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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
24 hours after my essay for the New York Times came out online, I learned it was also in the print edition! So that was exciting. But I also learned…
I asked Penny if she would be willing to answer a few questions about her experience with the PATH process. These are her unedited responses: How would you explain what…
Once a year, a group of people from Penny’s school, family, and community gather together with her to talk about her hopes and dreams for the future through a process…
What does it mean to be healthy? Can people with disabilities be healthier than typical people? What does it mean to be healed by God? Dr. Brian Brock, author of…
My friend’s son was whistling in class. The other kids were annoyed. Another friend’s daughter drools a lot and other kids think it’s “gross.” Some kids smell bad. Others make…
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