Can People with Disabilities be Happy?

Why should we seek happiness, the cynics wonder, when life is hard and people are stupid and cruel or at…

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Shattered: Praying with PTSD

You’ve read about my experiences praying with PTSD in other posts, such as “The Discipline of Weeping” and “Return to…

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The Discipline of Weeping

I wrote those words over 20 years ago when I began to reflect on the way Christ came to me…

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Patron Saints of Autism

For those of us who ask the help of saints in our daily lives, one of the first questions that…

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When the Wine Runs Out: Marriage in a Special Needs Family

Our family prayer corner is filled with gilded handwritten icons that catch the eye, but today I want to talk…

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Thin Places

The most common reaction to the divine presence throughout history has been terror. Love is a consuming fire. We cannot…

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