The Best Books About Disability

Last updated on: July 19, 2012 at 10:23 pm By Amy Julia Becker

I was asked to come up with my "Top Five Books About Special Needs" for the July/August issue of Christianity Today Read more

What Summer Camp has to do with Taxes

Last updated on: July 16, 2012 at 5:15 pm By Amy Julia Becker

This simple experience of play and learning and exploring and resting seems to me like a quintessential American summertime, and yet I was reminded recently that my children’s summer is a mark of privilege. Read more

Lies I Used to Believe About Disability

Last updated on: July 11, 2012 at 11:34 am By Amy Julia Becker

When our daughter Penny was diagnosed with Down syndrome shortly after birth, I discovered that I had unwittingly believed two lies. Read more

Worth Reading: on Faith, Disability, and Busyness

Last updated on: July 12, 2012 at 4:57 pm By Amy Julia Becker

Really beautiful and profound reflection on what it means to be the body of Christ through reflection upon the art of Tim Lowly, whose daughter Temma has severe disabilities: The Broken Made Whole by Mark Sprinkle. He writes: There is a sense in which we look at Temma and we want to affirm that she is made in the image of God by denying that the image of God has anything to do with her physical, material body. Indeed, one... Read more

What Does “Preventive” Care Mean? Further Thoughts on Prenatal Testing, Abortion, and Down syndrome

Last updated on: July 12, 2012 at 9:03 pm By Amy Julia Becker

Prenatal testing was developed for the purpose of selective abortion, but has selective abortion been the result? And what should our government have to say about it? Read more

Supreme Court Unexpectedly Upholds Regulatory Elimination of Down Syndrome

Last updated on: July 12, 2012 at 9:06 am By Amy Julia Becker

Is a new type of eugenics the unexpected result of the Affordable Care Act? Read more

Coming out of the Shadows of Autism through Poetry

Last updated on: July 11, 2012 at 10:47 am By Amy Julia Becker

An interview with Virginia Breen, author of I Am In Here, about autism, faith, and a daughter who finds her voice through poetry. Read more

Summer Reading and A Good and Perfect Gift Book Giveaway

Last updated on: July 10, 2012 at 11:31 am By Amy Julia Becker

What books are you reading this summer? (plus a chance to win a free copy of A Good and Perfect Gift) Read more

Seven Things I Learned from Moving

Last updated on: July 9, 2012 at 10:48 am By Amy Julia Becker

Some thoughts on unpacking, loving our stuff, hating our stuff, and being grateful for our children in spite of our children... Read more

Good News for Fetuses with Down syndrome in Massachusetts?

Last updated on: July 3, 2012 at 11:50 am By Amy Julia Becker

As Bonnie Rochman reported for Healthland on Time.com last week: Of the myriad things that can go awry with pregnancy, Down syndrome is perhaps the best known. In the past year, several new tests have become available to detect the condition prenatally, as early as 10 weeks of pregnancy. Whether these tests are cause for celebration or alarm, however, depends upon what decision you’d make if your unborn baby was diagnosed with Down syndrome. Now, Massachusetts has become the most recent state... Read more