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Las medicinas: Muchas son las personas que toman medicinas para el dolor, para la artritis reumática, para las convulsiones, y para muchas otras razones. En esta edición, los autores describirán el papel que las medicinas tienen en sus vidas, y el impacto de su fe en Dios.
약물: 많은 사람들은 통증, 류마티스 관절염, 발작 등의 이유로 약을 복용합니다. 이번 호에서는 필자들이 자신들의 일상에서 겪은 약물의 역할과 약 복용이 신앙에 어떤 영향을 주는지 그들이 겪은 경험을 나눕니다.
Weighing benefits, side-effects, and costs make decisions about medications challenging.
Finding the right medications has taken decades for Michèle Gyselinck.
I am grateful for medications and for health insurance, but I resent being treated like a criminal when I seek help.
God used my brain chemistry to draw me into a fuller reliance upon him. I may recoil at the idea of dependence, but it is God’s way.
Many people take medications for pain, for rheumatoid arthritis, for seizures, and for other reasons. In this issue, authors describe the role of medication in their lives and its impact on their faith in God.
Dr. Jay Dolmage is a professor at the University of Waterloo. Recently he spoke on Academic Ableism at Western Theological Seminary. He has shared many great resources with us in this article.
Love, support, and a heaping dose of laughter have helped Michelle McIlroy trust that God is using various medications to bring her back into life with her family, church, and community.
Even in the midst of wheelchairs and twisted ribbons and broken zippers, each friend shows such honesty and humour. They lift my spirits each week!
Side effects from various anti-seizure medications took Jon Rink and his family on a long and difficult journey before he found relief.
Here's my story of navigating an urban theology through the lens of disability.
Wheelchair user and husband travel 74 miles of the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage with inaugural "I'll Push You" group.
Looking to grow your church? Likely, you have people living close by who would love to get involved.
청각장애가 있거나 청각장애를 지닌 가족과 함께 사는 필자들이 일상에서 겪는 개인적인 어려움과 청각장애가 교회 안에서 어떠한 영향을 미치는지 그들의 경험을 나눕니다.
In listening to Chris, and in accommodating myself to his needs, I have learned a lot about him, about his disability, and about myself.
I'm excited to step into my new role assisting the ministries of Disability Concerns and Safe Church. Find out some of my story below. Looking forward to connecting!
La sordera y los problemas de auditivos: Los autores que tienen problemas de audición o viven con familiares sordos describen sus desafíos personales y de qué forma la sordera impacta sus experiencias en la iglesia.
For Mental Health Awareness Week (Oct 6-12) we encourage your church to develop greater awareness of the one in five people among us who have mental health issues and to consider ways to minister with them.
The following questions were asked by youth in our church several years ago. My husband's answers helped them understand what it’s like to be blind, and how they might help others with visual loss.
Deaf and Hard of Hearing—Authors who are hard of hearing or live with family members with hearing loss describe personal challenges and how hearing loss impacts their experience in the church.
From the title to the final, frightening story with which the book concludes, Shar Boerema clings to hope in God and God’s faithful plan for the lives of everyone she loves.
Owen Wigger and his family sent a letter to his first-grade teacher and classmates. Because he does not speak, this letter will help pave the way for their relationships with him.
In spite of facts, the president of the United States has been using his bully pulpit in recent days to finger mental illness as a cause of mass shootings. This assertion is foolish and dangerous.
I have been disabled and mostly house bound for 25 years! I was a type A person before and in some ways, I still am.