design – Mill Pond Porch

“Equitable Use” of the Gospel | The Principles of Universal Design and the Church

There is no “handicapped access” to the Kingdom… People with disabilities “enter by the same door” as everyone else.

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).