by Martin Hobgen | Jan 28, 2020 | Opinion
Three factors play a part in how we exclude or include and welcome disabled people: language, understanding who disabled people are and theological perspective on disability. I addressed the first two factors yesterday and will focus on the third factor here....
by Martin Hobgen | Jan 27, 2020 | Opinion
“We’ve got a place for people like you.” That was the greeting I received at the door. If I hadn’t been part of a church weekend away visiting another church many miles from home, I might have turned around and walked (or wheeled) away. The church building turned out...
by Andrea King | Jan 22, 2020 | Opinion
I started my working life in a small charity in London that reached out to children and young people who’d been entirely let down. Most were street homeless, getting by doing what they needed to do every day, to find something to eat and somewhere to sleep. My job...
by Andrea King | Jan 21, 2020 | Opinion
When Paul painted a picture of a body of Christ in which hand and foot, eye and ear, were equally valued and welcomed (1 Corinthians 12 and Romans 12:4-8), he set forth a radical call for inclusion. It was no mean feat to bring Jew and Greek, men and women, slave and...
by Michael Manning | Nov 12, 2019 | Opinion
“If you can’t measure it, then it doesn’t exist.” This sentiment, or versions of it, is prevalent across a whole range of areas in society and the church. On the face of it, this makes sense. It seems sensible to plan the amount of food you’re...
