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Read more about the article False Message: Disability is a tragedy to be alleviated.

False Message: Disability is a tragedy to be alleviated.

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:January 19, 2023
  • Post category:Disability
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When it comes to disability, we receive many erroneous and incomplete messages from the media and popular culture. Here’s the second of four false messages we receive about disability. FALSE…

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Read more about the article False Message: Disability is a problem to be fixed.

False Message: Disability is a problem to be fixed.

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:January 13, 2023
  • Post category:Disability/Down Syndrome
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Every day, we encounter images and phrases and assumptions and false messages about disability that shape our way of perceiving people with disabilities. Many of these depictions and assumptions are…

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Read more about the article And You Will Be Blessed

And You Will Be Blessed

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:November 3, 2022
  • Post category:Disability/Down Syndrome/Faith
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Disability and blessing. I preached on that topic from Luke 14 last Sunday, and I wanted to share that with you here. As many of you know, Penny was diagnosed…

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Read more about the article Hope Heals Camp: Belovedness and Belonging

Hope Heals Camp: Belovedness and Belonging

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:July 26, 2022
  • Post category:Disability/Down Syndrome/Faith
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Hope Heals Camp exists as a place where families affected by disability can receive rest, resources, and relationships. As Jay and Katherine Wolf, co-founders, say, Hope Heals seeks to “disrupt…

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Read more about the article Telling a New Story About Disability
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Telling a New Story About Disability

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:July 13, 2022
  • Post category:Disability
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There’s a mindset around disability that says things like: People with disabilities are always suffering. People with disabilities are a burden. A life with a disability is not a full…

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Read more about the article S5 E22 | Disability and the Speed of Love with Dr. John Swinton

S5 E22 | Disability and the Speed of Love with Dr. John Swinton

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:June 28, 2022
  • Post category:Disability/Podcast
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 How do we create communities where friendship is a possibility among people of differing abilities? Dr. John Swinton, theologian and author, talks with Amy Julia Becker about mutual relationships of…

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Read more about the article S5 E20 | Disability Belongs in Church with Dr. Amy Kenny

S5 E20 | Disability Belongs in Church with Dr. Amy Kenny

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:May 31, 2022
  • Post category:Disability/Faith/Podcast
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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…

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TIME: How Disability Changed What Easter Means to My Family

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:April 16, 2022
  • Post category:Disability/Down Syndrome/Faith/Family
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I wrote an essay for TIME that came out today: How Disability Changed What Easter Means to My Family. As I write in this essay, when our daughter Penny was…

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Read more about the article “I Don’t Want Anyone to ‘Fix’ My Kid”
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“I Don’t Want Anyone to ‘Fix’ My Kid”

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:April 1, 2022
  • Post category:AJB Recommends/Disability/Healing/Parenting
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I listened to Heather Kirn Lanier and Bishop Curry in a beautiful conversation about disability and parenting and what it means to believe that we each are beloved as we…

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Read more about the article Without People with Disabilities, We Are Missing Out
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Without People with Disabilities, We Are Missing Out

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:March 7, 2022
  • Post category:AJB Recommends/Disability/Faith
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If your church doesn’t have any participating members with intellectual disabilities, you are missing out on knowing the fullness of who God is.  I’ve been reading Brian Brock’s wonderful book,…

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