Monday, September 29, 2014

Two steps forward, one step back...

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Well I heard it again today, hadn't heard it for a while.  Had a conversation with a gal living in Mississippi who told me of her exper...
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Tuesday, September 02, 2014

My friend Michael

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My friend Michael passed away last night. He was one of those people in your life that you immediately make a connection with. I wouldn...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014

"Natural like home"

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In our Light and Power Company group, we often talk about how we feel more like a family than like a class or a group that meets at church....
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Monday, July 21, 2014

"God has a mission so the mission has a church"

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A new friend, Rev. Phil Gale (husband of CBM's Luke 14 Director, Lindsey Gale), in one of our many great discussions, turned me on to t...
Monday, June 16, 2014

People with their backs against the wall

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I recently came across a wonderful book called Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman. Rev. Thurman wrote the book in the 1940s out...
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Monday, May 19, 2014

Follow Me Session #3 - Light and Power Company

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Follow Me Session #3 - Light and Power Company In our Light and Power group, we are studing the "Follow Me" Bible st...
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Tuesday, May 06, 2014

Follow Me Session #2 - Light and Power Company

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Follow Me Session #2 - Light and Power Company In our Light and Power group, we are studing the "Follow Me" Bible st...
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Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Follow Me Session #1 - Light and Power Company

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In our Light and Power group, we are studing the "Follow Me" Bible study curriculum.  This curriculum is being studied church wi...
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Friday, April 18, 2014

The "special" label

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A student of mine, a woman with a physical impairment, recently wrote in an article synopsis of her experience in her church. The church wa...
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Monday, March 31, 2014

Matthew 25 from Joni and Friends Daily Devotional

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  The following is from   Joni and Friends Daily Devotional March 30, 2014   "You Did It for Me" ...
Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Individuals with Disabilities and Employment Survey

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Please consider taking this survey if you are an individual with a disability and meet the criteria below. Thanks, McNair Individuals ...
Monday, March 17, 2014

Embracing "asociality"

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In thinking through the social structures of the church, the Mark 7:8 & 13 passages become crucial in decision making. What are the ...
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Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Video of Light and Power Company session

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My wife, Kathi, and I facilitate (along with many other outstanding volunteers), a ministry called the Light and Power Company.  The group ...
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Saturday, March 08, 2014

Kindle version of "The Church and Disability" now available

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The Church and Disability is a book I put together, with gleanings from this blog over the first few years. In some cases, postings were ex...
Wednesday, March 05, 2014

The virute of apathy

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Just finished watching the movie " Se7en ". I don't necessarily recommend it.  Very violent and dark. However, there is one p...
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Monday, February 10, 2014

"...we treat with special honor"

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1 Corinthians 12 is a description of the Body of Christ. I have written many times about this passage. But I want to pull out a different s...
Wednesday, February 05, 2014

Universal social design

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Please check out the following link to an article I wrote on the topic of universal social design and some further commente to flesh out th...
Tuesday, February 04, 2014

Alone yet not alone...two interesting articles

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Here are two links from two unlikely places...The Huffington Post and Variety Magazine. I would encourage you to check out each of them. ...
Friday, January 31, 2014

Satisfied...?

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Imagine a man with an intellectual disability. Lets say he is like 45 and doesn't live at home. Just with that description, many people...
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Saturday, January 25, 2014

What is relevant?

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We had a discussion in one of my classes the other night about the medical and social models of disability.  You can find out more about th...
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