Originally posted on Mill Pond Porch:
This is the concluding post of a series… If you haven’t been tracking along, I’d encourage you to go back to the start and read them in sequence, since they do build one upon another… It seems pretty clear to me that most, if not all, of us, whatever…

Originally posted on Mill Pond Porch:
It’s been taking me a while to get these posts out here, but they really do string together, and I will complete the series with the next one. The “argument,” such as it is, started with a bit of “deconstruction”: First, Disability is NOT something that is inherent in…

Originally posted on Mill Pond Porch:
We are convinced that “disability” is not a matter of something being “wrong” with the body and mind of a person we would label as “disabled.” But, all the same, it’s misleading to think that “everybody is disabled” in one way or another. Differences are real – but “disability”…

Originally posted on Mill Pond Porch:
We were sharing last time about our conviction that disability is NOT a matter of “something being wrong” with certain people, or certain bodies or brains. There is one other expression that I’ve often heard shared, frequently by very good-hearted people, that I believe needs to be challenged: Namely, it…

Originally posted on Mill Pond Porch:
I have shared, posted about, blogged on and advocated for the proposition that “disability ministry” must not be seen as “optional equipment” on the “vehicle” of the church, but that it is essential to the church BEING (and becoming) the Church. I want to take some time to develop…

It’s easy to treat time as just another commodity… we’re well trained to do it. We’re always seem to be fighting for it and with it. Time rules us and dictates the nature and shape of our lives and our relationships.