A Disney Movie, My Daughter, and How the Holy Spirit Helped Me Find My Voice
Editor’s note: For the past nine months, while the regular blog editor has been on maternity leave, CBE intern Mayzie Mayfield has been at the
October 1, 2025
Topic: Disability and Health
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A Body Designed to Kill
Fifty percent. That was the fateful number. I had just calculated the risk of a pregnancy going bad for me. The risks included things like
December 9, 2024
Caregiving and Gender Equity in Interabled Relationships
I jokingly say to my husband that he needs to be more careful when he helps draw up the medicine for my weekly IV treatments,
March 3, 2023
Persevering with the Woman Who Bled for Twelve Years
As I type, my underlying prayer is, “Holy Spirit who empowered Jesus so that even the hem of his garment could heal the bleeding woman,
January 18, 2023
Proving My Virginity: Deuteronomy, Pap Smears, and the Hymen Myth
Editor’s Note: This is one of the Top 15 2020 CBE Writing Contest winners. Enjoy! When I first received a letter offering me a routine
September 22, 2020
Jesus Sees You: Endometriosis, the Bleeding Woman, and Me
I was a teenager when I first heard my male pastor preach about the woman “subject to bleeding,” as she is often called by various
April 1, 2020