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The week before Thanksgiving, I put a colorful turkey sticker in Robert’s work folder and wrote this message to his parents: “I am so thankful for Robert.” My words are genuine, but they are not what I expected to feel about this precious fourth grader.  I’ve been a fourth grade teacher for 23 years, and…

I’m sometimes skeptical of news stories about individuals with Down syndrome. I wonder whether the individuals are really being celebrated for who they are or if telling a heart-warming story about the kid with the disability who overcomes the odds is really just a way of making the rest of us feel good without actually…

We’ve always tried to talk about Down syndrome as a fact of life in our family. We wanted to make sure it wasn’t a taboo subject so that our kids never felt as though they needed to feel ashamed or scared or that they weren’t allowed to ask questions about it. It comes up most…

We know much more about the formation of the New Testament than the Old. These 27 books–a combination of Gospels, history, letters, sermons, and an apocalypse–were written between 50 and 100 AD, or thereabouts. The earliest of the New Testament books were Paul’s letters. These were written in the 50’s and 60’s. Paul’s letters were…
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