My “summer reading list” is posted at her.meneutics, along with the other contributers to that blog. You can check it out here. In light of the brevity of this post, a quotation to consider: “Among the many desecrations visited upon the creation, the profanation of time ranks near the top, at least among North Americans.…

Ross Douthat of the New York Times comments on the impact sperm and egg donation has on the children conceived by such donations: The Birds and the Bees (via the Fertility Clinic).  I’m going to quote Ellen Painter Dollar’s summary of his article, and I also recommend her comments:  “New York Times columnist Ross Douthat wrote…

Our son William is a sensitive child. Lights, noises, textures. He responds immediately and intensely. So on Saturday morning, when my mother inadvertently opened a picture book that included a light and a buzzing sound, William wailed. And wailed. And wailed. He was still wailing, in my arms, when Penny came into the room. She…

With the move to beliefnet, I decided to start a weekly guest blog post called “Perfectly Human.” This weekly feature is intended to provide a picture of life with a disability in all its possibilities and limitations, gifts and struggles. The title of this feature comes from the Greek word telos, which can be translated as…

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