Edited by Diane Driedger and Susan Gray This unprecedented collection of writings from seventeen countries discloses the world each of these women face, a world…
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This seventy-eight page manual addresses attitudinal and architectural access in inclusive and helpful way.
Comments closedAuthor: Dallas (Dee) A. Brauninger Publisher/Date: Lima, Ohio: CSS Publishing Company, 1994 ISBN: 0-7880-0099-3 Inclusive, multi-generational worship resource for Advent/Christmas Eve. Connecting past with the…
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 closedUCC Disabilities Ministries has published many excellent, but largely under-utilized, resources. The following is a brief description of these resources:
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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