Posted on Apr 24th, 2012 in
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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...
by Stacie Longwell Hill, guest blogger Editorial note from Ellen: I was thrilled to recently make the acquaintance of Stacie Longwell Hill, who has experience in both bioethics and as an embryologist in a fertility clinic. She shares my Christian ...
Posted on Mar 14th, 2012 in
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Protestantism,
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As a lifelong Protestant, I’m always surprised to find myself defending Catholic positions on reproductive ethics when others criticize them. Often, people’s criticisms of Catholic teachings about reproduction and sex are based on laughably...
Posted on Mar 12th, 2012 in
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Hartford Courant columnist Rick Green featured me and my book, No Easy Choice: A Story of Disability, Parenthood, and Faith in an Age of Advanced Reproduction, in a column in today’s paper. He and I had a long and far-ranging … Continue r...
Posted on Mar 8th, 2012 in
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In re-reading Kathleen Norris’s sort-of-memoir Acedia and Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer’s Life, I came across this declaration: I am telling stories, not writing prescriptions. And I thought, Yes! Yes. Me too. In writing about her exp...