Love Is Patient: In Memory of Jean Vanier
Jean Vanier and Abuse: Is His Work Discredited?  “Love is patient.” This simple statement has been on my heart and mind this past week after I learned of the death…
Jean Vanier and Abuse: Is His Work Discredited?  “Love is patient.” This simple statement has been on my heart and mind this past week after I learned of the death…
Years ago, I wanted to pray for some friends of ours, a married couple who had a great interest in spirituality but who hadn’t landed in any one particular faith.…
“I’m just not interested in the Bible,” Penny said a few weeks ago. “I will never understand how evolution and creation can both be true,” William has told me more…
One of the reasons we travel to cities as a family is simply for the experiences our kids have walking through the streets of highly populated areas. They’ve grown up…
A few weeks ago, I was giving a series of talks about the love of God to a group of women from The Church of the Good Samaritan, Paoli at…
What keeps us from living the most meaningful life we could live? From experiencing God's love? What keeps us from healing our social divisions? What keeps us from joy and…
I visited the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, PA with William and Marilee last week. The whole museum is terrific (yes, especially for kids but I really enjoyed it too), with…
I would never have written my most recent book, White Picket Fences: Turning Towards Love in a World Divided by Privilege, had I not given birth to a daughter with…
I wrote a piece for the Hartford Courant connecting the recent college admission cheating scandal, education, expectations, privilege, disability, and Down syndrome in honor of World Down Syndrome Day, March…
Today we celebrate World Down Syndrome Day and the lives of millions of people with Down syndrome around the globe. (It’s March 21, 3/21, and Down syndrome is the genetic…