March 2016 – Mill Pond Porch

Marginal – Marked off and marked down | “I see a Church with no disabled people” – 4

These barriers of attitude and economy, of structure and power – which “we the normal” have constructed, cementing them with “normalization” of ourselves and our own horizons of ability – not only push people with disabilities to the margin… they serve to keep them there – to keep them away.

Covering self-interest with “spiritual principles” | Questions Jesus Asked – 12

Which of you who has a sheep that falls into a pit on the Sabbath will not take hold of it and lift it out? (Matt 12:11) An argument is set off when the Pharisees observe Jesus and his followers walking through a field of grain, picking, husking, and eating kernels as they go….