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Why Down Syndrome Alone Isn’t Enough
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Thanks to CM reader Johanna for writing this: “Can we take Down Syndrome off the list of socially acceptable reasons to terminate a pregnancy? …Many people are misled into thinking that a diagnosis of Down Syndrome is a death sentence for the child or the family. This is simply not the case. My son, who…
Living in the Now While Preparing for Year’s End
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Chattering Mind
Here’s a motherly tip, unaffiliated with any particular religious wisdom tradition: Do one small thing today that will prepare you for cooler weather and the holidays at year’s end. Bring your sweaters out of storage, choose dates for your own year-end party with friends, buy three presents and tuck them aside, contemplate your holiday card…
‘Evolution is Happening Through Us, Not to Us’
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Chattering Mind
“WE are the saviors. We are the help. We are the hands and ears and eyes of heaven and earth. Evolution is happening through us, not to us. We are like the leaves on the maple tree outside my window. Some of us are green. Some have changed to yellow, and some have evolved to…
Reaching Beyond Religious Dogma
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I am grateful to CM reader Pacific231 for taking the time to write this: “I am hardly the most appropriate person to stick up for Christianity. But the exceptional author and scholar Marcus Borg notes that when atheists set out to debunk ‘God,’ they are debunking the ‘supernatural theism’ view of God, the view that…
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