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).

Friday, December 19, 2008

Jesus Christ, not so Superstar

Last night my family went into LA to see a musical play. It is our tradition to do so during the Christmas holiday. This year, we saw J es...

Friday, December 12, 2008

The regular life

A friend of mine contacted me this week. She is a someone with a disability who told me about her feelings of loneliness and being stressed...

Tuesday, December 02, 2008

From "Surprised by Hope" by N.T. Wright

I have been reading Surprised by Hope by N.T. Wright with some friends. I have found it a fascinating book. As the subtitle states, it deal...

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Broadening the notion of "ministry"

I had the priviledge of speaking in a class on suffering and disability at Biola University this past Monday. The class went fine. Afterwar...

Southern California has an earthquake drill

Today, California had an earthquake drill to simulate a 7.6 quake. The idea is to prepare schools, government buildings and businesses for w...

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Social healing

The gospels have many accounts of people with various infirmities or disabilities coming to Jesus and receiving healing. This is actually a...

Monday, October 27, 2008

Lessons from Dr. Marc Gold

Thanks to one of my students, Lilian, I rediscovered a video by one of my professional heroes, Dr. Marc Gold. Dr. Gold was known for his ...

Perfection and imperfection

As I have stated elsewhere in this blog, Kathi and I have adopted the practice of bringing friends of ours with intellectual disabilities to...

Thursday, October 16, 2008

A new member of our group

This week at The Light and Power Company (our group that includes adults with various disabilities) we had a new attendee. He is a man, lets...

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

More on Special Education reforms

So this week, I have been in several classrooms. Last week, I was with a brand new teacher who had been left alone, still in her first week ...

Wednesday, October 08, 2008

They like Gospel music

I was going through some of the materials from the IASSID conference I attended in Cape Town South Africa and ran across notes from a sessio...

Friday, October 03, 2008

Special education needs reform

I was visiting a local California high school today, and for some reason something I observed just set me off. It was like the last straw. ...

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Great Expectations

I am often in situations where people with intellectual disabilities and those without who are their teachers, their care providers, their f...

Disability Studies MA mentioned in Christianity Today

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

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Us becoming like Them

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?

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

Monday, September 22, 2008

A real life metaphor

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...

Saturday, September 20, 2008

Teacher interactions with parents of children with disabilities

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 ...

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Typical experiences

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

Sunday, September 14, 2008

Softening the environment

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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