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I have a new post at Her.meneutics, the women’s blog of Christianity Today. It begins: We don’t watch much television in our household, but my husband and I both find ourselves wed to the computer. I was looking through a photo album with our daughter last week, and we came across one from her infancy.…

I’ve been writing fairly regularly about our family. Telling cute and inspirational anecdotes about Penny, and then there was the sweet story about Penny as William’s older sister and their beautiful relationship. Not to mention that photo of the two of them doing Ring Around the Rosie in the grass with the bucolic prep school…

I’ve always loved language. I spoke early, and according to my mother, I wouldn’t speak as a child until I could say a word correctly (except for raisins, which I called “sha sha.” Go figure.). I stopped taking Science classes midway through high school so I could double up on English classes. I was an…

When I was pregnant with William, I thought a lot about what it would be like for him to have an older sister with Down syndrome. I thought about how “good it would have been” for me to have had a sibling with Downs. I assumed she would teach him things like patience, or to…

“Has your book been successful?” It’s a question I get asked regularly these days when I tell strangers that I am a writer? And I’m never quite sure how to respond. I could say, “No. It has sold less than 2,000 copies,” and that would be a true (although a bit of a conversation stopping)…

The Easter bunny didn’t visit our house yesterday, but we did eat chocolate eggs and drink some champagne. I have a new post at Christianity Today thinking through my responses to “American Easter” and Christian Easter.” It’s called “Caught Between the Easter Bunny and the Empty Grave,” and it begins: For two weeks now, our…

It’s a day of waiting. A day between the cross and the resurrection. The place many of us live most of the time. My friend Ellen Painter Dollar has written a beautiful and profound essay exploring the reality of Easter hope in the midst of reasons to despair. I recommend it highly, and hope you’ll…

“…faith comes and goes. It rises and falls like the tides of an invisible ocean. If it is presumptuous to think that faith will stay with you forever, it is just as presumptuous to think that unbelief will…” (Flannery O’Connor, The Habit of Being, 452). Whenever people ask me my denominational affiliation, I answer, “I’m…

I was asked to participate in another “Theoblogger challenge” on the website Patheos. The question I needed to answer, in 100 words or less, was “Why I Need the Resurrection.” Here’s my answer: Shower, breakfast, kids to school, myself to work, go running, make dinner, kids to bed, check email, sleep. It’s easy to forget.…

It’s such a mundane decision. Such a paltry “sacrifice.” Don’t drink alcohol, except on Sundays, for the next seven weeks. What on earth does that have to do with Jesus’ death and resurrection? With sin and salvation? With fullness of life and God’s glory? I remember reading the Exodus account of the Golden Calf when…
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