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Category Archives: Seminaries/ Seminarians
Denver Theatre: Student’s Advocacy Abounds
Kevin Pettit, a theology student at Iliff Seminary in Denver, has been involved in PHAMALY, the Physically Handicapped Actors and Musical Artists League (www.phamaly.org) for the last four years.
“I am more proud of this company than almost anyt
hing I have done,” he said. Theology is Pettit’s second career. His first, as a physics professor, was cut short by an accident that caused serious brain damage.
View an ABC’s World News Tonight video clip of and commentary on the theatre company’s present production, “The Man of La Mancha,” at http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex??id=8327964.
Inclusive Language Resource
Refer in particular to
Chapter 1 Terms for God
Chapter 2 Other Religious Terms
Chapter 3 Emerging Terms and Bias-Free Usage
Chapter 4 Trademarks and Brand Names
Chapter 5 Alphabetized Word List
See entire style sheet at I was a minister code blue I was a minister “Why would God?’ I was a minister now my body is broken Am I a minister? Some days I cannot remember but what was that bit I am a minister I heard my call Deb Smith retains copyrights for her poetry. Bio__Deb Smith graduated from PSR and was ordained in 1984. I spent most of my career as a chaplain in physical, psch, and chem dependency hospitals, but was also a Licensed social worker and pastoral counselor. I started getting tired about 16 years ago, but my energy has always been so high. I just figured it was overwork. Ten years ago I had to leave a doctoral program in psychology and religion after my first year, due to constant illness and fatigue. For years (two of them bedbound), I had a diagnosis of “yes, you’re sick, but your tests are fine.” This is important, A friend with a visible disablity since childhood talks about having to convince people she could do things;I have to convince people I can’t do things, as my disabilities are invisible. I miss respect, am occasionally considerdes lazy, viewed with contempt or having a “vacation.” My dog and cat love me as I am an I am determined to get well enought to contribue to society and to have some FUN.
Posted in Accessibility/Inclusion, Conference/Association, Guides, Local Church, Print Publications, Seminaries/ Seminarians
Calling
hand aching from the grip of
mother or sister, “chaplain,oh,
chaplain”
my self embodying the
grasp for hope
in a place where words
are never enough
“Why did God?’
“I must be bad, go away .”
I go and I return.
No pat answers.
Just this odd woman of God
willing to ride out the storm.
and I must buy it
buy that my will alone cannot
drive me to
Work harder
stay longer
be the best, oh,yes
my phone number
and the tasks of survival
occupy me
I am too weak to work
too weak to drive
too weak
too weak
about “treasure in clay jars”
cracked pots
crackpot, certainly
it was not a mistake
I cannot do
and so I stand quiet
clutching shattered Grace
in both my hands,
listening ,again,
for that Voice
because I could not apply for social security disability without a specific diagnosis.Atypical hypothyroidism was finally settled on. The meds got me out of bed, but not functional. I have adrenal insuffeciency, gluten intolerance, fibromyalgia CFIDS, chronic Epstien-Barr.
Workshop at Pacific School of Religion
The Disabled Congregant: Issues of Mercy & Justice for Church Leaders
~a workshop at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley California~
The DisAbled Student Union at Pacific School of Religion will hold a workshop titled: The DisAbled Congregant: Issues of Mercy and Justice for Church Leaders. The workshop, open to all students at Pacific School of Religion and the surrounding community in the San Francisco Bay Area of California will be on campus on Wednesday, April 18, 2007 from 3:00 to 5:00 PM, The Seely G. Mudd Building, Room 100.
PSR seminary’s address:
1798 Le Scenic Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94709-1323
(north of the UC Berkeley campus)
Description of workshop:
This is a two-hour workshop. Presenters: DASU members who are Pacific School of Religion seminarians. This Contextual Education program has approved this workshop for PSR students needing to witness Contextual Education events as a requirement for academic programs such as the Masters of Divinity degree.
DASU members will speak of the Christian spiritual calling to minister to the disabled. They will further speak of the California state and Federal civil rights laws for people who have been medically and legally declared to be physically and/or mentally disabled.
Several DASU students will tell their own stories of physical disabilities that are from accidents, genetic conditions and diseases as well as mental disabilities, often called “hidden disabilities.â€
DASU Mission Statement:
The DisAbled Student Union at Pacific School of Religion exists to educate, advocate for and support all God’s people concerning issues of disability.
DASU website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PSRDASU/
Contact information:
Contact tJohn A. Lowell at jxlowell@covad.net or phone 415-533-7857.
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