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	<title>Thin Places-Faith, Family and Disability</title>
	
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	<description>With Amy Julia Becker</description>
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		<title>Why Bother to Write About Prenatal Testing?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:18:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Julia Becker</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A continuation of my conversation with George Estreich: George Estreich: In both your book and on...<br/>
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		<title>Why I Write</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:38:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Julia Becker</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/thinplaces/?p=3703</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[On why I write, the authors who mean the most to me, and why stories matter.<br/>
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		<title>Don’t You Care If We Drown?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Julia Becker</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In the midst of a raging storm, "The disciples wanted Jesus to pitch in, to do his part in solving...<br/>
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		<title>Tweets This Week: Disability, Muslim Abortion, Inclusion, and the Only and the Lonely</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2013 12:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Julia Becker</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/thinplaces/?p=3685</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[So my plan going forward is to offer a post every Friday that includes articles I&#8217;ve tweeted...<br/>
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		<title>What Prenatal Testing Has to Do with the Church (and Other Religious Communities)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 17:53:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Julia Becker</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/thinplaces/?p=3690</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA["Even though I was an active member of our local church, it hadn’t crossed my mind to discuss the...<br/>
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		<title>Do Medical Textbooks Intentionally Offer Outdated Descriptions of Down Syndrome? and Other Questions for George Estreich</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 13:31:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Julia Becker</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA["Medicine is part of culture, and so culture, good and bad, is refracted through medicine." George...<br/>
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		<title>“A Doorway to a New Life”: A Conversation with George Estreich About Down Syndrome, Writing, and the Stories that Make a Family</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/thinplaces/2013/06/a-doorway-to-a-new-life-a-conversation-with-george-estreich-about-down-syndrome-writing-and/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/thinplaces/2013/06/a-doorway-to-a-new-life-a-conversation-with-george-estreich-about-down-syndrome-writing-and/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:25:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Julia Becker</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/thinplaces/?p=3674</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Is Down syndrome "bad" or "hard"? George Estreich reflects on writing, family, and life with his...<br/>
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		<title>Worth Reading</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/thinplaces/2013/06/worth-reading-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Julia Becker</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A smattering of articles worth reading<br/>
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		<title>Quoting George Estreich on Family, Down Syndrome, and How we Tell Our Stories</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/thinplaces/2013/06/quoting-george-estreich-on-family-down-syndrome-and-how-we-tell-our-stories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 14:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Julia Becker</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[My favorite passages from George Estreich's The Shape of the Eye, on family, Down syndrome, and how...<br/>
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		<title>Questions about Disabilities, Prenatal Testing, the Church, and More</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/thinplaces/2013/06/questions-about-disabilities-prenatal-testing-the-church-and-more/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 10:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Julia Becker</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[An interview with Jonathan Merritt's blog on Faith and Culture at Religion News Service.<br/>
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