Fri. Sept. 14, 2012

Having talked with Molly tonight, I wanted to put up a list of the books on theology+disability that people recommended when I crowdsourced on Sunday (thanks to those who signal-boosted and/or responded) since the prime takeaway from that conversation was a commitment to keep engaging with this issue.

* A Healing Homiletic: ( Read more... )

In the SANS program book, Iliff (where Laci went) had taken out a full-page ad. Their offering of online courses caught my eye.

2011-2012 course listings begin on page 78 of this PDF (or you can read the smaller PDF that is the Masters Course List here). They won my affection early on with BT 3441 Disability & Difference: Theological & Ethical ( Read more... )

Last Tuesday night I was at a visioning session [and yes, I would like a less ableist term for that] for a group I've been involved with for much of this year, and I repeatedly said that social justice isn't where my passion is. And just about every time I said it, I felt a little twinge like I was lying -- because fat pol and disability pol and ( Read more... )

Rowan (of faith-sharing) shared a facebook link for Registration for Hosanna! People's Seminary 2011-12 Programming ( Read more... )

From: Marla
To: Samuel; Pr. Lisa; Elizabeth
Sent: Thu, February 10, 2011 10:33:11 AM
Subject: FYI: Disability Committee (NEUMC)

This went out in the weekly e-news from the Conference:

News from the Disabilities Committee

Stories Wanted!
We at Annual Conference are always looking to hear about how our conference is working to help reach out to more ( Read more... )

So, when I first encountered "The Man Your Man Could Smell Like" Old Spice Commercial, I was uncomfortable.  I didn't have a coherent critique, and I wasn't interested in investing a lot of time/energy coming up with one, 'cause hey, advertising, lots of it is problematic.

And then it became a Thing, and yes, I enjoyed, "Study like a scholar, ( Read more... )

Luke 8:42b-48Jesus moved along, almost crushed by the crowd.  In the crowd was a woman who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years, and though she had spent all she had on physicians, no one could cure her.  She came up behind Jesus and touched the fringe of Jesus' cloak, and immediately the bleeding stopped ( Read more... )

Today I emailed a friend of mine (who is queer and mentally ill), Subject "~closeting," telling her about how a casual friend and I were having a conversation on Facebook Wall about making plans to get together, and she suggested next week and I thought, "I don't know when my therapy appointment next week is," and I opted to move the conversation ( Read more... )

So, last night I went to an ice cream social for admitted Smithies, and I saw an acquaintance of mine from college and went over to say hi to her and one of the first things she said to me was, "You look tired."  After the ice cream social, I went to the re/New visioning meeting at Blue Shirt, and one of the first things Jeff V. said to me was, " ( Read more... )

thanks to undeny for the reminder: Blogging Against Disablism Day will be on 1st May, 2010

The advance notice means I have a prayer of participating this year (though it remains highly unlikely).