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Read more about the article False Message: Disability is a tragedy to be alleviated.

False Message: Disability is a tragedy to be alleviated.

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:January 19, 2023
  • Post category:Disability
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When it comes to disability, we receive many erroneous and incomplete messages from the media and popular culture. Here’s the second of four false messages we receive about disability. FALSE…

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Read more about the article How Can We Respond to All the Injustice and Suffering?
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How Can We Respond to All the Injustice and Suffering?

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:May 30, 2022
  • Post category:Current Events/Healing/Privilege and Race
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Recent news has been filled with brutality and evil. War in Ukraine. Shooting upon shooting upon shooting. And a report by the Southern Baptist Convention that details abuse upon abuse…

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Read more about the article Englewood Review of Books Podcast: Disability and Limitations

Englewood Review of Books Podcast: Disability and Limitations

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:June 9, 2021
  • Post category:Disability/Down Syndrome
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"Limitations are so often what lead to love because if we can freely offer ourselves as both gifted and limited people, and receive other people in that same light, then…

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Read more about the article S4 E3 | How Brokenness Brings Healing with Katherine Wolf

S4 E3 | How Brokenness Brings Healing with Katherine Wolf

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:February 2, 2021
  • Post category:Disability/Faith/Podcast
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Can God truly heal, redeem, and transform brokenness? Katherine Wolf, coauthor of Suffer Strong and co-founder of Hope Heals, talks with Amy Julia about the reality of disability and pain,…

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Read more about the article S4 E2 |  Where Is God When the Pain Won’t Stop? with Liuan Huska

S4 E2 | Where Is God When the Pain Won’t Stop? with Liuan Huska

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:January 26, 2021
  • Post category:Disability/Faith/Podcast
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Liuan Huska, author of Hurting Yet Whole, talks with Amy Julia about chronic pain and illness, experiencing wholeness while living in suffering, and the relationship between community and healing for…

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Read more about the article Inviting God Into My Constraints

Inviting God Into My Constraints

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:November 12, 2020
  • Post category:Current Events/Disability/Faith
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This is a season of constraints. Remote learning at home. Social distancing. Celebrating holidays during a pandemic. Navigating a contentious election. This week, our kids were home for three days…

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Read more about the article S3 E14 | The Astonishing Hope of a Mortal Life with J. Todd Billings

S3 E14 | The Astonishing Hope of a Mortal Life with J. Todd Billings

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:October 6, 2020
  • Post category:Faith/Podcast/Privilege and Race
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Mortality is often connected to fear, so how does embracing a mortal life provide hope to individuals and communities? Professor Todd Billings, author of “The End of the Christian Life:…

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Read more about the article Faith Is Trusting in the End of the Story

Faith Is Trusting in the End of the Story

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:September 23, 2020
  • Post category:Faith
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How do we have faith that a good ending is coming? I know lots of people in pain right now. Some are in physical pain—my friend whose husband needs back…

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Read more about the article Choosing to Be Present in Suffering

Choosing to Be Present in Suffering

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:May 27, 2020
  • Post category:Current Events/Faith/Privilege and Race
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For people like me—for people who are white and live in affluence and stability—stories like that of George Floyd are easy to ignore. In the past, I have told myself…

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Read more about the article COVID-19, Holy Week, and Preparing for Suffering with Love {Ep 104}

COVID-19, Holy Week, and Preparing for Suffering with Love {Ep 104}

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:April 7, 2020
  • Post category:Current Events/Faith/Podcast
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At dinner a few nights ago, we asked our kids if they have any questions for God during this time of COVID-19 and suffering. They all nodded. “Why would God…

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