Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Great Expectations

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I am often in situations where people with intellectual disabilities and those without who are their teachers, their care providers, their f...
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Disability Studies MA mentioned in Christianity Today

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In an editorial entitled Surprised by disability by Al Hsu Christianity Today magazine makes mention of the new, entirely online, MA degre...
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Us becoming like Them

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I have had a bit of a revelation in the last few weeks. I finished writing an article that has a great title. It is called, "The indisp...
Tuesday, September 23, 2008

How far have we come?

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I recently received an article from my mother, a resident of Minnesota, that was entitled State facility improperly handcuffed retarded resi...
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Monday, September 22, 2008

A real life metaphor

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This past week in church, my pastor, Dr. Gary Inrig, related the story of a man who saved his son who had fallen into a septic tank.  The st...
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Saturday, September 20, 2008

Teacher interactions with parents of children with disabilities

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I recently had the opportunity to do an inservice for a local public school. The school called me to speak to the teachers who were feeling ...
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Typical experiences

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In his discussion of the wounding experienced by persons with disabilities, Dr. Wolf Wolfensberger relates that often, particularly people w...
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Sunday, September 14, 2008

Softening the environment

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For many years, I have thought that a critical factor in the integration of persons with intellectual disabilities into the community is the...
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Compartmentalizing disability

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I am a person who became interested in persons with disabilities, particularly intellectual disabilities because of the way they drew me in,...
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The moral "where with all"

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While in Cape Town at the IASSID conference, I attended two presentation relative to personhood of people with disabilities, in particular i...
Tuesday, September 09, 2008

IASSID Religion and Spirituality Division

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One of the reasons for my trip to South Africa, was to assist in the development of a special interest group of IASSID (International Associ...
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"Forgiveness"

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At the IASSID conference in South Africa, I attended a session by a researcher from the UK.  The woman was doing research on attitudes towar...
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Friday, September 05, 2008

South Africa: So what do you do?

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After visiting Cape Town, South Africa, I have been trying to integrate and understand many of the experiences I had there. I think the tim...
Saturday, August 23, 2008

Hello from Cape Town!

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Well, for the next week or so, I am in Cape Town South Africa at the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disa...
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Sunday, August 17, 2008

Beginning traditions

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While working on a brief article for the the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disability's Religion and Spirituali...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Unencumbered by knowledge...

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Kathi and I have been getting lots of emails about the new movie Tropic Thunder regarding comments made in the movie that demean persons wit...
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Saturday, August 09, 2008

Choosing to be "smart"

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I just finished reading the book Just Courage by Gary Haugen, founder of International Justice Mission.  He makes the following comments (pp...
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Tuesday, August 05, 2008

disabilityministry.com

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There are several of us who are interested in developing a web page that lists model programs serving persons with disabilities nationally. ...
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What to do? How to begin?

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I recently had the opportunity to teach a portion of the second Joni and Friends certificate program to be offered by them at the Christian ...
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Friday, July 25, 2008

Statement about slavery

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My daughter Amy and her friend Heather, are working in Africa this Summer. They are teaching English, doing community development among othe...
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