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June 2012

June 15, 2012

Articles of Interest: Eugenics, Prenatal Testing, Morality, and Prayer in the Everyday

They've done it again. Yes, scientists have accomplished something incredible. And yes, their discovery poses...

June 14, 2012

Why Stuff Matters

We've been talking about this strange process of divvying up an estate, and whether or...

June 12, 2012

Penny Finishes Kindergarten

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

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...

June 06, 2012

Open Adoption, or My Daughter has Two Mothers by Jenni Levy

My daughter has two mothers. My daughter also has two fathers, although only one is...

June 04, 2012

Abraham, Isaac, and Me: an Adoption Story by Jay

On the second day of Rosh Hashanah, we read the akeydah - the story of the...

May 2012

May 31, 2012

Love, Loss and Reflecting What is True: Margot Starbuck reflects

We walked, side by side. Slowly. A close friend was going through a divorce when...

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 25, 2012

Seeing Delane as One of Us

I received an email from a reader of this blog a few weeks ago. Lois...

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 23, 2012

Some Thoughts on Marriage

I have the privilege right now of doing premarital counseling for a young couple who...

May 21, 2012

If Your True Love Suffered a Brain Injury, What Would You Do?

They met in college and fell in love. They talked about getting married, and he...

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 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 10, 2012

Dreaming about Fashion Faux Pas and Going to Canada

I'm heading to Toronto today for a quick trip--first, tonight, to meet in person my...

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 08, 2012

Our Good and Perfect Gift

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

May 07, 2012

The Ethics of Reproductive Choices: An Interview with Ellen Painter Dollar

This morning, I linked to my post for her.meneutics in which I reviewed Ellen Painter...

May 07, 2012

Reproductive Choices in a Broken World: Reflections on Ellen Painter Dollar’s No Easy Choice

My friend and fellow Patheos blogger Ellen Painter Dollar has written a book about reproductive...

May 02, 2012

Can Kids with Disabilities BE Friends? by Benjamin Conner

(This post is Part 2. Read Part 1: Can Kids with Disabilities HAVE friends?) Many...

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...

May 01, 2012

Can Kids with Disabilities HAVE Friends? by Ben Conner

I usually visit Matt during his lunch break in a busy school cafeteria where he...

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 24, 2012

A Letter to the Church on Friendship

Intervarsity Press recently published Letters to a Future Church, written by an array of men...

April 23, 2012

A Blessed Life

Last week, I had the privilege of sharing some thoughts on the Beatitudes, Matthew 5:3-11,...

April 19, 2012

His Life Was Marked by Love, a Father’s Eulogy for his Son

I've had the honor of trading a few emails with Aaron Cobb recently. He shared...

April 18, 2012

Losing My Voice and the Festival of Faith and Writing

I lost my voice on Sunday. It happens often. Every few months, usually prompted by...

April 17, 2012

Some Thoughts on Infant Dedications, Happy Chaos, and Great Joy

Our church doesn't do infant baptisms (well, kind of, but that's another story). We do...

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