Articles & Essays
Amy Julia is a guest opinion writer for national publications. Her essays include I’m Thankful Every Day for the Decision I Made After My Prenatal Tests for the New York Times, When Merit Drives Out Grace for Plough, The Ministry of the Disabled, a cover story for Christianity Today, and How Disability Helped Me Understand Privilege for the Washington Post.
Included in this list are also numerous reviews of Amy Julia’s books and interviews with her about her writing. You can search these articles by topic, title, publication or date below and click on the link to be directed to external sites to read the articles.
| Article | Publication/Site | Date | link | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| An Hour with Penny: Encountering Down Syndrome | The Christian Century | 1/12/10 | Read | Down Syndrome | Disability |
| The Good Life | First Things | 12/31/08 | Read | Faith | |
| The Reality of Hope | First Things | 11/17/09 | Read | Faith | |
| Burdens and Blessings | Bloom | 5/10/10 | Read | Faith | |
| Deciding Not To Screen for Down Syndrome: Why Prenatal Testing Harms as Much as it Helps | New York Times | 9/14/10 | Read | Down Syndrome | Disability |
| Is It Harder to Have a Child with Down Syndrome? | New York Times | 9/21/10 | Read | Down Syndrome | Disability |
| A Spiritual Defense of Gifts | New York Times | 12/17/10 | Read | Parenting | |
| Sleeping Like a Baby | New York Times | 5/6/11 | Read | Parenting | |
| Learning to Walk In Another's Flip Flops | New York Times | 7/28/11 | Read | Parenting | |
| Coming Home after Hurricane Irene | Christianity Today | 9/1/11 | Read | Faith | |
| Has Down Syndrome Hurt Us? | New York Times | 10/3/11 | Read | Down Syndrome | Disability |
| With Breakthroughs in Testing, a Choice Becomes Tougher | Time | 11/29/11 | Read | Down Syndrome | Disability |
| My Perfect Child | Christianity Today | 11/30/11 | Read | Down Syndrome | Disability |
| How Global Christians Build Bridges around Down Syndrome | Christianity Today | 3/21/12 | Read | Down Syndrome | Disability |
| Finding The Words To Talk About Disability | HuffPost | 5/30/12 | Read | Disability | |
| Asking Why After a Child's Accidental Death | Christianity Today | 8/1/12 | Read | Faith | Parenting |
| We Didn't Run Away | Huffington Post | 9/10/12 | Read | Parenting | Down Syndrome |
| The Importance of Teaching Children Kindness at a Very Young Age | The Atlantic | 12/19/12 | Read | Parenting | |
| The Social Construction of Selective Abortion | The Atlantic | 1/22/13 | Read | Disability | |
| Roommates and friends: A seminary does disability ministry | The Christian Century | 2/6/13 | Read | Disability | |
| Better Prenatal Testing Does Not Mean More Abortion | The Atlantic | 2/21/13 | Read | Disability | Down Syndrome |
| Missing Out on Beautiful | HuffPost | 3/13/13 | Read | Down Syndrome | Disability |
| North Dakota's Ban is A Bad Way to Stop Selective Abortion | The Atlantic | 4/4/13 | Read | Disability | |
| Loving people with disabilities: An interview with Amy Julia Becker | Religion News Service | 6/5/13 | Read | Disability | Down Syndrome |
| Can kids with Down syndrome have friends? | Religion News Service | 10/1/14 | Read | Down Syndrome | Disability |
| Parents, Take Your Kids Seriously | USA Today | 10/24/14 | Read | Parenting | |
| How Having Kids Helped Me Grow Up | Huffington Post | 10/31/14 | Read | Parenting | |
| When a Little Girl With Down Syndrome Showed What's 'Possible' | ABC News | 12/1/14 | Read | Down Syndrome | Disability |
| Talking About the Holidays With My Kids | Rachel Held Evans | 12/19/14 | Read | Parenting | Faith |
| Countdown to Santa: How to keep Christ in Christmas tomorrow | Religion News Service | 12/24/14 | Read | Parenting | Faith |
