REIMAGINING
THE GOOD LIFE
DISABILITY. FAITH. CULTURE.
Amy Julia Becker
Amy Julia Becker invites people to reimagine the good life through her writing and speaking on disability, faith, and culture. She is the author of To Be Made Well, White Picket Fences, Small Talk, and A Good and Perfect Gift. She is a guest opinion writer for national publications and hosts two podcasts: Take the Next Step and Reimagining the Good Life. Becker is a graduate of Princeton University and Princeton Theological Seminary (MDiv). She is a member of the Disability Ministry Network and the Alliance for Disability Justice and Ethics in Reproductive Genetics. She lives with her husband and their three children in western Connecticut.
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Recent Posts

Raising Capable, Confident Kids: Disability + Parenting • David Thomas, LMSW
TAKE THE NEXT STEP PODCAST E27 — How can my child with a disability learn and grow? What does it look like to cultivate capability

A Good and Perfect Gift Turns 15: How Our Down Syndrome Story Still Offers Hope
Penny and I walked into a local clothing store over the weekend, and a woman stopped us and said, “Wait, are you Amy Julia Becker?

What to Do When Parenting Feels Overwhelming: Take One Next Step and Ask for Help
I’ve taken to calling it my whiteboard of shame. When Penny was a toddler, and we had four therapists coming to the house on a
