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Category: Reading the Signs

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.

Attitudinal Accessibility – Attitudes of Affirmation

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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Chemical Sensitivity

In 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.

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The Disabled God

A 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.

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