Episode #74: Amy Julia Becker & Hilary Yancey
Rewrite Radio Podcast by the Calvin Center for Faith & Writing
Episode Summary
What does it mean to tell stories of disability with honesty, love, and care? Both mothers of disabled children, writers Amy Julia Becker and Hilary Yancey, in conversation with Dr. Kevin Timpe, explore how narratives about disability can shape identity, community, and faith. Together, they reflect on parenting, setting boundaries, storytelling, and the redemptive power of bearing witness to one another’s lives.
Amy Julia Becker helps people 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 and the creator of the Reimagining Family Life with Disability workshop. She is a guest opinion writer for national publications and hosts two podcasts: Reimagining the Good Life and Take the Next Step. Becker is a graduate of Princeton University and Princeton Theological Seminary (MDiv). She lives with her husband and their three children in western Connecticut.
Hilary Yancey is a philosopher and writer living in Central Texas, parenting three young kids. She's fascinated by all kinds of questions, but especially those about disability, justice, and God. Her first book, Forgiving God: A Story of Faith (FaithWords, 2018) touched on all these things through the story of her son’s birth and their first year of life together.
Theme music is Modern Attempt by TrackTribe and June 11 by Andrew Starr.
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