Souls in the Hands of a Tender God is a beautifully written, highly readable, inspiring book, authored by the Rev. Dr. Craig Rennebohm, a United Church of Christ Pastor and Chaplain.
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Category Archives: Clergy With Disabilities
Mosaic Series – In God’s Image – “A Patchwork Quilt”
Written by the Rev. Virginia Kreyer
Cannot we, persons with disabilities, nondisabilities, people of color, and persons from different cultures, compare our lives to a patchwork quilt?
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Mosaic Series – In God’s Image – “I Could Come Home”
Written by the Rev. Jeanne Tyler
The question of justice is one of exclusion.
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Mosaic Series – In God’s Image – “Tools of the Trade”
Written by the Rev. Dallas Dee Brauninger
The attitude was different the first day I entered that gathering room with a mobility cane.
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Mosaic Series – In God’s Image – “Treasure in Earthen Vessels”
Written by the Rev. Doris R. Powell
I WAS THIRTY-TWO. I’d just been backpacking in Colorado and was painting my house when I began to experience mysterious symptoms: swelling and pain in my hands, then an elbow, soon my shoulders, knees, and ankles. I went to work swathed in ace bandages. Within two months, I’d been diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis.
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Encountering the Disabled God
Reprinted from The Other Side
Written by Nancy Eiesland
I have been part of several congregations whose practice of receiving Eucharist includes filing to the front of the sanctuary and kneeling at the communion rail. Often, because I am either in a wheelchair or using crutches, an usher alerts me that I need not go forward for the Eucharist. Instead, I am offered the sacrament at my seat after everyone else has been served.
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Letter to Daniel M
A Sermon
Dear Dee,
I read your article in your denominational newspaper. I was stunned by your statement about Harold Wilke. You said, “I learned from Dr. Wilke that wholeness has little to do with the body.” I was wondering if you could elaborate this for me.
Daniel M
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