Every Friday, I post a link to a blog post, sometimes written by one of my fellow bloggers at Patheos, a web portal devoted to religion and spirituality, and sometimes by another blogger whose work I admire. I encourage my blog readers to click through...
Posted on Apr 26th, 2012 in Uncategorized
I mentioned in Tuesday’s post that in a recent radio interview, the host referred to what I do in No Easy Choice as “educational storytelling.” I and several readers (thanks Alison and Rachel!) think that’s an excellent term for...
Posted on Apr 25th, 2012 in
poetry,
writing
Rather frequently, someone asks me if I ever expect to write fiction. My answer: To me, fiction writing is a sort of magic. It is miraculous, this process of creating fully formed human characters from one’s imagination and writing multi-layered,...
Posted on Apr 24th, 2012 in
books,
Christianity,
church,
disabilities,
disability,
embodied faith,
ethics,
family,
fertility clinics,
God,
infertility,
interviews,
IVF,
No Easy Choice,
OI,
parenthood,
PGD,
prenatal testing,
reproductive technology,
suffering
I was privileged to have a wonderful conversation several weeks ago with Martha Manikas-Foster, who hosts a show called Inside Out for Family Life Radio. Martha and I have talked and corresponded over the past couple of years about several topics, most...
I returned yesterday from the biannual Festival of Faith and Writing in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It was everything I expected it to be, and nothing like what I expected it to be. I did much less “schmoozing” and making connections (with book...