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A few months after our daughter Penny was born with Down syndrome, a friend of mine lamented the fact that Penny’s diagnosis would narrow my field of interest and influence. “I want you to be able to write and talk about more than Down syndrome,” she said. I agreed. I wasn’t particularly interested in becoming…

I have a new post at her.meneutics called, “Yoga, an Exercise in Discernment.” It begins: About 16 million adults in the United States practice yoga — an increase of 85 percent from 2004 to 2008 — and the Los Angeles Times reports that both Christian and Jewish groups are incorporating the Eastern meditation practice into…

On Good Friday, Peter and I went to our church to participate in a 24-hour prayer vigil. We’ve never done something like that before, hired a babysitter on a Friday night so we could go pray with some other people we don’t know. It was after that experience that I realized, prayer is stupid. Well,…

I wrote these lines in August of 2007, when Penny was 20 months old: When Penny was born, among the hundreds of gifts we received was an orchid. And this orchid was like no other orchid we had ever seen. It was beautiful, with dozens of fuchsia blooms. I was intimidated enough by the thought…
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