| Parents: Give Up Your Great Expectations | Christianity Today, Her.meneutics | 3/1/15 | Read | Parenting | Faith |
| Ordinary Moms, Everyday Heroes | Christianity Today, Her.meneutics | 5/1/15 | Read | Parenting | Faith |
| Message in the Mess | InTouch Ministries | 5/1/15 | Read | Faith | Parenting |
| Let's Stop Pretending We're Being Inclusive on the National Day of Prayer | Washington Post | 5/6/15 | Read | Faith | |
| A Light in the Darkness | Breakpoint | 10/7/15 | Read | Faith | |
| Down Syndrome Awareness Month: A Day in the Life of a 9-Year-Old Girl | ABC News | 10/13/15 | Read | Down Syndrome | Disability |
| 10 Things I've Learned from My Daughter with Down Syndrome | Parents Magazine | 2/16/16 | Read | Down Syndrome | Disability |
| The Ethics of a Pill for Down Syndrome | The Atlantic | 3/15/16 | Read | Down Syndrome | Disability |
| Your Kids Don't Need a Megachurch | Christianity Today | 4/26/16 | Read | Faith | |
| Why We Need "Useless" People | Christianity Today | 3/21/17 | Read | Disability | |
| Why I am Ditching the Label "Evangelical" in the Trump Era | Washington Post | 10/18/17 | Read | Faith | |
| On World Down Syndrome Day, a mother's tribute to her daughter's 'exceptional' community | ABC News | 3/21/18 | Read | Down Syndrome | Disability |
| The Ministry of the Disabled | Christianity Today | 4/20/18 | Read | Disability | |
| My daughter has Down Syndrome. Would I "cure" her if I could? | Vox | 8/3/18 | Read | Down Syndrome | |
| I Grew Up with Black Household Help | Christianity Today | 9/25/18 | Read | Privilege and Race | |
| Even Halfhearted Prayer Can Change Things | Ann Voskamp's Blog | 10/4/18 | Read | Faith | |
| Bound Together | InTouch Magazine | 10/22/18 | Read | Faith | |
| Amy Julia Becker reflects on the burden of white privilege | Religion News Service | 10/26/18 | Read | Privilege and Race | |
| Why My Bad Experience of Barbie as a White Woman Does Not Actually Compare to My Friend’s Bad Experience of Barbie as a Black Woman | Auburn Seminary | 12/10/18 | Read | Privilege and Race | |
| What I Learned: How Diversity Benefits Privileged People Like Me | Princeton Alumni Weekly | 3/6/19 | Read | Privilege and Race | |
| How Disability Helped Me Understand Privilege | Washington Post | 3/21/19 | Read | Privilege and Race | Disability |
| I Graduated from Princeton, But My Daughter Taught Me What Matters | Hartford Courant | 3/21/19 | Read | Privilege and Race | Down Syndrome |
| Learning what Happiness Is (And Isn’t) From My Daughter With Down Syndrome | The Christian Century | 3/21/19 | Read | Down Syndrome | Disability |
| How I felt when the doctor told us our baby has Down Syndrome | Mother.ly | 3/21/19 | Read | Down Syndrome | Disability |
| When My Daughter Wanted to Quit Dance Class, We Did This Instead | Scary Mommy | 8/10/19 | Read | Parenting | Down Syndrome |
| America Doesn't Fully Value the Disabled. When Will This End? | Sojourners | 3/20/17 | Read | Disability | |
| Like Mister Rogers before her, Amy Julia Becker is opening doors through our neighborhood’s ‘White Picket Fences’ | Read the Spirit | 12/2/18 | Read | Privilege and Race | |
| Dismantling Privilege: A Review of "White Picket Fences" | Evangelicals for Social Action | 10/4/18 | Read | Privilege and Race | |
| Amy Julia Becker - White Picket Fences Feature Review | Englewood Book Review | 10/11/18 | Read | Privilege and Race | |
| How To Participate in Healing | Q Ideas | 4/24/19 | Read | Privilege and Race | Faith |
| Book review: In 'A Good and Perfect Gift,' Amy Julia Becker writes about parenting a child with Down syndrome | The Oregonian | 9/23/11 | Read | Privilege and Race | |
| Loving People with Disabilities: An interview with Amy Julia Becker | Jonathan Merritt | 6/3/11 | Read | Disability | Down Syndrome |
