Disability Concerns

For Breaking Barriers Summer 2021, Becky Jones shares about her work as an art therapist, working with many clients who live with disabilities and how art is a vehicle for personal expression.

Cassie leads worship for First Reformed Church. She wrote this song with a hymn-like structure with these core themes: solitude, community, and mission.

Writing free-verse poems during the first year following his wife's death was cathartic for Ivan. He has shared a few of his poems in the Summer 2021 Breaking Barriers Newsletter.

In one Disability Concerns workshop exercise, participants are asked to identify a number of personal characteristics that society values, including ones related to ethnicity and ability. Through this, we can begin addressing systems that privilege some but not others.

Angela has lived with multiple sclerosis for 35 years, yet how she experienced life with MS was a choice.

Access to care, support, and the vaccine over the course of the pandemic has been a greater challenge for people living on the margins of our society. Churches must take steps to educate people and eliminate these inequalities.

Dr. Watts has seen first hand the significant challenges of unconscious bias that many Black students have had to deal with and the devastating effects they can have.

While the rest of the world collectively mourned the loss of closeness and community, I suddenly found myself a new reason to smile. 

Traveling with a disability can be challenging, if not difficult, and memories of such adventures can be instructive, hurtful, hilarious, and more. Read about some of these adventures!  

For me, traveling mostly involves managing motion sickness. Still, I count my blessings, because traveling for many others living with disabilities is much more complicated than it is for me.