The gospel addresses all people, and we are committed to making the gospel accessible to all people. This serves as a strong motivation to have the church’s “design processes” reflect these realities.
How to design a house of prayer for all people? Universal Design and the Church: 3
Don’t look at the way you do things now as “normal.” Because there is no “standard format” for Jesus-followers, normal in the Body may be a lot different than “normal for us.”
Designing “to the norm” doesn’t feel like design at all. Universal Design and the Church: 2
This is where “ableism” originates: “we” establish “ourselves” as “normal” – and having done so, what works (for “us”) works. Period. “Others” are not in view, because they are, by definition, “exceptions.”
I’m no “designer,” I’m just a regular person in ministry… Universal Design and the Church: 1
When it is in our power to apply universal design or to make reasonable accommodations and we fail to do so, we are committing disability discrimination. And James wrote, “If you know the good you ought to do and don’t do it, you sin” (James 4:17).
Living without disability | “I see a church with no disabled people – 6”
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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…
Disability as contextual | ‘I see a church with no disabled people’ – 5
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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…
Marginal – Marked off and marked down | “I see a Church with no disabled people” – 4
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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”…
Who or what “disables” people with disabilities? | “I see a church with no disabled people” Part 3
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We’ve been taking on a couple of prevalent ideas about disability: first, that it’s a problem that involves certain individuals’ brains and/or bodies and secondly, that “we’re all disabled” in one form or another. Yes, everyone is different. And no one is able to be or do everything they…
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