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Author: Amy Julia Becker

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What Energizes Me? Anxiety or Love?

  • Post published:February 17, 2022
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Anxiety often wakes me up in the morning (not to mention in the middle of the night). My concern over the to-do list and my unspoken fear about what will…

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Flourishing with Down Syndrome

  • Post published:February 16, 2022
  • Post category:Disability/Down Syndrome/Faith
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When I was still pregnant with Penny, I had a sense that God had given me a passage from the Bible for her. It came from Psalm 1: “Blessed is…

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For Those of Us Who Feel Politically Homeless

  • Post published:February 15, 2022
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Jesus wasn’t a Democrat or a Republican. Jesus wasn’t a liberal or a conservative, which is good news for those of us who feel politically homeless. Jesus was a radical…

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Returning to the Light (and the Lenten Devotional)

  • Post published:February 14, 2022
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My husband Peter is one of the few people I know who celebrates the winter solstice. He even found the moment of “minimum declination”—the exact time when we transition from…

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The Shared Delight of Wordle

  • Post published:February 12, 2022
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As a mom, I’ve found that I want one thing I share with each kid that is just for the two of us. With Penny, it’s creating our family photo…

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In Black History Month, 3 Ways to Change the Racial Wealth Gap

  • Post published:February 11, 2022
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A friend of mine called the other day. She had Covid, so she decided to do some genealogical research to while away the hours in quarantine. She soon learned that…

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Heather Avis Endorses To Be Made Well

  • Post published:February 10, 2022
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I am so grateful for the early readers who were willing to endorse To Be Made Well. Thank you, Heather Avis, for taking the time and for your encouraging words!…

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Delta Air Lines and Disability

  • Post published:February 9, 2022
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Peter recently flew home and noticed that Delta Air Line’s opening safety video included an image of a man with Down syndrome sitting in the plane. It was a little…

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S5 E12 | Racism: Can Learning History Bring Healing? with Lisa Sharon Harper

  • Post published:February 8, 2022
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 Learning the history of enslavement and racism illuminates the path to repentance and repair. Lisa Sharon Harper, leading faith and race activist and author of Fortune, looks at the power…

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God Gives Us More Than We Can Handle

  • Post published:February 7, 2022
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In her book Suffer Strong, Katherine Wolf writes, “It seems that God does give us more than we can handle—sometimes much more. And yet He does this so He can…

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