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Read more about the article Penny’s PATH Process: Planning for Life After High School

Penny’s PATH Process: Planning for Life After High School

  • Post published:January 4, 2022
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Once a year, a group of people from Penny’s school, family, and community gather together with her to talk about her hopes and dreams for the future through a process…

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Read more about the article S5 E8 | What Disability Teaches Us About Health and Wholeness with Dr. Brian Brock

S5 E8 | What Disability Teaches Us About Health and Wholeness with Dr. Brian Brock

  • Post published:December 14, 2021
  • Post category:Disability/Down Syndrome/Healing/Podcast
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What does it mean to be healthy? Can people with disabilities be healthier than typical people? What does it mean to be healed by God? Dr. Brian Brock, author of…

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Read more about the article Loves Looks to Move Towards One Another

Loves Looks to Move Towards One Another

  • Post published:December 7, 2021
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My friend’s son was whistling in class. The other kids were annoyed. Another friend’s daughter drools a lot and other kids think it’s “gross.” Some kids smell bad. Others make…

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Read more about the article Meritocracy Is the Antithesis to Love | Plough Essay

Meritocracy Is the Antithesis to Love | Plough Essay

  • Post published:December 2, 2021
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Meritocracy is the antithesis to love.  I first wrote those words almost two years ago, when we were traveling cross-country and we were taking regular hikes as a family. On…

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Read more about the article Talking About Pain: Helpful or Harmful?

Talking About Pain: Helpful or Harmful?

  • Post published:November 17, 2021
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Last week, I read a series of seven articles in the NYT that considered chronic pain from a variety of different angles. As someone who has been working on a…

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Read more about the article FINAL Final Draft of To Be Made Well

FINAL Final Draft of To Be Made Well

  • Post published:November 9, 2021
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  My current stack of books: When the Body Says No Life of the Beloved God's Hotel No Cure for Being Human Becoming Friends of Time The Very Good Gospel…

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Read more about the article God Didn’t Create Any Ugly Humans
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God Didn’t Create Any Ugly Humans

  • Post published:November 5, 2021
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A prominent pastor and theologian spoke at length earlier this week about why God might make some people unattractive. He lumped together “ugliness” with disfigurement and disability and then went…

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Read more about the article Down Syndrome Awareness Month: Awareness Would Be Enough

Down Syndrome Awareness Month: Awareness Would Be Enough

  • Post published:October 26, 2021
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I used to think that “awareness” was too small a word for what we need in order to change the perceptions and reality for people with Down syndrome like our…

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Read more about the article A Few of My Favorite Things: Week 10 | Three New Books

A Few of My Favorite Things: Week 10 | Three New Books

  • Post published:October 22, 2021
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Ending the day without anxiety. Receiving spiritual truth and practical wisdom from another mother of a child with a disability. And entering into a story about the extravagant tenderness of…

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Read more about the article Down Syndrome Awareness Month: The Apple Doesn’t Fall From the Tree

Down Syndrome Awareness Month: The Apple Doesn’t Fall From the Tree

  • Post published:October 21, 2021
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“The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.” That’s what my sister wrote to me after I showed her an email from Penny. Penny, unprompted, had sent me a Google…

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