disabled Christianity

Discussion of issues related to Christianity/theology and persons with disability, and disability ministry hosted by Jeff McNair, a Special Education professor. Jeff and his wife Kathi have been involved in ministry with adults with intellectual disabilities for 40 years. (all entries are © Jeff McNair).

Saturday, April 29, 2006

Community Integration

This week I am headed up to Montreal for a conference on social inclusion of persons with disabilities, particularly those experiencing ment...

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

"The ministry is already full"

I heard an interesting, true story the other day. A person was being interviewed for a position as an assistant to a ministry to persons wi...

Friday, April 14, 2006

Removing the feeding tube

I just heard that a lifetime friend of mine who had fallen into Alzheimers disease has possibly had her feeding tube removed. Both she and ...

Friday, April 07, 2006

Crash again

In the previous post, I related the scene from the movie Crash about the white cop and the black hitchhiker. Please revisit that descriptio...

Monday, April 03, 2006

Crash

I finally had the opportunity to view the movie Crash , recent winner of the Academy Award for best picture. I found the film very thought ...

Friday, March 31, 2006

"Points of insubordination"

I have been reading some Michel Foucault (which may worry some of you). Actually, I am reading the writings of others who are translating F...

Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Secret Girl

I read a recent article in the January/February issue of the AARP newsletter (no cracks about my age please, my in laws graciously provided ...

Monday, March 20, 2006

Proverbs and Jeremiah

Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, don't lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowlege him and he'll...

Friday, March 17, 2006

"Don't be conformed to this world..."

Romans 12:2 says, Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the g...

Thursday, March 09, 2006

"They'll know we are Christians by our lack of experience"

It struck me this week how inexperienced the average person who attends a church is about persons with disabilities. I know a wide variety ...

Monday, March 06, 2006

NACSPED 2006

March 11, 2006 will be the second annual meeting of the National Association of Christians in Special Education. This year the meeting is o...

Wednesday, March 01, 2006

Listening to the spirit of the world

A frequent respondent to this blog who contributes under the name "impossibleape" wrote the following (see February 22, 2006 entry...

Wednesday, February 22, 2006

"We'll take you and not you"

I was hit today with something quite obvious, but I hadn't thought about it in this way before. It struck me that churches/pastors will...

Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Jeremiah 29:11

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Those...

Wednesday, February 08, 2006

"Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Clause"

I was recently talking with some colleagues about how there are many apocryphal stories floating around, and have been for years, which embr...

Monday, February 06, 2006

A "replacement narrative"

A friend and colleague of mine, Arthur Seale and I have been in discussion about the notion of a replacement narrative. That is, a story, a...

Saturday, February 04, 2006

Rev. Dennis Kingsland

A co-laborer with us in working to open churches to persons with disability died this past week. I only knew Rev. Dennis Kingsland for a fe...

Friday, February 03, 2006

Why healing?

When you think about why there might be persons who experience disability in the world, typically you come up with two types of responses. ...

Thursday, January 19, 2006

"decisions to continue or terminate are never medical decisions"

I recently reacquainted myself with an article by Roberts, Stough and Parish, written in 2002 entitled, The Role of Genetic Counseling in th...

Monday, January 16, 2006

Down syndrome music video

I have an idea for a music video which I am happy to share with any interested rock band. Here goes... The video begins moving between scen...

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