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March 2013

March 19, 2013

Life with Down Syndrome in Zambia

An interview with a mother of a child with Down syndrome in Zambia in honor...

March 14, 2013

Two-Headed Baby Born in Brazil (Guest Post by Margot Starbuck)

"Throughout the gospels, Jesus not only does not retreat from those his culture considered other,...

March 13, 2013

Missing Out on Beautiful: A Reflection on Down Syndrome, Life, and Love

How can I put into words the beauty I see when I look at my...

March 12, 2013

What Are You Teaching Your Children About Food? A Guest Post from Rachel Marie Stone

"I felt I was receiving conflicting messages: the first being that my baby’s well-being was...

March 11, 2013

Worth Reading: Boys and Dolls, Down Syndrome, and Who Is the Mom?

A few posts and articles from the past few weeks that are worth passing along:...

March 06, 2013

What Does Food Have to do with Prenatal Testing?

The first review of my ebook (plus a giveaway), What Every Woman Needs to Know...

February 2013

February 27, 2013

Blessed Imperfection: A Girl Learns to Jump and Her Mother, To Take Her First Steps by Kristina Robb Dover

"Catholic theologian Hans Urs Von Balthasar has said “perfection consists in fullness of [life’s] journey;”...

February 20, 2013

My Kids Keep Teaching Me How to Pray

"I have so much in my head. I need to pray a lot."

February 13, 2013

Telling Penny About When She Was Born, and an Interview with Family Life

What I wish I could have said to Penny about how I felt after I...

February 04, 2013

If You are Pro-Life, Should You Pursue Prenatal Testing?

Every pregnant woman will be offered prenatal testing for some genetic conditions. What should you...

January 2013

January 30, 2013

On Identity, Being an Evangelical, and Writing

Kristina Robb Dover, blogger at Saints and Sinners over at beliefnet, recently asked if she...

January 29, 2013

Why I Wish I Had Chosen Prenatal Testing by Patti Rice

One pro-life mother reflects on why she wishes she had known prenatally that her daughter...

January 24, 2013

A Good and Perfect Gift Available for FREE Today Only!

For one day only, A Good and Perfect Gift is free for Kindle, Nook, or...

January 18, 2013

Respecting Atheism While Believing in Jesus

Buechner writes, "...the war I fought was to convince as many as I could that...

January 15, 2013

Why I Don’t Think Random Acts of Kindness are all that Great

Solitary random acts of kindness don't ask nearly enough of us.

January 14, 2013

When Turning Four Means a Death Sentence: Russia, Adoption, and Down syndrome

Our friends are trying to adopt a boy with Down syndrome from Russia, but he...

January 10, 2013

Mommy, What Does Forgive Mean?

How fighting with my son and a murder case in Florida helped me understand more...

January 07, 2013

What Penny’s Birthday and Epiphany Taught Me About Who We All Are

I look forward to the mystery unfolding before me in each of my children

January 03, 2013

Summarizing 2012, or Not…

Some lists of good reads from the past year, and my Q Talk on prenatal...

December 2012

December 24, 2012

Christmas and the Broken Ballerina

This is a guest post by Nancy Jo Sullivan, author of Small Mercies. I will...

December 23, 2012

For Those Who Mourn This Christmas

I have had a number of people ask me how I respond to the Sandy...

December 21, 2012

Joy All Year Long, and Even in the Midst of Sorrow

"...this year, of all years, I want to celebrate the birth of love within our...

December 20, 2012

What I will Teach my Children After Sandy Hook

I want goodness to triumph in my children's lives, and one thing I can do...

December 18, 2012

Sin, Sickness, and Sandy Hook

The gospel offers a nuanced perspective on how we might explain Adam Lanza's actions.

December 17, 2012