"Perfectly Human" is a series of guest posts that runs every Wednesday afternoon. Today Mica May, mother to Jackson, a two-year old with Down syndrome, shares her reflections from Down Syndrome Awareness Day. Mica has written for Perfectly Human before (See "My Jackson"), and ...

Update (posted April 6): Caryn and Casey have won copies of Half the Church. Thanks to all who participated!

Let's begin with a question: what has been your experience of women in the church? Comment below and enter to receive a free copy of Half the Church.

Carolyn Custis James' ...

Every so often I happen upon a blog of someone who epitomizes stay-at-home-mom. She bakes fresh bread. She thinks of creative art projects with her children. She decorates her home, with her children, for every holiday. She definitely has a garden with both flowers and vegetables. ...

At just about the time I was moving my blog to beliefnet, I received an email from Deborah Arca, editor of the mainline Christian portal at patheos. She invited me to participate in a "theoblogger challenge" by writing an answer to the question "Who Is God?, in 100 words or ...

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 "perfect" but which also can be defined as, "the ...

For most of my adult Christian life, I've been trying to understand what happened on the cross. I used to give the stock Christian answer: "Jesus died on the cross for my sins." I still think that statement is true, but I've become less and less clear on exactly what it means. ...

I have a new post on her.meneutics, "Should Christians Use Self-Help Programs?" It begins:

We were staying with friends, and I was getting ready for the day in their daughter's bathroom. It was a typical tween-age space: cute stickers and sayings posted to the mirror, hair products ...

A few days ago, William held a stick up to his mouth and pretended to play.

"Are you playing the flute?" I asked.

"No, Mom. The piccolo." Of course.

Of everyone in the family, it's William who loves music. He runs to the front of the sanctuary at church so he can see the musicians. ...

"The often heard lament, ‘I have so little time,' gives the lie to the

delusion that the daily is of little significance."

–Kathleen Norris, The Quotidian Mysteries

These days, I spend a lot of time with my Iphone. When I'm nursing Marilee, I read. I have an app for the New York Times, the Atlantic, Time Magazine, Redeemer Presbyterian Church, Christianity Today, and the ESV Bible. Although I wish I had more time to offer my own thoughts ...

I'm a happily married woman, but I've been thinking about divorce this week.

First, I wrote a piece for her.meneutics about Christian blogger Anne Jackson's divorce: "When Christians Get Divorced." (I'll post an excerpt below.) Then, I happened across an interview on Patheos ...

I recently reread a book by Kathleen Norris, The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy, and Women's Work. Thankfully, she includes a definition of quotidian as an epigraph. It means pertaining to the every day, and my life is consumed by every day activities, especially with ...

I wrote this morning about Kathleen Norris' The Quotidian Mysteries. Part of Norris' point is that creative thoughts often arise in the mundane details of life. While folding laundry, an idea pops into her head for a poem, or she remembers that she wanted to write a friend ...

(First, a quick blog update: I'm sorry to have been MIA this week. Beliefnet was changing our blogging platform and they forgot to include me. It took a few days to figure out, but now I'm back…)

And here's what I had hoped to post on Monday:

March 21, or 3/21. It is snowing ...

"I sense that striving for wholeness is, increasingly, a countercultural goal, as fragmented people make for better consumers…"

–Kathleen Norris, The Quotidian Mysteries