Penny’s PATH Process: Planning for Life After High School
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…
S5 E8 | What Disability Teaches Us About Health and Wholeness with Dr. Brian Brock
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…
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…
A Few of My Favorite Things: Week 10 | Three New Books
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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Talking About Disability
I remember this time, back when Penny was really little, when we were at a birthday party together and another mom was there with her child who also had a…
Texas’s Abortion Law and Down Syndrome
"Why would it be a bad thing for five times more people with Down syndrome to be in the world?" asked my 13-year-old son William, whose older sister Penny has…
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…
Is Disability (or Down Syndrome) Abnormal?
Is disability abnormal? After Penny was born, we were told she had a genetic abnormality because she had an extra copy of her 21st chromosome. The doctors implied that “abnormal”…
In the “Woods” of Disability
"It wasn’t as if a doctor would ever say about her extra chromosome, 'It was touch-and-go for a while there, but now we’re out of the woods.' No, the woods—as…
