Reimagining the Good Life. Disability. Faith. Culture.
Reimagining the Good Life. Disability. Faith. Culture. After months and months of conversation, that’s where we’ve landed as a concise way to invite people to explore the work I do.…
The Holdovers Is All About Grace
Okay, The Holdovers was just nominated for Best Picture by the Oscars. I want to submit that it is a deeply Christian film about disruptive grace that I think is…
When You Post About Barbie on Social Media
A few weeks ago, I wrote about “Barbie” (the movie) and disability. As Amber, my social media coordinator says, “the algorithm decided to show your post to a lot of…
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Forgetting our Humanity
“‘The propagandist’s purpose,’ Aldous Huxley observed, ‘is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.’” This quotation came from an essay in the…
What’s Wrong With America Right Now?
What’s wrong with America right now? Everywhere I go, I encounter this question. Pop culture’s biggest current hit, Barbie, has one answer: patriarchy. Tim Urban’s recent book, What’s Our Problem?,…
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What Does It Mean to Say “Life Is a Gift”?
When I was lying in the hospital bed a few hours after Penny was born and diagnosed with Down syndrome, a nurse told me, “I had a special child too.”…
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Protecting Our Children
How can we change a culture of violence and horror and meaninglessness into a culture of freedom and protection and purpose? How are we protecting our children? I wrote yesterday…
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Imagining a World Without School Shootings
Three nine-year-old children were murdered in their classroom on Monday morning. Three nine-year-old children. Their beautiful faces captured our imagination through tragedy. Theirs are one more in a litany of…
Asbury Revival: Streams of Living Water
The love of God just broke through the distraction, injustice, anxiety, and shame of our age at Asbury University in Wilmore, Kentucky. The Asbury Revival It’s being called “the Asbury…
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Why I Am Neither Conservative Nor Progressive
Conservatism in one sphere can lead to progressivism in another. To be more specific, theological conservatism can lead to social and political progressivism. Last week, Curtis Chang and David French…
