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May 2012

May 16, 2012

Why Adoption Feels Harder than Abortion

I've held naive assumptions about both abortion and adoption in the past, and I've asked...

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 11, 2012

Things I Love About Being a Mother

This post started out with a different title: "Things I Love, Hate, and Wish I...

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 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 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 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 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 27, 2012

Hurry or Help?

Penny and William and I were reading Thomas the Train a while back, and Thomas...

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 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 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...

April 13, 2012

Bloom Where You Are Planted: Why We Chose Public School by Sarah Reimers

Many years ago, a mentor told me, “Be careful what you teach on, because the...

April 12, 2012

Why I Homeschool by Marlene Molewyk

Many years ago, my husband John asked me to consider homeschooling our children. I immediately...

April 12, 2012

Duty and Desire: The Best Hope for Our Children’s Education by Steven Garber

There are very few absolutes in this life. What kind of school our children attend...

April 11, 2012

The Safety of a Christian School by Elisabeth Klein Corcoran

Christian school was never in the plan or the budget for my kids. I liked...

April 11, 2012

An Unexpected Choice: Why We Traded the Public School for Homeschooling by Helen Lee

When I was 6 and my dad had been hired by the U.S. government to...

April 10, 2012

Learning to Choose: From Private Christian School to Public by Margaret Philbrick

After nine years in a private Christian grammar school our son stepped into his freshman...

April 10, 2012

“This is a God Place”: Why I Send My Kids to Christian School by Abigail Liu

Ms. Baker passed me the bag with the wet shirt at school pick-up. My shirt-sucking...

April 09, 2012

Where Should Christians Send Their Kids to School?

I have a new article for Christianity Today's magazine that is now available online: The...

April 09, 2012

Why I Need Spirituality and Religion to Be a Good Mom

Those of you who read this blog regularly know that the demands of family life...

April 09, 2012

My Best Blog Post Ever?

My friend Ellen Painter Dollar invited me to join her in her "Best Thing" Blog...

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