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Posted on May 12, 2012, 2:31 pm | 2 comments
Transformation begins in a church family when there is enough interaction to make this authenticity contagious. It is liberating to throw off pretense, to admit insufficiencies, and to become completely dependent on God. Read more »
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Posted on May 3, 2012, 10:03 pm
Both before and after our triplets were born, Nathan and I felt an overwhelming sense of love from our congregation. None of it was small to us.
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Posted on April 24, 2012, 10:09 am
Tom Hoeksema and his wife, both white, decided they needed to visit Grace when their adopted African American son asked during a communion service at their previous church, “Do black people ever get to serve communion here?” The first time the Hoeksemas visited Grace, a member who had an intellectual disability walked up to them, reached out his hand in welcome, and said, “Hi, I like you!”
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Posted on April 13, 2012, 1:21 pm
Don't get me wrong. I love our dog Marley. But I do not plan to see Marley again when Christ reappears and the heavens and earth are renewed. When he dies, he'll be gone except for our memories and our pictures.
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Posted on April 2, 2012, 12:00 pm
Who wants to think about limitations that may come as we grow older? If you want to live your older years to the fullest, then you will want to consider changes that may come and prepare for them. Some changes that come with aging are unwelcome, but good preparation for them will
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Posted on March 26, 2012, 4:28 pm
We like to tell ourselves, “My church welcomes anyone.” But our failure to make our buildings and communication and programs accessible to a wide range of people sends the opposite message.
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Posted on March 20, 2012, 8:01 am
Chris said that when his parents gave him his first voice synthesizer, he went from not speaking to talking in complete sentences in one day. I praise God for Christian leaders like Chris who can speak so articulately. He talks about disability, of course, but more importantly, he talks about what it means to be human.
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Posted on March 12, 2012, 11:15 am | 2 comments
Can you imagine the firestorm of criticism if some media outlet speculated about the state of this soldier’s marriage as a reason for his violent behavior? A firestorm would be justified. Yet no firestorm erupts when pundits speculate about his mental state.
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Posted on March 6, 2012, 9:16 am | 5 comments
In a recent article in the Journal of Medical Ethics, the authors, Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva, promote the idea that regions where abortion is legal should also allow the killing of newborn children. The Princeton University bioethicist Peter Singer put forth a similar argument a number of years ago.
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Posted on February 28, 2012, 8:51 am | 2 comments
Making your congregation welcoming and accessible can be done because it has been done—somewhere by people just like you. Amazing Gifts tells those stories.
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Posted on February 21, 2012, 10:30 am | 3 comments
Jeremy Lin, a point guard with the New York Knicks, has been in the news. Thanks to his fine playing, people are taking notice of him, and with that extra attention some commentators have engaged in stereotyping resulting in racial jokes and slurs about Lin's Asian heritage.
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Posted on February 10, 2012, 9:07 am
Please don't ask if I'm content in my singleness. I'm not there yet, and I don't know when I will be. I see myself as single by circumstance, not necessarily by choice.
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Posted on January 31, 2012, 9:40 am | 2 comments
When Frank Eckl and his family sat down for dinner at Don Julio’s restaurant last November, they had no idea this decision would begin a series of events that would result in the arrest of a young woman and the closing of the restaurant.
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Posted on January 23, 2012, 4:23 pm | 3 comments
A controversy rages about the definition of autism. The American Psychiatric Association is considering a redefinition of the term for the newest edition of their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM). Should the definition of “autism” or any other disability matter for us who are involved in churches?
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Posted on January 17, 2012, 6:29 am
Ministering to people with mental illnesses can intimidate many congregational leaders. Pathways to Promise provides outstanding free resources that will reduce the intimidation and enhance caring of congregations for their members who live with mental illnesses.
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Posted on January 2, 2012, 9:00 am | 5 comments
When my mom broke her hip this past Tuesday, the four of us had to decide whether or not she would have surgery. Because mom has late stage dementia, she could not make the decision herself. Deciding about surgery felt like deciding to be cruel or to be evil.
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