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Looking for Loopholes | Thinking About Justice 5

Today’s “theological liberalism” doesn’t oppose conservatism. It opposes JUSTICE.

What’s Love Got to Do with It? | Thinking about Justice, Part 4

Honoring the dignity of your neighbor expresses love for him. Rightly esteeming the worth of your neighbor is justice.

Redemption and Disturbing Mission | Thinking about Justice, Part 3

Worshipping God while remaining complicit in a system that, by its very nature, devalues God’s image bearers, makes him into a ‘tribal deity.’

What’s It (or He or She) Worth? Thinking about Justice, Part 1

Satan has claimed and is claiming the minds, the bodies the souls of millions of God’s image bearers. He slaps labels on them, labels that he feels devalue them, that enable him to score them on the cheap, to say “They are mine, Game Over,” drop them into his sack and head off looking for more.

Living without disability | “I see a church with no disabled people – 6”

When we cease to participate in the marginalizing nature of this world of ours, “disability” melts away and there is only “difference.” And in THIS body, difference is valued, because we all – every blessed one of us – have meaning, purpose, significance, value.

Who do you love? | Questions Jesus Asked – 13

“If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you?” (Luke 6) Jesus continues… For even sinners love those who love them. If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. If you lend to those from whom you…

Disability as contextual | ‘I see a church with no disabled people’ – 5

How we attach the label “disabled” is influenced by context. Changing the context can change reality.

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.