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April 2010

April 28, 2010

Imitating Love

I'm sure that everyone knows the feeling. One day you hear yourself talking, and you...

April 27, 2010

“I did awesome jumping Mom”

Every Friday when I pick Penny up from school, she has stickers on her back....

April 26, 2010

How Down Syndrome has Opened my Eyes to the World

A few months after our daughter Penny was born with Down syndrome, a friend of...

April 23, 2010

Yoga and Christianity: What’s the Deal?

I have a new post at her.meneutics called, "Yoga, an Exercise in Discernment." It begins:About...

April 22, 2010

Prayer is Stupid, Unless…

On Good Friday, Peter and I went to our church to participate in a 24-hour...

April 22, 2010

Prayer Is Stupid, Unless…

On Good Friday, Peter and I went to our church to participate in a 24-hour...

April 21, 2010

Fragility and Strength: Or, Can You Believe This Orchid is Still Alive?

I wrote these lines in August of 2007, when Penny was 20 months old:When Penny...

April 20, 2010

Sex and Jesus?

So I never did get to tell you more about the Festival of Faith and...

April 19, 2010

Faith and Writing

I returned last night from Calvin College's Festival of Faith and Writing. And I'm marking...

April 16, 2010

Understanding God in the midst of Suffering

"A God you understand would be less than yourself." Flannery O'Connor (The Habit of Being,...

April 15, 2010

The Joys and Dangers of Spiritual Writing

"Almost any spiritual writer ought to wear thin for you. It's like reading criticism of...

April 14, 2010

Picnics and Preschools, Or, What does a budget crisis have to do with my life?

I'm the Vice President of our local Down Syndrome Association, and we have a picnic...

April 13, 2010

iHave an iPad, but at what Cost?

I have a new post at Her.meneutics, the women's blog of Christianity Today. It begins:...

April 12, 2010

By the way, we are NOT the Perfect Family

I've been writing fairly regularly about our family. Telling cute and inspirational anecdotes about Penny,...

April 09, 2010

Is it okay to say Idiot?

I've always loved language. I spoke early, and according to my mother, I wouldn't speak...

April 07, 2010

What’s it like to have a sister with Down syndrome?

When I was pregnant with William, I thought a lot about what it would be...

April 06, 2010

God’s Business and Our Success

"Has your book been successful?"It's a question I get asked regularly these days when I...

April 05, 2010

Caught Between the Easter Bunny and the Empty Grave

The Easter bunny didn't visit our house yesterday, but we did eat chocolate eggs and...

April 03, 2010

Holy Saturday

It's a day of waiting. A day between the cross and the resurrection. The place...

April 02, 2010

From Good Friday to Easter

"...faith comes and goes. It rises and falls like the tides of an invisible ocean....

April 01, 2010

Why I Need the Resurrection

I was asked to participate in another "Theoblogger challenge" on the website Patheos. The question...

March 2010

March 31, 2010

Lenten Reflections: Little Idolatries

It's such a mundane decision. Such a paltry "sacrifice." Don't drink alcohol, except on Sundays,...

March 30, 2010

Forgetting Yourself, Finding Yourself

I'm in the home stretch of writing my thesis for Seminary (for those of you...

March 30, 2010

They Cheered For Me

As readers of this blog already know, Penny attends an inclusive preschool. There are about...

March 29, 2010

Christian Impressions

Somewhat related to today's earlier post, I have a new post on 843 Acres: What...

March 29, 2010

Brother Born Again: The Tolerance of the Intolerant

What do a Jewish bisexual woman and a born-again Christian man living on a farm...

March 26, 2010

My Sister’s Name is Doha

About once a month, Penny and I take a special trip to Panera for lunch....

March 24, 2010

Lenten Reflections: Lenten Lapses

On Ash Wednesday, we knew that March would bring with it vacation. Nearly two weeks...

March 23, 2010

What does God have to say about disability?

A while ago, I read a scholarly book called Disability in the Hebrew Bible, by...

March 22, 2010

What do you think about Birth Control?

I've been reading a lot of Flannery O'Connor recently, and I came across her thoughts...

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