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Author: Amy Julia Becker

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Addressing our Mental Health Crisis

  • Post published:April 13, 2023
  • Post category:Faith/Family/Parenting
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  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker

I am kind of obsessed with Dr. Lisa Miller right now. I read her 2015 book, The Spiritual Child, a few months back. And then I raced through her more…

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Becoming a Culture of Belonging

  • Post published:April 12, 2023
  • Post category:Disability
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How do you know if your community is a place of belonging? Professor Erik Carter has articulated ten “dimensions of belonging.” He created this model for churches to assess whether…

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Down Syndrome’s “Exclusive Club”

  • Post published:April 11, 2023
  • Post category:Disability/Down Syndrome/Parenting
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I remember a day 17 years ago when Peter and I had spent hours with Penny at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. We were exhausted. But he needed to attend…

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10 Ways to Practice Resurrection

  • Post published:April 10, 2023
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Yesterday we stood in church and sang Alleluia, and afterwards we gathered with friends and feasted and drank champagne and rejoiced with this day of remembering that the way of…

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Easter| Love Is Life

  • Post published:April 9, 2023
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Love is the strongest power. Love is the core of the universe. Love is the only unending, unshakable, permanent truth. Love is life. Love is the narrow path to the…

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Hope on Holy Saturday

  • Post published:April 8, 2023
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There is a space that stretches between despair and joy. A painful moment. Of waiting. Of uncertainty. Of fear and grief and doubt tinged with the smallest glimmer of light.…

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Sitting in the Dark on Good Friday

  • Post published:April 7, 2023
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I would like to skip Good Friday. I would like the cross to not be a part of the story. I would like to ignore darkness and suffering.  I would…

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Jean Vanier and the Way of Blessing

  • Post published:April 6, 2023
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Jean Vanier was the storied founder of L’Arche, a global movement of communities for people with and without intellectual disabilities. Vanier won The Templeton Prize. He authored dozens of beautiful…

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Recording the Small Talk Audiobook

  • Post published:April 5, 2023
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I had so much fun this week recording the audiobook of Small Talk!  Small Talk came out nine years ago, in 2014, and for whatever reason, it never became an…

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S6 E16 | Enchantment in an Anxious Age with Katherine May

  • Post published:April 4, 2023
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In an anxious, rational world, is there a place for enchantment? Katherine May, New York Times bestselling author of Wintering and Enchantment, talks with Amy Julia Becker about awakening wonder,…

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