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When You Post About Barbie on Social Media

  • Post published:August 23, 2023
  • Post category:Current Events/Disability/Down Syndrome
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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

  • Post published:August 17, 2023
  • Post category:Current Events/Healing
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“‘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…

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What’s Wrong With America Right Now?

  • Post published:August 10, 2023
  • Post category:Current Events/Privilege and Race
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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”?

  • Post published:May 31, 2023
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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

  • Post published:April 1, 2023
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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

  • Post published:March 31, 2023
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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…

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Asbury Revival: Streams of Living Water

  • Post published:February 27, 2023
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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

  • Post published:December 6, 2022
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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…

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People to Follow Across the Political Divides

  • Post published:November 9, 2022
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As we reach the other side of the 2022 elections—our country as polarized as ever—I want to offer some suggestions for people to follow who offer a different way through…

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Acknowledging the Harm Inherent Within the Abortion Debates

  • Post published:July 20, 2022
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When the Supreme Court decided to push regulations around abortion back to the states, it set off a cascade of opinions and responses. Many pro-life activists celebrated while pro-choice folks…

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The image is a book cover with the title "From Exclusion to Belonging" by Amy Julia Becker. The cover features a group of four smiling teenagers, including a young woman with Down syndrome in the center. They are dressed in casual clothing and appear to be in an outdoor setting with a blurred background of greenery. The design includes a torn paper effect separating the title text from the image. The title text is in a clean, modern font with "FROM EXCLUSION" at the top and "TO BELONGING" at the bottom, with the author's name displayed below.

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