Lot of great stuff to read this week:
Faith and Culture
As the first interview in a series of interviews about religion, Gary Gutting of The New York Times explores the question "Is Atheism Irrational?" with Alvin Plantinga.
"In a fractured and mobile ...
In the fall of 2003, I was with my mother-in-law as she died. In many ways, it was a good death. She died at home, surrounded by friends and family, with the scent of lavender oil and prayers from the Book of Common Prayer and a palpable love for her and grief over her passing. ...
Last week my son William curled up against me on the couch as we watched the women's figure skating. "Which country is she from?" he asked.
"I don't know," I said, as she began what looked like an effortless glide across the ice.
"Well, ...
A friend of mine read a prayer at church yesterday which included a reference to "the epileptic boy." She received criticism later on because she hadn't used "person-first" language. She hadn't put the boy first and his diagnosis second. She could ...
If your bedside table looks anything like mine, it holds a stack of books that continually threatens to tip over. So every week, I take a minute to give you a peek into the books I'm currently enjoying, as well as a list of articles on faith, family, disability, and culture ...
In addition to the video chat about this blog with Katelyn Beaty yesterday (and for those of you who might be like me and prefer reading words to watching conversations), I thought I'd offer a few thoughts on what to expect from this blog going forward.
The title of ...
In early 2010, Amy Julia Becker was a wife and mother of two, an MDiv student at Princeton Theological Seminary, and the author of an unpublished book about raising a child with Down syndrome. The book had been rejected by 48 publishers. "I put the project away, focused ...
