disability
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.
The sin of ableism
Erin Raffety’s ethnographic study calls churches to repentance.
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.
by Aaron Klink
A landscape scarred by the trauma of eugenics
Elizabeth Catte traces the haunting history of forced sterilizations in Central Virginia.
by Chris Hammer
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.
by Samuel Wells
Seeing disability through a lens of wonder
Brian Brock’s book is both academic and deeply personal.
by Aaron Klink
When liturgy embraces difference
Rebecca Spurrier’s study of a “disabled church” and its lessons for all Christians
Take & read: New Testament
Recent books that are shaping discussions in New Testament studies
Selected by Joshua Jipp
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.
Gifted
I recently watched my granddaughter and other teens with Down syndrome perform Shakespeare—with emotion, wit and passion.
Roommates and friends: A seminary does disability ministry
Western Seminary students had both needs and assets. So did the wider community's adults with disabilities.