim Abortion, Inclusion, and the Only and the Lonely

So my plan going forward is to offer a post every Friday that includes articles...

June 14, 2013

What Prenatal Testing Has to Do with the Church (and Other Religious Communities)

"Even though I was an active member of our local church, it hadn’t crossed my...

June 13, 2013

Do Medical Textbooks Intentionally Offer Outdated Descriptions of Down Syndrome? and Other Questions for George Estreich

"Medicine is part of culture, and so culture, good and bad, is refracted through medicine."...

June 12, 2013

“A Doorway to a New Life”: A Conversation with George Estreich About Down Syndrome, Writing, and the Stories that Make a Family

Is Down syndrome "bad" or "hard"? George Estreich reflects on writing, family, and life with...

June 10, 2013

Quoting George Estreich on Family, Down Syndrome, and How we Tell Our Stories

My favorite passages from George Estreich's The Shape of the Eye, on family, Down syndrome,...

June 06, 2013

Questions about Disabilities, Prenatal Testing, the Church, and More

An interview with Jonathan Merritt's blog on Faith and Culture at Religion News Service.

June 04, 2013

Talking About Disability With Your Kids (on PBS Parents)

Even though I have a daughter with Down syndrome, for a long time I didn't...

May 2013

May 31, 2013

The Unfinished Child, a Story of Down Syndrome, Love, and Choice (and a Book Giveaway) Part Two

Part two of Theresa Shea's interview about her new novel, The Unfinished Child. She talks...

May 30, 2013

The Unfinished Child, a Story of Down Syndrome, Love, and Choice (and a Book Giveaway)

Novelist Theresa Shea discusses her book The Unfinished Child, a story about two families struggling...

May 28, 2013

Is She a Special Need? Down syndrome, Language, and Individuality

What image does the media offer when describing individuals with Down syndrome?

May 22, 2013

Will You Help Bring Timofei Home? Down Syndrome, the Russian Adoption Ban, and a Little Boy Who Needs a Family

What would it take for a little boy with Down syndrome in a Russian orphanage...

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