| Ordinary Grace: PW Talks with Amy Julia Becker | Anne Byle | 12/2/14 | Read | Faith | |
| Enough to Share in the Land of Plenty | Christianity Today | 6/9/20 | Read | Privilege and Race | Faith |
| Is God anti-racist? | Breaking Ground | 9/15/2020 | Read | Privilege and Race | |
| My Daughter with Down Syndrome Helped Me Understand Racism | Anabaptist Disabilities Network | 9/25/2020 | Read | Down Syndrome | Privilege and Race |
| Five Things I Wish I Had Known When My Daughter Was Born With Down Syndrome | Chai Mommas | 03/21/2013 | Read | Down Syndrome | Disability |
| My child with Down syndrome is not a political statement — and neither is Amy Coney Barrett’s | Religion News Service | 10/26/2020 | Read | Down Syndrome | Disability |
| Wrestling with Sovereignty in a Kairos Year | Breaking Ground | 11/3/2020 | Read | Faith | |
| A white woman’s response to the ‘Prayer of a Weary Black Woman’ | Religion News Service | 4/16/2021 | Read | Privilege and Race | Faith |
| Becoming Like Trees | Science for the Church | 4/13/2021 | Read | Faith | |
| Independence Day Calls Us to the Holy Work of Repair | Christianity Today | 6/30/2021 | Read | Privilege and Race | Faith |
| The Hidden Impact of Abled Privilege in the Church | Faithward | 7/16/2021 | Read | Disability | Faith |
| When Merit Drives Out Grace | Plough | 11/30/2021 | Read | Disability | Down Syndrome |
| I’m Thankful Every Day for the Decision I Made After My Prenatal Tests | New York Times | 2/1/2022 | Read | Down Syndrome | Disability |
| How Disability Changed What Easter Means to My Family | TIME | 4/16/2022 | Read | Faith | Disability |
| When the Love Goes Deeper Than the Wound | Ann Voskamp | 7/15/2022 | Read | Healing | Faith |
| I’m a much better parent of tweens than I was of toddlers | Mother.ly | 9/19/2022 | Read | Parenting | Teenagers |
| Where Are All the Children's Books Featuring Kids With Down Syndrome? | TIME | 10/5/2022 | Read | Down Syndrome | Disability |
| The Sometimes-Painful But Always-Beautiful Gift of Raising a Teen With Down Syndrome | Institute for Family Studies | 10/19/2022 | Read | Down syndrome | Parenting |
| My daughter has Down syndrome, and her siblings are better for it | Mother.ly | 10/27/2022 | Read | Down syndrome | Disability |
| To Be Made Well: Why modern health obscures what it means to be human. | Comment Magazine | 11/10/2022 | Read | Healing | Faith |
| From Holistic Health to Holistic Gospel | Christianity Today | 11/21/2022 | Read | Healing | Disability |
| And You Will Be Blessed | Hope Heals | 1/12/2023 | Read | Disability | Faith |
| Hillsong was extraordinary. That’s the problem. | Religion News Service | 6/2/2023 | Read | Faith | |
| Doctors Don't Know How to Talk About Down Syndrome | TIME | 9/11/2023 | Read | Down Syndrome | Disability |
| Why do I still go to church? It's a good question. | Religion News Service | 9/18/2023 | Read | Faith | Family |
| Why kids need to learn the dignity of risk | Motherly | 10/24/2023 | Read | Down Syndrome | Parenting |
| The future I imagine for my daughter | Cognoscenti | 10/26/2023 | Read | Down Syndrome | Parenting |
| Worshiping at the church of Taylor Swift | The Christian Century | 11/21/2023 | Read | Faith | Parenting |
| God Teaches Me Through My Daughter with Down Syndrome | Christianity Today | 11/29/2023 | Read | Disability | Faith |
| Why our family still makes time for church on Sundays | Cognoscenti | 2/23/2024 | Read | Faith | Parenting |
| The Blurring Is Part of the Beauty | Comment Magazine | 3/7/2024 | Read | Disability | Faith |
| We can build a culture of belonging — one that includes people with disabilities | Cognoscenti | 9/4/2024 | Read | Disability | Down syndrome |
| You will need to stay for 15 minutes to see the art | Religion News Service | 12/10/2024 | Read | Faith | Disability |
