Belovedness Before Achievement: Rethinking What Makes Us Matter
Penny and I checked out a Special Olympics track team last week. I’m going to write more about that experience—it’s a whole other story—sometime later this spring, but for now…
No one should use the r-word as an insult.
President Trump posted on Truth Social last week in a rant against Minnesota Governor Tim Walz that Walz was “seriously retarded” in light of Minnesota’s welcoming posture toward Somali refugees.…
The Measure of Intelligence
Apple YouTube Spotify More! What freedom could we offer one another as humans if we weren’t so stuck on the "treadmill of achievements and quantified learning"? Pepper Stetler, PhD, is…
What’s Normal? The Anthropology of Disability
Apple YouTube Spotify More! What does it mean to be human? Who counts as a human being and why? Anthropologist Tom Pearson has been asking these questions for a living…
Idolatry of Intellect
I didn't realize I’d gone into the hospital with a set of expectations, but I had. I very much had a set of expectations about who our child would be…
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Why Changing the R-Word Only Matters So Much
Essay Quick Link: New Proposal In Congress Would Remove ‘Mentally Retarded’ From Federal Law I grew up hearing the R-word from other people. “I’m so ___” or “You’re such a…
Main Characters With Intellectual Disabilities in Chapter Books
Are there any chapter books with a main character who has Down syndrome or other intellectual disabilities? I’m so grateful for books like RJ Palacio’s Wonder, which is a fantastic…
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Without People with Disabilities, We Are Missing Out
If your church doesn’t have any participating members with intellectual disabilities, you are missing out on knowing the fullness of who God is. I’ve been reading Brian Brock’s wonderful book,…
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…
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…
