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14 Books to Give This Holiday Season
December 12, 2016
Are you looking for books to give to friends and family? Here’s a list of old and new titles worth considering (and of course I

What I Learned When I Tried to Stop Drinking So Much Wine (or, Advent Reflections on Peace and Overcoming Anxiety)
December 9, 2016
In The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg describes the way habits change. You don’t really break a habit, according to Duhigg. You just replace it

Advent Reflections: How Love Transforms Us
November 30, 2016
How Love Transforms Us Love. Peace. Hope. Joy. We will see these words a lot in the next four weeks—in scrawling fonts, in red green,

Thought on the Election of Donald Trump: Trust Your Love Instead of Your Fear
November 30, 2016
“Trust your love instead of your fear.” I first said those words in a conversation with a woman who had received a prenatal diagnosis of
If There Was a “Cure” For Down Syndrome – Podcast Wisconsin Public Radio
August 8, 2016
In August 2016 I wrote an article for Vox titled My daughter has Down Syndrome. Would I “cure” her if I could? I was then
