disability
Was Paul disabled?
Isaac Soon employs a sociocultural model of disability as a lens for reading the apostle’s letters.
Present together
When I was a chaplain intern working with people with disabilities, there was one man I visited every Sunday right after worship.
Reading scripture through the experience of disability
Julia Watts Belser sees in the Torah a God who is in love with the creative possibilities of difference.
Joyful life in Bethlehem
At a L’Arche community, I learned something about working and dreaming for peace.
Eyes of the heart
Mike has been blind since birth. He sees life more vividly than most of us.
Five ways your church might already welcome autistic adults
And some ideas for expanding that welcome
Reckoning with the careless ableism of the church
Amy Kenny’s call for disability justice leads with righteous anger but offers grace.
What does the cross mean for people with disabilities?
David McLachlan proposes a participatory atonement in which God engages creation’s contingency and vulnerability.
A landscape scarred by the trauma of eugenics
Elizabeth Catte traces the haunting history of forced sterilizations in Central Virginia.
Beloved Everybody, an ability-inclusive church that embodies the beloved community
At this church, people with and without disabilities both worship and lead.
The view from Rebekah Taussig’s wheelchair
Sitting Pretty showed me how much I have to learn about ableism.
Thinking better about autism
Grant Macaskill’s reflection on neurodiversity becomes a stimulus to renewal of faith.
Seeing disability through a lens of wonder
Brian Brock’s book is both academic and deeply personal.
When liturgy embraces difference
Rebecca Spurrier’s study of a “disabled church” and its lessons for all Christians
A chaplain, his cerebral palsy, and the philosophy that guides him
Stephen Faller’s series of wise reflections on being alive
Disability and the good life
Theologian Shane Clifton rethinks virtue ethics from his wheelchair.