Saturday, July 31, 2004

How would things be different? People with disability

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For the next few blogs, I want to look at how things might be different if the church around the world were more responsive to persons with ...
Thursday, July 29, 2004

How would things be different? The church

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For the next few blogs, I want to look at how things might be different if the church around the world were more responsive to persons with ...
Wednesday, July 28, 2004

Ruminations on typical things

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Our church is putting together a pictorial church directory.  We decided that all of the members of our class for developmentally disabled a...
Tuesday, July 20, 2004

Ruminations part 2

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Yesterday I discussed my desire to develop some form or structure which would link regular families with various persons who are disenfranch...
Monday, July 19, 2004

Ruminations on a model for churches

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For years, I have wondered about the kind of model I would propose for supporting persons with cognitive disabilities in a local church.  On...
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Wednesday, July 14, 2004

Why so accepting?

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Continuing on with my last entry, I wondered why persons with mental retardation (in particular) are so accepting of others, almost an uncon...
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Tuesday, July 13, 2004

Models of acceptance

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A few weeks back, I went to pick up a man with disabilities who lives at a retirement home, mostly for seniors. Typically when I go to pick...
Thursday, July 08, 2004

The focus of skill development

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In the design of educational programs for students with cognitive disabilities, Dr. Lou Brown at the University of Madison, Wisconsin stated...
Wednesday, July 07, 2004

Ideals for church ministry

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I sometimes wonder whether I really know what specifically I am after when I think of the ideal for involvement of persons with cognitive di...
Monday, July 05, 2004

What would the church look like?

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What would a church that always includes all types of disenfranchised people look like? What would it look like organizationally? T...
Friday, July 02, 2004

We need to lead the way

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Several years back, a friend of mine, a professor at a state university who is not a Christian to my knowledge, sent me a book he had writte...
Thursday, July 01, 2004

If an 18 year old bball player can figure out what to do . . .

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My first real interactions with persons with disabilities was back in 1978 at Wheaton college. My brother, Steve, was working in a recreati...
Wednesday, June 30, 2004

Ga-way

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As I have related elsewhere in this blog, I used to work at an intermediate care facility for adults (over age 18 at that time) with severe ...
Tuesday, June 29, 2004

Aunt Peg

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My Aunt Peg died last night. She had lived a long life, much of it alone as her husband died relatively early on in their marriage and she ...
Sunday, June 27, 2004

Unschooled and ordinary but had been with Jesus

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In the book of Acts, the story is told of Peter and John healing a man who was lame. After healing him, they were arrested and went before ...
Thursday, June 24, 2004

Love and trustworthiness

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I remember as a 19 year old, some of my earliest interactions with persons with disabilities. As a student at Wheaton College, I became fri...

Confession of faith

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In efforts to make a determination of whether an individual is or is not a Christian, people will attempt to determine whether or not an ind...
Tuesday, June 22, 2004

The unfulfilled desire to serve

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If people in my church have the desire to serve but no opportunities are available, then it is my fault, not theirs. This is too often the ...
Monday, June 21, 2004

Some stories

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Once a man who attended our group (we were in Pasadena, CA at the time) used to carry a briefcase to class each week. Among other things in...
Wednesday, June 16, 2004

Evil versus normal

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Lets consider for a moment that mental retardation is a result of sin, in terms of being a result of the Fall (not parental sin, their own s...