The Rev. David C. Johnston Library Bequest
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The Mental Illness Network, UCC, gathered in Hartsburg, Missouri, prior to General Synod (2001).
Comments closedUCCDM and MIN Exhibit Hall Booths
Captioned with the theme, “It’s About Time,” a three part display with “Yesterday” a tribute to Rev. Virginia Kreyer. “Today,” illustrated with photos showing UCCDM volunteer activities, and “Tomorrow,” showing the vision for
Comments closed“No Steps to Heaven” begins:
Comments closedThe scene is upper Manhattan, Broadway at Reinhold Niebuhr Place, Union Theological Seminary. Union’s president, Donald Shriver, walks jauntily down the steps to the bustling street and sits down in a wheelchair brought for the experiment, thus putting himself in the place of a student with a handicap. Gazing up from his wheelchair at that imposing entrance and those five insurmountable steps, he says, “OK, carry me in,â€
Written by Harold H. Wilke
“We have a history of keeping people ‘out of sight, out of mind.'”
“Even more people are becoming alienated, and ever more of them are coming out into the open.”
“They are part of our society, not apart from it. More sharply than ever before, the idea of “mainstreaming†— keeping persons who differ from the norm within the main current of social life — is becoming a part of Western thinking.
Comments closedWritten by Virginia Kreyer Story of the clergy woman with a disability who set the United Church of Christ Disabilities Ministries into motion in 1977.…
Comments closedA Memorial to Dr. Wilke from UCC DM
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