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Seeing Beyond Disability (Erin Huber)

In my endeavors to learn and be enriched, I cannot discount the experience I gain from being in relationship with others. I can acquire knowledge, capacity, and skills from academic study and reading and yet it has been when I have engaged in community and established friendships with people with exceptional needs that I have gained the most.

By |2017-05-11T15:39:12-04:00May 11th, 2017|Guest posts, Stories|

Pain and Promise in the Last Supper (Mike Walker)

Jesus names his present and future vulnerability to pain in this verse and empowers his friends to claim their own limitations, and to use them as the basis for trust. I know how Jesus feels, in terms of having a broken body. I have spastic cerebral palsy: this neurological condition means that my muscles are always tense, or spastic, and that I experience palsy, or continuous tremors in all my limbs.

By |2017-04-12T09:55:46-04:00April 13th, 2017|Guest posts, Reflections, Theology|
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