by Libby Carroll | Jul 15, 2022 | Opinion
Author’s Disclaimer: Throughout this article, I have opted to use person-first and disability-first language interchangeably when referring to people with disabilities. Disabled people have thoughtful and varied reasons for preferring one form of language over the...
by Erin Albin Hill | Oct 16, 2020 | Opinion
I am a licensed social worker in the state of Texas. I also am a seminary graduate. When both of these roles are approached ethically, responsibly and with appropriate boundaries, they work together beautifully. It is because of my faith that I deeply care about...
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 Martin Hobgen | Aug 1, 2013 | Opinion
How can churches enable disabled people to be more involved in the life and mission of the church? This was the central question raised at the Enabling Church conference at Westbury-on-Trym Baptist Church in Bristol in the United Kingdom on Saturday, July 6, as a...
