The Particular Faces of People With Down Syndrome
Penny and her friend Rachel call each other twins sometimes. It came about because they realized that they could open each other’s phones without a password. Apple’s facial recognition software…
Disability Is Central to James McBride’s Latest Novel. Critics Are Missing That Point.
Has anyone else read James McBride’s latest novel, The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store? I really liked it. I’ve read reviews, but I think the critics are missing a central…
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Healing Gets in the Way. And That’s Okay.
I could hardly stand up from my chair. The pain came out of nowhere, it seemed. No injury. No tweaking. No unusual activity. Just shooting pain down the back of…
S7 E1 | The Hope and Hurt of Being Black in America with Esau McCaulley
Apple Google Spotify More! "Whose stories matter?" Esau McCaulley, author of How Far to the Promised Land, joins Amy Julia Becker for an honest, hopeful conversation about:being Black in Americahonoring…
What Penny and I Thought About the Champions Movie
I’m a little late to this game (no pun intended), but we watched Champions as a family recently, and we all want to recommend it. (Spoiler alert!) Woody Harrelson plays…
12 Year Anniversary of A Good and Perfect Gift
Twelve years ago today, A Good and Perfect Gift came out into the world. I still hear from readers regularly, and I am so so honored that our story has…
There Are Good Reasons for Leaving Church. Why Do I Stay?
There are good reasons for leaving church: scandals, abuse, hypocrisy, patriarchal structures, intolerance. Nearly 40 million American adults were once churchgoers but aren't any longer, according to Jim Davis, Michael…
Finding Other Ways to Communicate…
“I call shotgun.” I remember these days, back when I squabbled with my sisters over who got to sit up front. Now we are reenacting the same conversations within my…
Introducing Season 7 of Love Is Stronger Than Fear Podcast
Apple Google Spotify More! Love is stronger than fear. What if we really believed it? What if we lived into love and weren’t overcome by anxiety? What if, even in the…
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The Deeper Truth
There are two true stories that run through my life. The first one, the one I’ve paid attention to a lot over the years, is the one that says, “You…
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