Ellen Painter Dollar
Ellen Painter Dollar is the author of No Easy Choice: A Story of Disability, Parenthood, and Faith in an Age of Advanced Reproduction (Westminster John Knox, 2012). Her articles, blog posts, book chapters, and books have been published by the Christian Century, GeneWatch Magazine, the New York Times‘s Motherlode blog, OnFaith,Brain, Child Magazine, the Episcopal Cafe, Christianity Today, the Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) Foundation, Virtual Mentor (the American Medical Association’s online journal of ethics), and more. She blogs about faith, family, disability, and ethics at Patheos.
All Blog Posts by Ellen Painter Dollar
- Writers Reflect on Well-Known Hymns: Is Your Favorite On This List? - July 14, 2016
- God in My Gut - May 3, 2016
- A Mother's Call to Care About Other People's Children - March 16, 2016
- Compline for the Weary Parent - March 9, 2016
- Marriage - November 4, 2015
- Big Gifts of a Small Life: Meeting God in Sticky Floors, Carpools & the Needy People I Call My Own - August 15, 2015
- Who Are "the Least of These"? - July 27, 2015
- Finding God in Clutter & Strawberries, Long Walks & Big Rocks - July 21, 2015
- Why I'm Still a Christian - June 15, 2015
- A Church for Misfits - May 5, 2015
- What It Means to Belong to a Church - April 28, 2015
- Why We Need the Resurrection - March 30, 2015
- Why "What Would Jesus Do?" Isn't Exactly the Right Question - March 17, 2015
- One of My "Cloud of Witnesses" - March 3, 2015
- Looking for God in (Another) Long Winter - February 23, 2015
- Believing with Our Bodies - February 22, 2015
- Why Even the Smallest Good Work is Worth Doing - February 9, 2015
- On Surviving January: Lessons from Denmark, Japan, and Jesus - January 19, 2015
- Little Celebrations on Regular Days - January 5, 2015
- Is There a Right Way to Celebrate Christmas? - December 22, 2014
- All Good Things (& Christmas Trees) Must Come to an End - December 8, 2014
- Am I Doing Advent Wrong? - December 1, 2014
- The Theology of "Interstellar" - November 25, 2014
- Our Place in the Sun - November 17, 2014
- Revelation on an Ordinary Evening - November 10, 2014
- I am One of the Blessed - November 3, 2014
- When Bedtime Stories are Bittersweet - October 27, 2014
- A Christian Response to Brittany Maynard's Decision to Die - October 20, 2014
- On Sin, or Why Our Best Traits Are Also Our Worst - October 6, 2014
- Gladness and Singleness of Heart - September 29, 2014
- It Takes More than Ice Water to Change the World - September 22, 2014
- Don't Sweat the Big Stuff? - September 16, 2014
- How Do We Respond to What's Happening in Iraq? - August 11, 2014
- Episcopalian Rules (Also, Episcopalians Rule) - August 4, 2014
- God is "Dog" Spelled Backwards - July 21, 2014
- Our Leaky Hearts - July 14, 2014
- Independence Day Through a Gospel Lens - July 7, 2014
- Kids Grow Up, and We Let Them - June 30, 2014
- A God Who Wants to Be Noticed - June 24, 2014
- Why We Pray & Study the Bible Together - June 16, 2014
- Why I Don't Pray or Study the Bible (Much) - June 9, 2014
- On Norman Rockwell and Jesus - June 2, 2014
- When Do Strawberries Lead to Evangelism? - May 26, 2014
- Now We Are God's People - May 19, 2014
- Serving God by Doing Laundry and Rocking Babies - May 12, 2014
- 20 Minutes on Facebook - May 5, 2014
- For the Love of God - April 28, 2014
- Some Recommended Reading - April 7, 2014
- When We Don't Like God's Seating Chart - March 31, 2014
- Why We Pray - March 24, 2014
- Why I (Sort of) Believe in Miracles - March 17, 2014
- Can You Be a Christian Without Going to Church? - March 3, 2014
- Looking for God in the Ice - February 24, 2014
- A Truly Healthy Diet with God at Its Center - February 17, 2014
- God Does Not Make Me Happy - February 10, 2014
- What Are You Seeking When You Come to Church? - February 3, 2014
- Assume the Best (Instead of the Worst) About Other Christians - January 27, 2014
- A Family Tree Entwined with Slavery - January 20, 2014
- What's Your Story? - January 13, 2014
- Modern-Day Exile, and the Promise of Return - January 6, 2014
- Did an Angel Really Visit Mary? And Does It Matter? - December 30, 2013
- God is There, No Matter What - December 23, 2013
- Books to Read and Give: My Favorites of 2013 - December 16, 2013
- What is Your "Deep Gladness"? - November 25, 2013
- God as a Trick of the Light - November 18, 2013
- Redeeming My Grocery Routine - November 11, 2013
- A Few More Shades of Gray - October 28, 2013
- Don't Be Afraid to Pray Honestly. God Can Take It. - October 21, 2013
- Did the Resurrection Really Happen? Does It Matter? - October 14, 2013
- What My Dog Teaches Me About Love - October 7, 2013
- What We Can Learn from Pope Francis about Christian Unity - September 23, 2013
- Did Jesus Get Cranky Too? - September 16, 2013
- Keeping Sabbath: Quaint Tradition or Necessity? - September 9, 2013
- Praying for Syria (& Not Knowing What Else to Do) - September 2, 2013
- Why My Kids Want to Go to Church - August 26, 2013
- Finding God in the Laundry - August 19, 2013
- Can the Episcopal Church Attract Disaffected Young Evangelicals? - August 12, 2013
- Episcopal Worship May Be Rote, But That's What Makes It Essential - August 5, 2013