gender selection

No Easy Choice: A Review and a Q&A

May 7, 2012 By Ellen Painter Dollar 3 Comments

Fellow Patheos blogger has written a lovely review of my book, No Easy Choice: A Story of Disability, Parenthood, and Faith in an Age of Advanced Reproduction over at Her.meneutics, the women’s blog for Christianity Today. In conjunction with review, Amy Julia published a Q&A with me on her blog today. She asks really great [...]

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Why I Wrote a Wishy-Washy Book

March 8, 2012 By Ellen Painter Dollar 5 Comments

In re-reading Kathleen Norris’s sort-of-memoir Acedia and Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer’s Life, I came across this declaration: I am telling stories, not writing prescriptions. And I thought, Yes! Yes. Me too. In writing about her experience with acedia (a state of spiritual malaise and indifference), Norris might end up helping readers recognize [...]

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Christians: Let’s Get Real About Suffering

February 1, 2012 By Ellen Painter Dollar 8 Comments

My post last week on why prenatal screening for disabilities is motivated by different impulses than prenatal screening for gender led to a lot of heated but helpful discussion. One commenter was troubled by my empathy for parents who, motivated by a desire to spare their child great suffering, terminate a pregnancy after learning that [...]