Humiliation is as stealthy and subtle as dust entering a house. It comes from outside a Person with Disabilities (PWD). However, attitudinal humiliation from others experienced in a fragile moment can turn inward. As self-humiliation, it clogs the spirit with life-defeating feelings of shame, failure, lack of dignity, and shaky self-worth or self-respect.
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Reading the Signs columns are written by members of the Nebraska Conference Disabilities Ministries Board. They are offered for use in Conference and Local Church newsletters as an accessibility tool. Permission to print given by Nebraska Conference newsletter editor of The Nebraska Record.
1. Apply brightly colored, textured strips at tops of stairs to indicate their presence to visually-impaired persons and anyone carrying something that blocks vision.
Comments closedIn our new church this year, I was approached by a member before Easter: Do Easter lilies bother you? No more than my beloved daffodils on Daffodil Sunday. Don’t worry about it. The headache and nausea would only last a day.
Comments closedWritten by the Rev. Nancy J. Erickson, December 2003
St. Monica’s Chemical Dependency Service for Women, Lincoln
The backdrop for discussion is Leviticus 21:16-23. I suggest you read this paradigm which has informed church policies and even some religious beliefs for hundreds of years.
Comments closed“We don’t think our way into new ways of acting; we act our way into new ways of thinking.” – Harold Wilke (1914-2003)
Comments closedA review by the Rev. Nancy Erickson, Associate Pastor at First Plymouth, Lincoln, Nebraska. Nancy also is a member of the Nebraska Conference Disabilities Task Force.
When I first saw The Disabled God: Toward a Liberatory Theology of Disability on a bookstore shelf, I was momentarily taken aback. It was the adjective “disabled” in front of “God” that did it. I am not used to the holy described in terms like that.
Comments closedThis is an “It’s About Time” project that will enable users of manual wheelchairs to slip into the bath house with ease and to negotiate cabin entry with neither sweat nor snarl.
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