S5 E20 | Disability Belongs in Church with Dr. Amy Kenny
While Jesus welcomed the disabled, the poor, and the outcast, Christian communities are often spaces of exclusion. Dr. Amy Kenny is a disabled scholar, a Shakespeare Lecturer, and the author…
While Jesus welcomed the disabled, the poor, and the outcast, Christian communities are often spaces of exclusion. Dr. Amy Kenny is a disabled scholar, a Shakespeare Lecturer, and the author…
Our cultural imagination right now is being shaped by the lies and distortions of commercialism and materialism and violence. When we allow entertainment and productivity and consumer products and celebrity…
In the weeks leading up to William’s confirmation at church, we talked a lot about what it meant to stand up in front of a group of people and profess…
What does rest in a restless world look like? Kate Rademacher, public health expert and author of Reclaiming Rest, talks with Amy Julia Becker about rest, burnout, healing, social justice,…
I’ve started hearing from groups around the country that are using To Be Made Well for discussion and teaching. Some of these groups are a half dozen people, others number…
I am not a gardener. I love beautiful flowers and I welcome farm-to-table vegetables. But I do not provide such things for myself. And even I know enough about farming…
"Human beings need to be rescued from seeing themselves as fundamentally ‘able.’” “It is the experience of one’s self as ‘able’ in comparison to others that is fundamentally problematic for…
“I believe. Help my unbelief.” “Lord, save us!” “My little daughter is dying. Please come and put your hands on her so that she might live.” “Don’t you care if…
I’m so grateful for this recent review on Life Is Story of To Be Made Well: “To Be Made Well is reflective, personal story of finding insight into the nature…
Flowers serve a purpose, I know, evolutionarily. But I’ve been gazing at this arrangement of flowers leftover from Sunday’s party and thinking how absurd it is. How funny and winsome…