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Last week, I wrote a post for Motherlode called “Is it Harder to Have a Child with Down Syndrome?” Many readers (only some of whom actually have children with Down syndrome) responded with a resounding, “YES!” and many comments implied that once Penny is an adult, we will begin to see her as a burden,…

My son Austen* looks like most nine-year-olds, except perhaps a bit taller, with long legs that carry him swiftly across the ground as he races you to the car or the door of the house or the mailbox. He has curly brown hair, golden brown skin and painfully long, lush eyelashes ringing his deep brown…

I have a new post at her.meneutics: “How Christians Could Save America’s Public Schools.” It begins:  Sixty-eight percent of eighth graders in the U.S. can’t read at grade level. 1.2 million teenagers drop out of school every year. And 44 percent of dropouts under age 24 are jobless. These statistics, from the Broad Foundation for Education, are grim.…

Picture this scene. I’m in a bar with two friends, Jen and Alice. Alice punches Jen in the face. And then Alice turns to me. And I say, “I forgive you.” If I’m Jen, I’m thinking, “Who are you to forgive Alice? I’m the one she punched!” It’s this same scenario that Jesus asks us…
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