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July 2012

July 26, 2012

Resources for Women with a Prenatal Diagnosis of Down syndrome

As many of you know, I've been working on an ebook about prenatal testing for...

July 24, 2012

How Much Does God Love You?

Last fall, my I wrote about my fears about moving. Yesterday, I learned how those...

July 16, 2012

Lies I Used to Believe About Disability

When our daughter Penny was diagnosed with Down syndrome shortly after birth, I discovered that...

July 12, 2012

What Does “Preventive” Care Mean? Further Thoughts on Prenatal Testing, Abortion, and Down syndrome

Prenatal testing was developed for the purpose of selective abortion, but has selective abortion been...

July 12, 2012

Supreme Court Unexpectedly Upholds Regulatory Elimination of Down Syndrome

Is a new type of eugenics the unexpected result of the Affordable Care Act?

July 06, 2012

Good News for Fetuses with Down syndrome in Massachusetts?

As Bonnie Rochman reported for Healthland on Time.com last week: Of the myriad things that...

July 02, 2012

Grateful for Down Syndrome?

I continue to believe that there is something about Down syndrome that is good, that...

June 2012

June 28, 2012

On Love, Waiting for God, and What Makes Us Human

I hope that having Penny in my life has taught me first and foremost to...

June 25, 2012

One Change I Would Make to A Good and Perfect Gift (plus an interview and a giveaway)

Every perfectionist knows that perfection (by any measure) isn’t possible, but the pretense of it...

June 22, 2012

Do Your Abilities Determine Who You Are?

Is your identity comprised of what you do? Or who you love?

June 12, 2012

Penny Finishes Kindergarten

...my daughter has been included and accepted for who she is. She has grown in...

June 10, 2012

Down syndrome, prenatal testing, and abortion–it’s complicated

Ross Douthat recently wrote a column about "Eugenics, Past and Future." He writes: given our...

June 07, 2012

A Good and Perfect Gift for $2.99, and other book news

A Good and Perfect Gift has been selected by Amazon as one of 100 books...

May 2012

May 30, 2012

How Can You Talk with your Kids About Disability?

William came home from school a few weeks back and he said, "Mom." He said...

May 28, 2012

Down syndrome and abortion, Bristol Palin, and me (plus a book giveaway)

Some of you may know that Bristol Palin has recently joined the roster of Patheos...

May 24, 2012

Upcoming Events: Germantown, MD, New York City, and Chicago

For any of you who have checked my website lately, you might have noticed it's...

May 17, 2012

“A Perfect Child” Wins First Place…

"My Perfect Child," an essay in Christianity Today about coming to understand Penny as a...

May 15, 2012

Isabel and Sam: Friends without Labels

A few weeks ago, I ran a series of posts about the possibilities for friendship...

May 14, 2012

Talking with 100 Huntley Street about parenting, Down syndrome, and transformation

I'm still working to get the eye makeup off after a really nice morning on...

May 09, 2012

A Good and Perfect Gift revisited

A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to talk with Tony Rossi about A...

May 09, 2012

George Will’s Son, Rick Santorum’s Daughter, and Penny

I just realized that I forgot to tell you all that Quin Hillyer reviewed A...

May 08, 2012

Our Good and Perfect Gift

When Penny was first born, when the doctors shocked us with the news that she...

May 04, 2012

An Unexpected Friendship by Anna Broadway

When the topic of friendship and people with disabilities came up in a discussion several...

May 03, 2012

Friendship: A Family that Cannot be Broken by Tryn Miller

In my years of growing up with a disability, it has been difficult to make...

May 01, 2012

On Limitations, Grief that Turns to Joy, and the Blessings and Difficulties of Down syndrome

I had the pleasure of speaking with Lynne Ford of Mid-morning, a radio show in...

April 2012

April 30, 2012

Can Kids with Disabilities Make Friends?

One of my earliest fears for Penny, and consequently one of my earliest prayers, had...

April 26, 2012

The Difference Between Brokenness and Limitations

Brokenness and limitations are not the same thing. Brokenness, whether physical, emotional, or spiritual, is...

April 25, 2012

Perfectly Human: A Little Extra (and Mother’s day is coming up…)

Mother's Day is coming up. And a friend recently suggested I offer a shameless plug...

April 04, 2012

Are Children With Down Syndrome “Special”?

I tend to balk at generalized statements about kids and adults with Down syndrome. There's...

April 02, 2012

Creating Space in the Church for People with Disabilities

I had a wonderful time in North Carolina last week, and I hope I'll take...

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