Thursday, December 22, 2016

"Am I a part of the cure? Or am I part of the disease?"

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In the song "Clocks" the band Coldplay asks the question, Am I part of the cure? Or am I part of the disease? These are truly ...
Wednesday, December 07, 2016

Preventing speech about the beauty of people with Down Syndrome

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A dear friend from Australia, among others, made me aware of a video apparently banned on French TV. It was actually just a TV commercial. ...
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Thursday, November 17, 2016

Meowoof A new book by Jeff McNair

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Meowoof is a new book from Jeff McNair. It would be great to give to a young person who feels different in some way, someone with a disabil...
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Wednesday, October 26, 2016

The Fear of Dissidents

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One of my favorite books by Jean Vanier is Becoming Human . It is great book for anyone to read, not just those interested in disability or...
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Thursday, September 22, 2016

Follow up on "How disability ministry could cause a change in human services."

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I was thinking some more about the previous post on the impact disability ministry could have on human services. The more that the church...
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Tuesday, September 20, 2016

How could disability ministry cause a change in human services?

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As I have often mentioned in this blog, the current system of human services in America are based upon the wrong model of what disability i...
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Friday, August 12, 2016

Favoring others over persons with disabilities

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I grabbed my Bible yesterday morning just to do some reading and opened it up to James 2. It is a very powerful passage that I have blogged...
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Tuesday, August 09, 2016

Structural injustice

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As a college student, one of my roommates happened to be an African-American guy. I remember once asking him, "People talk about ins...
Thursday, August 04, 2016

Podcast of Jeff McNair interviewed by Pastor Nick In't Hout

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I was honored to be interviewed by a pastor Nick In't Hout, Associate Pastor at The River CRC of Redlands, California a while back. The...
Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Programs, relationships and people with disabilities

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Programs may lead to cultural change. When there are programs where once were no programs, this is a change in the culture. Whether it is a...
Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Societal perceptions about relationships with persons with disabilities and what they do as a result of those perceptions

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Here is an excerpt from an article I am working on with my friend and colleague, Bryan McKinney. This is an excerpt from the latest draft....
Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Cultural change based on Disability Ministry

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I have been having conversations recently with people about the cultural change that needs to occur within the church. There are programmat...
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Saturday, June 18, 2016

Overcorrections from 1 Corinthians 12:22-23

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The phrases "seems weaker" and "we think less honorable" are both social determinations. Just to say "seems" ...
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Thursday, June 16, 2016

Amy Carmichael and cultural change

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Amy Carmichael was the famous Irish missionary to India. In her book, "Things as they are: Mission work in Southern India" (1905)...
Friday, May 20, 2016

Seeing disability as the change in me

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In other places on this blog, I have discussed the question, "What is disability?" I often will settle on saying that it is a com...
Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Why secular human services needs the church.

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When disability experts try to explain what disability is, they may use two models of disability: the medical model and the social model. ...
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Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Things I learned but was never taught - Presence

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I have been thinking a lot about presence. How the presence of persons with particularly severe disabilities changes those around them. Cle...
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Monday, March 07, 2016

The Church and Disability 2: The Weblog disabledChristianity

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The Church and Disability 2 is the latest collection of blog postings from the disabledChristianity weblog. It is gleanings from the past ...
Sunday, March 06, 2016

Neglecting a human being right in front of us

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I will at times read books about the church or Christian behavior. I am currently reading a book about the church. It always strikes me how...
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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 ...