Wednesday, February 10, 2016

"...a splinter in your mind"

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I love the movie The Matrix. I have quoted it elsewhere in this blog. When Neo "awakens" from being inside the matrix he has the ...
Thursday, February 04, 2016

"Being seen"

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I had the privilege of hearing Katherine and Jay Wolf on Tuesday. They are an amazing couple with a website, and a book http://www.hopeheal...
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Sunday, December 27, 2015

Ministry shapes the church

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How will our involvement in ministry shape the church? It definitely shapes us as individuals. Each of us knows people who are are involved...
Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Milky Ministry

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Dear brothers and sisters, when I was with you I couldn't talk to you as I would to spiritual people. I had to talk as though you belo...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015

"Who do you say that I am?"

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   Some friends got together as they often did just for a cup of coffee and some conversation. It was clear that one of the group was ha...
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Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Hospital reflections

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I just spent 24 hours in the hospital. My experience was so positive, I began to reflect on it as a model, perhaps a metaphor for how the c...
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Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Lightening the load leading to obedience

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A colleague of mine, Dr. Kathy McReynolds recently wrote this for a project we are both working on as team members. She wrote, "The...
Monday, October 12, 2015

Presentations by Jeff McNair from Faith Inclusion Network conference

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I recently had the privilege of participating in a conference put on by the Faith Inclusion Network. As a part of that conference, I did a...
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Thursday, October 08, 2015

Are you suffering for doing good?

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While in Dominican Republic, I met a woman who asked me about a neighbor of hers with mental illness. She related how perhaps once a month ...
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Wednesday, October 07, 2015

Mysterious gifting

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I met a man on a recent trip to the Dominican Republic. His name was Moses and like many people he found himself lost in life. Out of despe...
Monday, September 28, 2015

"Sometimes you have to make a ruckus"

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       Another student of mine (I have great students!) also presented on a Biblical passage. Hers was from Mark 2 where the story is to...
Saturday, September 26, 2015

"I bring awkwardness to the situation"

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A student of mine made a presentation in class this past week. He was relating a Bible passage to the experience of disability. Just in pas...
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Wednesday, September 02, 2015

Providing opportunities for the expression of gifts

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The 1 Corinthians 12 chapter describes the manner in which people are gifted, by God, for the edification of the body. That is, your gift i...
Monday, August 10, 2015

Ministry to persons with disabilities is not an "organic" ministry

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Was chatting with a friend recently who was visiting. She talked about conversations with the pastor of her church about working toward dev...
Monday, July 27, 2015

"Teach me" or "the chance to understand"

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In our Light and Power class, we have been going through a harmony of the Gospels. This past week we were looking at Matthew 13:10-17 as...
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Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Missionaries who prepare nationals to serve persons with disabilities

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Kathi and I had a great conversation with Ms. Ashley Hall, a gal who is spearheading the development and offering of an undergraduate progr...
Saturday, July 18, 2015

Christian School Special Education

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I was recently asked to help develop programs for a Christian school. Not an unusual request. However, as is sometimes the case, their star...
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Thursday, July 16, 2015

Final Authority

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People's behavior is governed by something. It may be that they do "whatever seems right in their own eyes" as the book of Ju...
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Monday, July 06, 2015

Is community integration understood by those charged with facilitating it?

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The title of this posting is the title of an article I just submitted for publication by one of my students and I. We surveyed group homes ...
Friday, June 26, 2015

"...all the people did whatever seemed right in their own eyes."

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"...all the people did whatever seemed right in their own eyes." That is the way the book of Judges ends. When we are instruct...