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Please Don’t Call Anyone Low-Functioning
I’ve been trying to figure out why it bothers me to hear people described as “high functioning” and “low functioning.” The other day, a friend of mine mentioned that a…
S5 E18 | Living as a Person in a Technological World with Andy Crouch
How do we reclaim personhood and relationships in a technological world? Andy Crouch, author of The Life We’re Looking For, talks with me about technology and what it means to…
A Glimpse of Heaven
I did not expect to catch a glimpse of heaven in a TIME magazine article about food waste. But then I started reading about Massimo Bottura, a world-renowned chef who…
Loves Looks to Move Towards One Another
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…
Meritocracy Is the Antithesis to Love | Plough Essay
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…
We Are Not as Divided as We Think We Are
We are not as divided as we think we are. Climate Change Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist and an evangelical Christian, mentioned on a podcast that only 7 percent of…
I Know to Expect Penny To Be Human
I look back on these words I wrote about Penny so many years ago in A Good and Perfect Gift, and I think, Yes. That’s it. I was no longer…
An Accelerated Course in Love
An accelerated course in love—“...every time I recognized the purity of my love for Penny, I was dying to an old part of myself, an old part that thought the…
Blurring the Lines of Disability
I love that at Hope Heals Camp several weeks ago, people with disabilities served as volunteers. And lots of able-bodied people came as campers (who had family members with disabilities).…
Surprised by Our Teenager With Down Syndrome
In the past few weeks, I’ve been surprised by Penny, our 15-year-old daughter who has Down syndrome. I was surprised when she recited the Gettysburg Address in preparation for doing…
