Written by C. Walton Giddy
Westminster/John Knox Press
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Written by Lillian V. Grisham
This book presents a first person account of Lillian Grisham’s experience with a five-year period of depression.
An Annotated Bibliography Compiled by the Health and Welfare Ministries Program Department, United Methodist Church
Comments closedUCC Disabilities Ministries has published many excellent, but largely under-utilized, resources. The following is a brief description of these resources:
Comments closedWritten by Harold H. Wilke Publisher: Abingdon Press (February 2002) ISBN:0687072840 Lively Memories of Embracing God’s World.
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.
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