Posted on May 7th, 2013 in
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Rachel Held Evans,
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Blogger/author Rachel Held Evans wrote an excellent post last week titled Why Progressive Christians Should Care About Abortion. She traced her own history, from embracing an evangelical pro-life stance to her gradual understanding of abortion’s ...
Posted on Mar 12th, 2013 in
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disabilities,
disability,
ethics,
family,
identity narrative of disability,
illness narrative of disability,
Joshua Miele,
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OI,
pain,
parenthood,
prenatal testing,
reproductive technology,
suffering,
writing
Last week’s New York Times featured a story about Joshua Miele, who at the age of four in 1973, answered the door of his Brooklyn home to a man he recognized as a neighbor. The man, for no reason other than his disordered thinking due to mental i...
Posted on Mar 6th, 2013 in
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disability,
ethics,
fertility clinics,
God,
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IVF,
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suffering,
surrogacy
Fundamentally, it is simply a sad story, one that took place just a few miles from where I live, in the hospital where I gave birth to two of my own babies. As CNN reports, Connecticut resident Crystal Kelley agreed to carry a baby for a couple who had...
Roger Olson, an evangelical blogger here on Patheos, wrote a post last week on “Why I Am Not a Liberal Christian.” He offered six criteria by which to evaluate whether someone is a liberal or conservative Christian. For example, a conservat...
Posted on Feb 6th, 2013 in
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disability,
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family,
fertility clinics,
gender selection,
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Think Christian
I have a post on Think Christian about how the Christian preoccupation with abortion has limited and skewed our ability to respond effectively to new reproductive technologies. From my post: Forty years after Roe v. Wade, abortion remains a dividing li...