disability

Why are people in pain? Why are their illnesses incurable? Neither advocates nor opponents of PAS tend to ask these questions.

A multisensory, embodied approach to worship works well for many people with disabilities—and for everyone else, too.

Kathleen Norris traces her sister’s life with disability, honoring both the challenges of caregiving and the quiet, sustaining presence of love.

Black autistic pastor and disability scholar Lamar Hardwick shows how ideas around race and disability can cost people their lives.

Isaac Soon employs a sociocultural model of disability as a lens for reading the apostle’s letters.

When I was a chaplain intern working with people with disabilities, there was one man I visited every Sunday right after worship.

Julia Watts Belser sees in the Torah a God who is in love with the creative possibilities of difference.

At a L’Arche community, I learned something about working and dreaming for peace.

Mike has been blind since birth. He sees life more vividly than most of us.

Erin Raffety’s ethnographic study calls churches to repentance.

And some ideas for expanding that welcome

Amy Kenny’s call for disability justice leads with righteous anger but offers grace.

David McLachlan proposes a participatory atonement in which God engages creation’s contingency and vulnerability.

Elizabeth Catte traces the haunting history of forced sterilizations in Central Virginia.

At this church, people with and without disabilities both worship and lead.

Sitting Pretty showed me how much I have to learn about ableism.

Grant Macaskill’s reflection on neurodiversity becomes a stimulus to renewal of faith.

Brian Brock’s book is both academic and deeply personal.

Rebecca Spurrier’s study of a “disabled church” and its lessons for all Christians