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Author: Amy Julia Becker

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Read more about the article Truths From “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever”

Truths From “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever”

  • Post published:December 10, 2024
  • Post category:Faith
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  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker

We went to see The Best Christmas Pageant Ever as a family a couple of weeks ago. I’m still an even bigger fan of the 1980s, made-for-tv, low-budget, low-quality, 48-minute version,…

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Read more about the article Step by Step by Step | Increasing Independence

Step by Step by Step | Increasing Independence

  • Post published:December 9, 2024
  • Post category:Disability/Down Syndrome
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Step by step by step. For our daughter Penny, who has Down syndrome, the path toward adulthood and increasing independence involves many more deliberate and supported steps than it will…

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Read more about the article Let’s have this conversation together.

Let’s have this conversation together.

  • Post published:December 6, 2024
  • Post category:Faith/Privilege and Race
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These days, my writing and speaking are drawn to interdependence—the beauty of life together, of reciprocal relationships of love and care. Often, these relationships of mutuality (or, as Rosemarie Garland-Thomson called them, complementarity1) don’t just…

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Read more about the article The New Testament in Color

The New Testament in Color

  • Post published:December 3, 2024
  • Post category:Faith/Podcast
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Apple YouTube Spotify More! How do we attend to diverse voices in our churches and society without silencing or patronizing each other? Author and professor Esau McCaulley, PhD, joins Amy…

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Read more about the article November Favorites {2024}

November Favorites {2024}

  • Post published:November 30, 2024
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Recent favorites—a podcast and two essays—that I enjoyed in November 2024: 1. The Antidote To Not-Enoughness | Robin Wall Kimmerer. I could listen to snippets of this conversation every day just…

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Read more about the article When Is It Time to Speak Up?

When Is It Time to Speak Up?

  • Post published:November 27, 2024
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After our most recent national election, I started wondering when/whether/how I should respond publicly to politics here in this newsletter or on social media. You might be thinking about this same…

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Read more about the article Disability’s Beautiful Complication of Human Flourishing

Disability’s Beautiful Complication of Human Flourishing

  • Post published:November 23, 2024
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I’ve written a lot from the perspective of a white, affluent, educated, able-bodied, married woman about the ways in which my demographic group has rates of anxiety and depression. Similarly,…

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Read more about the article Culture’s Good-Life Mirage

Culture’s Good-Life Mirage

  • Post published:November 23, 2024
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How do we decide who has a life worth living? I thought about this question as I listened to bioethicist Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, PhD, tell me about a group of friends.…

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Read more about the article A Life Worth Living? Reimagining Life, Choice, and Disability

A Life Worth Living? Reimagining Life, Choice, and Disability

  • Post published:November 19, 2024
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Apple YouTube Spotify More! How do we decide who has a life worth living? Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, PhD, author and professor emerita of English and bioethics at Emory University, joins Amy…

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Read more about the article One Way Churches Can Welcome People With Disabilities

One Way Churches Can Welcome People With Disabilities

  • Post published:November 18, 2024
  • Post category:Disability/Down Syndrome/Faith
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Want to make your church more welcoming? Invite individuals with disabilities to lead in reading or prayer. MORE WITH AMY JULIA: FREE RESOURCE: 10 Way to Move Toward a Good…

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