A Reading the Signs column by Jeane Tyler
“We have something to say. We want to be heard. Communication is what a church is about.
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A can-do forum about accessibility for the whole church family
“Today, I knew what was happening. It was like a Thanksgiving song,” Sherryl Yokel’s voice greeted her pastor. Later, Mrs. Yokel added, “I feel more comfortable in church now. I understand the [choir’s] songs and what Bob says.”
Comments closedJanet Rieck is a vision consultant from Albion, Nebraska Youngsters with vision impairment are simply youngsters whose perspective is a little different. To a child…
Comments closedThe Rev. Dr. Dosia Carlson, a member of the wider United Church of Christ Disabilities Ministries community and a recipient of the United Church of…
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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