Yesterday was Sunday. I think of it as the Sabbath, even though I know that the Sabbath is a Jewish observance that typically happened on the last day of the week, Saturday. But still, from what I understand, Christians co-opted the Sabbath and moved it to the first day of the ...

I hope to offer a reflection on Andy Crouch's Playing God on Monday. For now, I will simply say that if you are interested in culture, sociology, and the Christian story, this book is for you. And in case I haven't been clear about it already, Kate Braestrup's Here if You Need ...

There's a video making the Internet rounds. It introduces us to Heath White, a father who didn't always love his daughter Paisley. Heath reads a letter in which he confesses that before Paisley was born, he urged his wife to have an abortion. Paisley was prenatally diagnosed ...

I first met Tryn Miller online a year ago when I ran a series about Down syndrome and friendship. Tryn, who has Down syndrome, and her friend Anna, wrote about their relationship (For Tryn's, click here and for Anna's click here). When I started thinking about the question of ...

This morning my middle son Caleb said he missed his brother Adam who has been at respite all week. Adam goes to respite periodically because Adam is classed as disabled. He has Down syndrome and Autism, and has recently finished two and a half years of hospital-based treatment ...

I am honored to share with you a guest post from author and ethicist Hans Reinders. As his bio attests below, Dr. Reinders has thought and written about ethics and disability for many years, and his thinking had a profound effect on my own understanding of the place of people ...

One of my biggest fears for Penny when she was diagnosed with Down syndrome was that she wouldn't have friends.

The other fears I had in the hospital all those years ago have dissipated. Some–like my fear that I wouldn't love her as she continued to grow up–seem laughable now. ...