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Posted on April 17, 2012, 2:46 am | 2 comments
Topics: Community
As the church we have the responsibility to act justly - yet we often shy away from complex justice issues. In Canada, a new initiative is seeking truth and reconciliation for those Aboriginal persons and communities that have been affected by attending residential schools. How should we respond as individuals, churches and a denomination?
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Posted on November 8, 2011, 11:08 am | 25 comments
Topics: Network Buzz, Caring
Recently, Max Lucado published a book which included a devotion with reflections on disability and disease called "We Shall Be Like Him." Although he intends to encourage the reader, the language used and assumptions made in the devotional diminish people with disabilities.
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Posted on October 10, 2011, 2:31 pm
Topics: Advocacy
Some people may wonder what it would mean to “celebrate” disability week, because they believe that disabilities are nothing to celebrate. However, we do have reason to celebrate the people in our congregations who live with disabilities.
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Posted on October 3, 2011, 4:19 pm
Topics: Accessibility
James Soliday, a former employee of 7-Eleven who has 95 percent hearing loss, managed several stores effectively for many years, but was terminated, it seems, because a new supervisor was not willing to accommodate for his hearing loss as his supervisors had in the past.
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Posted on September 26, 2011, 10:20 am
Topics: Advocacy
This page on the Diaconal Ministries Canada website provides ideas and resources for deacons in their ministry of justice with people with disabilities.
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Posted on July 1, 2011, 11:24 am | 2 comments
Topics: Advocacy
If we are serious about our mission as God's agents of renewal in society, our efforts at eliminating injustice, mitigating poverty, and helping people to become self-sustaining need to start with people with disabilities. If every anti-poverty effort, every development initiative, every benevolence committee in every CRC in North America began with the question, "How will this affect people with disabilities?" our work would be transformed dramatically for the better.
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Posted on June 23, 2011, 1:33 pm
Topics: Advocacy
In this entry on the ThinkChristian blog, Mark Stephenson challenges the Christian community to be a voice of advocacy for individuals with disabilities, to create housing options that meet the needs of our brothers and sisters with intellectual disabilities and to foster a community where everybody belongs and everybody serves.
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Posted on June 21, 2011, 5:46 pm
Topics: Advocacy
Any congregation that is serious about hospitality and serious about justice must recognize that disability isn’t about those people over there, it is about us, and it affects nearly every aspect of church life (as well as society).
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Posted on May 24, 2011, 2:37 pm
Topics: Advocacy
Using the r-word about another person or about doing something foolish slams fellow image-bearers of God. Take a pledge at this website to promise not to use it and to encourage others to stop using it. Also, check out this powerful new PSA produced by r-word.org.
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Posted on May 5, 2011, 9:27 am
Topics: Safe Church
There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot… a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh…a time to be silent and a time to speak … Isn't there also a time to act?
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Posted on April 11, 2011, 8:17 am
Topics: Deacons
You know there is a topic that NEEDS to be discussed. You WANT it to be addressed. And you KNOW it'll cause tension, stress and maybe bad feelings if you bring it up. What to do? Leaders in our congregations need to know how to help the membership deal with difficult topics in fruitful and safe ways. It can be
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Posted on December 30, 2010, 4:33 pm | 9 comments
Topics: Deacons
Every once in a while some angry prophet gets in my face, jerks me to attention, and pushes my nose into reality. I desperately want to get away. What I really need to do is trust and obey.
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Posted on December 6, 2010, 3:51 pm
Topics: Roles
Mary's song of hope becomes more challenging when it moves beyond charity for the poor to judgment: “…but he has sent the rich away empty.” How are we to participate in the kingdom activity of sending the rich away empty? I can’t say I have ever heard a sermon about that.
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Posted on October 26, 2010, 2:12 pm
Topics: Deacons
Here's a church that has thought long and hard about the role of deacon. Here's a job description that expresses that good thinking. AND here's a job opening you need to check out!
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Posted on October 5, 2010, 12:06 pm | 3 comments
Topics: Accessibility
Last week I asked why we tend to limit our idea of diversity in church to ethnic diversity. Like one reader responded to the question last week, diversity of ability falls outside of most people's thinking because most people don't want people with disabilities included in their activities.
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