REIMAGINING
THE GOOD LIFE
DISABILITY. FAITH. CULTURE.
Amy Julia Becker
Amy Julia Becker invites people to reimagine the good life through her writing and speaking on disability, faith, and culture. She is the author of To Be Made Well, White Picket Fences, Small Talk, and A Good and Perfect Gift. She is a guest opinion writer for national publications and hosts two podcasts: Take the Next Step and Reimagining the Good Life. Becker is a graduate of Princeton University and Princeton Theological Seminary (MDiv). She is a member of the Disability Ministry Network and the Alliance for Disability Justice and Ethics in Reproductive Genetics. She lives with her husband and their three children in western Connecticut.
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Recent Posts
Learning to See What Cannot Be Seen: Disability, Belovedness, and the Eyes of Love
I just learned a new word: familect. It’s the idea that every family has its own language, its own dialect, the words and phrases that only
What We Need to Know About Disability and Happiness with Misty Coy Snyder
TAKE THE NEXT STEP PODCAST E28 — Do you feel overwhelmed, isolated, or afraid of the future? Misty Coy Snyder knows those feelings well. After
How to Help Kids Build Confidence and Capability: 3 Parenting Lessons
Somewhere along the way, my husband Peter and our daughter Penny, who has Down syndrome, developed an elaborate goodnight ritual involving a complicated handshake followed
