Posted on May 14th, 2013 in
Christianity,
clutter,
ethics,
family,
God,
home,
living well with less,
materialism,
parenthood,
possessions,
simple living,
simplicity,
stuff,
women
All of our stuff can distract and overwhelm us, but it can also provide context. Our clutter can remind us that matter matters, that the bodies we inhabit and tend, the food we make and eat, the clothes and toys and mementos made or given or used with ...
Posted on May 7th, 2013 in
abortion,
Christianity,
ethics,
family,
God,
parenthood,
poverty,
progressive Christian position on abortion,
progressive Christianity,
Rachel Held Evans,
reproductive technology,
women
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 May 6th, 2013 in
disabilities,
disability,
family,
kids,
marriage,
Mother's Day,
OI,
pain,
parenthood,
parenting,
Speak Up storytelling,
women
This is the story I told at this past weekend’s inaugural Speak Up storytelling event in Hartford. In my next email newsletter, I will include a link to the Speak Up podcast, which includes my telling this story to a live audience (with considera...
Posted on May 2nd, 2013 in
adoption,
disabilities,
disability,
Down syndrome,
ethics,
family,
gender selection,
Jennifer Gilmore,
kids,
KJ Dell'Antonia,
Lauren Apfel,
Motherlode,
No Easy Choice,
OI,
pain,
parenthood,
PGD,
prenatal testing,
reproductive technology,
suffering,
The Atlantic Sexes,
women
Jennifer Gilmore’s story is enough to scare anyone away from open adoption. (It also provides the best supporting evidence ever for my contention that “Why don’t you just adopt?” might be one of the stupidest questions known to huma...
Three autumns ago, I walked into a radiologist’s office after a follow-up mammogram. He pointed to my films on a computer screen, and before he spoke, I knew I had cancer. I saw the trouble clearly—a cluster of opaque white dots in the upper po...