Amy Julia was a high-achieving, religiously devout Princeton grad who lived with the nagging feeling that there must something more to life than what she had experienced so far. Then her first child was diagnosed with Down syndrome, and Amy Julia began her journey into a version of “the good life” that she never expected.

Amy Julia joins Katherine for a deeply vulnerable conversation about the theological reckoning that took place in her heart and mind when she became a parent to a child with intellectual disabilities. She emerged with a new understanding of God’s love and her own inherent value.

Today, eighteen years later, she's inviting us all to re-imagine what belonging and belovedness really looks like for people with AND without disabilities.

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“Faith means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse.” - Philip Yancey

Scriptures referenced in this episode:

Luke 14:15-24

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