Friday, June 19, 2009

Come without your "competence"

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My daughter Amy graduated from Seattle Pacific University last weekend. She had a wonderful experience there. On Sunday, we visited Univer...
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Jean Vanier on Lazarus

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Jesus' friend Lazarus, may have been a person with a disability. That is what Jean Vanier (L'Arche communities) suggests. He state...
Monday, June 08, 2009

Graceland

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Im going to Graceland Poorboys and pilgrims with families And we are going to graceland My traveling companion is nine years old He is the c...
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Friday, June 05, 2009

Peter Maurin: Wisdom from Easy Essays

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Peter Maurin along with Dorothy Day were the founders of the Catholic Worker Movement. Maurin is also somewhat known for his "Easy Ess...
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Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Disability natives vs. Disability immigrants

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In his article, "Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants" (from On the Horizon, NCB University Press, Vol. 9, No. 5, October 2001) Mar...
Tuesday, May 12, 2009

This is how we do it

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So I heard through the grape vine, from a very reliable source about a Southern California Christian college that is trying to start a progr...
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Sunday, May 10, 2009

Marriage

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I am probably "late to the party" on this one, however, in recent weeks I have met two couples who have made me aware of a problem...
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009

A few comments on leadership

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Throughout the years of writing this blog, I have at times complained about leadership within the church. In my Feb 4, 2006 entry, I spoke ...
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Friday, April 24, 2009

The social integration mystery

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Yesterday I went to the retirement party of a long time friend. He has worked in the field of rehabilitation for nearly 40 years. The part...
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Final Serbia report

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Well we had an amazing time our last night in Belgrade that revolved around going to this large facility for people with various disabilitie...
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Thursday, April 16, 2009

More from Serbia

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We had another wonderful day yesterday. It is interesting that there are several students in the group who themselves have a disability. E...
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009

A report from Serbia

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As I write this, I am sitting in a room of 23 people from Serbia, Macedonia and other places, some Bible students, some church leaders in th...
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009

"You feed them" moments

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My friends, Mark, Rick and George are all reading Andy Crouch's Culture Making (2008, IVP) together. In the first section of the book t...
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Monday, March 16, 2009

Friendship and change

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More from Dr. Hans Reinder's book, Receiving the gift of friendship: Profound disability, theological anthropology and ethics . I wish t...
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Friday, March 13, 2009

The dream of an advocate

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When my son Josh and I go to the movies together, we are always looking for the classic line. It is typically not the lines that Hollywood...
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Thursday, March 12, 2009

Where we are today...not a good place

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I received this notice the other day about groups on facebook... Currently there are over 1000 groups on Facebook whose goal is to mock and ...
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Doublespeak

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I was chatting with some friends the other day, and they were relating how elated they were that President Obama was elected. Being older a...
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Friday, March 06, 2009

Friends with and without disabilities

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I gave an inservice to professional working in the area of "transition" this past Wednesday. Transition, in case you don't kn...
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Learning from my friends

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This past week we celebrated the 16 year of our Light and Power group at my church. Kathi and I started the group way back then and have le...
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Be compassionate, don't evacuate

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In my entry of 11/18/08 , I spoke about the earthquake drill here in Southern California, and the problematic response I observed at one hig...
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