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December 2011

December 12, 2011

A Good (if not exactly perfect?) Christmas Gift

My sister-in-law and I tried to make Christmas a little simpler this year. At first,...

December 06, 2011

Too Many Big Rocks

Years ago, I watched a camp counselor illustrate a point. He held an empty jar,...

December 02, 2011

A Good and Perfect Gift, Revisited

I have a new essay in the December issue of Christianity Today (and if you're...

December 01, 2011

They’re Growing Up

I wanted to write a lyrical essay about our week in New Orleans for Thanksgiving....

November 2011

November 30, 2011

Penny and me on Time.com

Bonnie Rochman has a new article at Time.com called "Are Kids With Down Syndrome on...

November 30, 2011

Concluding the Abortion Debate–Did You Change Your Mind?

A few final words, in the wake of the essays and discussion surrounding Christians who...

November 29, 2011

Questions for Ellen Painter Dollar on Being Pro-Choice Part Two

What restrictions would you put on reproductive choice? Fervent pro-choice advocates face a dilemma as...

November 29, 2011

Questions for Ellen Painter Dollar on Being Pro-Choice Part One

We have three more posts related to abortion--Ellen Painter Dollar's answers to my questions, which...

November 28, 2011

Questions for Karen Swallow Prior on Being Pro-Life

Two weeks ago, I posted two essays about abortion. In the first one, Karen Swallow...

November 24, 2011

Happy Thanksgiving

I'm thankful for God's sweetness to us, which sounds very cheesy, but I use the...

November 22, 2011

Will Your Kids Keep the Faith?

I had a post last week on her.meneutics, "Why Teens Drift Away From Faith" that...

November 21, 2011

Pro-Choice and Pro-Life or Somewhere In Between?

Much thanks to Ellen Painter Dollar and Karen Swallow Prior for their posts last week...

November 17, 2011

What Do You Think About Abortion?

Abortion has been legal across the United States for forty years now, and yet the...

November 16, 2011

A Good and Perfect Gift Recent Reviews

Marilee and I head up to Boston today, and I'm looking forward to visiting...

November 16, 2011

Faith, Down syndrome, and Becoming Human

I read Kathryn Soper's The Year My Son and I Were Born when it was...

November 14, 2011

An Early Thanksgiving

For the first time in I don't know how long, we spent the weekend...

November 11, 2011

The Meaning of Providence

I wrote a post last week called "We're Moving, or the Providence of God" in...

November 09, 2011

Measuring a Life, or Kindergarten Update

I was having dinner with friends a few weeks back. They have an adult daughter...

November 08, 2011

What I’ve Learned from Penny: An Interview on Her.meneutics

My friend and colleague Karen Swallow Prior interviewed me about A Good and Perfect Gift...

November 07, 2011

A Good and Perfect Gift in Publisher’s Weekly Top Ten . . .

I can't really believe that I'm about to write this, but I just found out...

November 07, 2011

Who is at the Center of your Family?

I wrote last week about our upcoming move to a small boarding school in Connecticut,...

November 04, 2011

A Good and Perfect Gift Reviews: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly

A Good and Perfect Gift has been "out there" for about two months now, and...

November 03, 2011

Quick Family and Blog Archives Update

I wrote on Tuesday about missing Penny's Halloween party. She was very forgiving, but I...

November 03, 2011

We’re Moving, or the Providence of God

My husband has a new job. It doesn't start until July, but he was recently...

November 01, 2011

I Missed the Halloween Party ?!?

Halloween. Never a holiday that brings out the best in me. Last year's Halloween post...

October 2011

October 31, 2011

I Don’t Know How She Does It . . .

Marilee and I just returned from a 5 day road trip to Richmond, Virginia. We...

October 28, 2011

Everything I Ever Needed to Learn . . .

For those of you who read this blog regularly, you know that Penny started kindergarten...

October 25, 2011

Hat Trick, and October is National Down Syndrome Awareness Month

This post is an excuse to a) show you what Penny did at her babysitter's...

October 24, 2011

What Good Are Emotions?

My mother-in-law used to have a list of "feeling words" on her refrigerator. They were...

October 21, 2011

Disability Matters to All of Us . . .

I can understand why lots of people assume that I wrote A Good and Perfect...

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