If you are new to my blog, welcome! I blog about family, faith, disability, privilege, culture and the intersection of all of these realities. I tend to use events and stories from my life and the lives of my friends, family and neighbors as a way to begin conversations about what really matters. I hope […]
Reflections on Suffering… and Love
Last week, I spoke with a group of women about the age-old question of how a good God could allow acts of senseless terror and undeserved suffering in this world. In our case, we were thinking about personal tragedies that end in death–cancer, premature birth, degenerative illness. And yet these same thoughts extend outwards to […]
Guest Sermon: Salem Covenant Church
The 4 Things John 5 teaches us about healing, which is to say, about God “Biblically speaking, health isn’t the absence of illness. Health isn’t the absence of anything. It is the presence of God.” I recently had the chance to reflect on that thought and the nature of Jesus as one who heals in […]
Vacation Recipe: Gazpacho
I am not a chef. I do not make complicated dishes. I repeat tried and true recipes to the point that guests will say things like, “Oh good! I really like this one.” I have made a point of never learning how to grill so that at least one area of food preparation in the […]
Normie – A Down Syndrome Coming of Age Film
I experienced such deep joy at the Normie screening at the Five Senses Festival. Not only did I get to sit outside under the stars in our lovely little town and watch a beautiful, poignant, funny, moving film about what it means to be a human wrestling with loneliness, belong, love, and limitations, but I got […]
Guest Podcast: White Picket Fences at Mockingbird Conference 2019
One of the great joys of being invited to speak from White Picket Fences about the power of love to heal social divisions is getting to talk with people afterwards and hear their questions, their thoughts, and their personal experiences. This spring, David Zahl invited me to speak at the Mockingbird Conference in New York […]
