"While disheartening, it is not surprising that some would object to photos of a child whose physical features lift the veil from the mortality we all share. For most of history, those with deformities or disabilities have been repulsed and ridiculed, treated alternately as objects of fascination and derision. It’s a natural reaction, of course, but like many of the ways of nature, needs correction by the ways of grace."

Read more: Karen Swallow Prior, Her.meneutics, Christianity Today