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We’ve always tried to talk about Down syndrome as a fact of life in our family. We wanted to make sure it wasn’t a taboo subject so that our kids never felt as though they needed to feel ashamed or scared or that they weren’t allowed to ask questions about it. It comes up most…

We know much more about the formation of the New Testament than the Old. These 27 books–a combination of Gospels, history, letters, sermons, and an apocalypse–were written between 50 and 100 AD, or thereabouts. The earliest of the New Testament books were Paul’s letters. These were written in the 50’s and 60’s. Paul’s letters were…

I have a new opinion piece that was published yesterday in the Hartford Courant: Who Decides ‘Defective?’  about a new process for in vitro fertilization. It begins: Researchers recently announced a new method for in vitro fertilization. The technical term for the process is chromosome aneuploidy screening, and it triples the chances — from 30 percent…

I grew up in a variety of church settings–Episcopalian, Presbyterian, Congregational, non-denominational… We now attend a Vineyard church, and we love the informality of the service, the loving community, the fact that our children can dance in the back of the room where the church meets. I appreciate aspects of all the branches of the…

I remember the moment when I figured out Santa wasn’t real. I was young, maybe six-years old. Sitting on the trundle bed in my room, thinking about the tooth fairy, who was due to come that evening. All at once it struck me: “This is ridiculous. There can’t be a fairy who flies into my…

Every day when I return home from work, as soon as I am through the front door, I can hear Jonathan scampering toward me yelling “DADDY!  Daddy’s home!” I immediately receive a bear hug and a huge smile. Funny thing is that when I return from a quick run to the grocery store, I receive…

I have a new post over at Bloom: Parenting Kids with Disabilities (a site I highly recommend, by the way, if you are a parent of a child with disabilities) called “Would you Like to Have Down Syndrome?”  It reads: Our daughter Penny was born with Down syndrome almost five years ago. After the initial…

Christians divide the Bible into two sections, the Old and New Testaments. (Note: I continue to refer to the Old Testament by its traditional name within the church rather than the more contemporary designation, “The Hebrew Scriptures.” I do this because although the Jewish people consider the Old Testament books Scriptural, they collect them in…

A new friend of mine recently wrote me about miracles. In her words:   I don’t understand God–and by extension, Jesus–as a miracle worker…So, where Jesus does something miraculous (loaves and fishes, curing the sick) I found myself discounting the miracle, almost knee-jerk, and trying to figure out what could be going on in “real…

I’m not very good at saying thank you. Take, for instance, when someone has invited me to speak. To stand up in front of the crowd and say thank you to the host seems unnecessary to me. Perfunctory. Fake. I’d rather indicate my gratitude by sending a note after the fact. But I’ve been convinced…
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