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No Steps to Heaven – Harold H. Wilke

“No Steps to Heaven” begins:

The 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,”

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Mainstreaming the Alienated: The Church Responds to the “New” Minority – Harold H. Wilke

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.

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