Monday, June 26, 2017

Loving your neighbor

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"The love which Paul describes goes out to our brethren and to our fellow men. "Love suffers long." This first stroke of the...
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Thursday, June 08, 2017

Presence of persons with disabilities in the Christian community

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"If nothing else, people with disabilities can at least have presence." I have written quite a bit about presence in this blog. ...
Tuesday, June 06, 2017

A response to suffering

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Maybe part of life is joining clubs you never wished to be a part of,  then walking others through them too. That is a quote from so...
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Thursday, May 18, 2017

Talking to your church leaders about starting disability ministry

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In the great book, Lead like Jesus  by Ken Blanchard and Phil Hodges, there are many great insights. One struck me as I was rereading it re...
Tuesday, May 09, 2017

Definition of disability ministry

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I wanted to post the following mostly to receive input from anyone who might be interested. Here is a first draft of a definition of disabi...
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Friday, April 28, 2017

Meowoof

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I have been receiving much positive feedback on my juvenile fiction novel called Meowoof . It would be great for young people or adults int...
Thursday, April 27, 2017

Treating persons with intellectual disabilities in an age appropriate manner

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Last year, I spoke at a conference attended by persons interested in theology, disability and disability ministry. Many were arguably disab...
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Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Prayer by persons with severe disabilities

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It might seem obvious, but a critical aspect of ministry is to teach people to pray. In assisting adults with intellectual disabilities ...
Monday, March 06, 2017

More on the Good Samaritan: "Who is not my neighbor?"

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If you are a regular reader of this blog, you know that I find the story of the Good Samaritan very very rich. Particularly, I find it rich...
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Tuesday, February 28, 2017

"If one part suffers, all the parts suffer with it"

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1 Corinthians 12 talks about the Body of Christ as a metaphor for the church. Members are represented as hands, eyes and feet in order to i...
Thursday, February 09, 2017

Are we loving or persecuting Jesus?

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There is an interesting connection between what we do to people and what we do to Jesus. We have heard about ministry to devalued people is...
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...