Category: disability studies
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Employment and Blindness in the U.S.
What should we do about “dones,” “nones,” and church-skippers? Should we treat them as wayward souls who should be won back to the church, give them lectures about why their decision is wrong? That is exactly what Carey Nieuwhof has done in a response to Christians who are done with church. Why Attitude Matters Nieuwhof…
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Thoughts on John Chapter 9
I have received several emails and messages asking for my thoughts about John chapter 9, in which Jesus heals a man born blind. The entire chapter is included in this week’s readings from the Revised Common Lectionary along with Ephesians 5:8-14, in which Paul urges people to “live as children of light … for the…
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About Those Special Needs
The term “special needs” was once considered proper academic etiquette for writing about people with disabilities. It is now a dirty word. Here is an example of the reasoning: The way I get what I want and need might be different or I might need a bit of help along the way. It is still…
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On Beauty and Descriptions
Makeup. It was supposed to be an exciting thing. All my peers at school talked about it–all day long. Even my blind mentors went on and on about why I should care about it: it would make me attractive and people would want to be around me. I reacted to this bribery with great doubt.…
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On Blindness and Relationships
I often hear that sighted people don’t know how to talk with someone who is different from them. … This is not something I am necessarily skilled at either. I have had to learn how as I have lived my life in community with many people who are different from myself, including my own family.…