Pub Date : 2022-07-11DOI: 10.1080/23312521.2022.2097151
J. Chism
Abstract Harriet Tubman’s life has attracted the attention of disability scholars because she suffered from a disability while serving on the Underground Railroad. In this paper, I utilize historical and ethical methods to grapple with an ethical quandary in a small portion of her narrative, particularly her authoritarian rule regarding shooting weakened fugitive slaves who considered returning to slavery. Was Tubman, a former slave who had been abused by slaveholders, being insensitive toward feeble fugitive slaves under her direction? Was her threat inconsequential in lieu of her overall abolitionist feats and since she never shot anyone and was ultimately effective at leading passengers to freedom? While Tubman pragmatically employed the threat of violence to help lead enslaved Blacks to freedom, her rule to shoot weakened fugitive slaves who turned back problematically condoned corporal punishment, an assimilationist method slaveholders employed to control Blacks and to whip and shape them according to their will. Because Tubman employed the threat of violence to inspire weakened runaways to keep moving forward and not return to slavery parallels many African American Christian parents’ affirmation of whipping Black youth to deter them from going down the wrong paths and from succumbing to the criminal justice system in our 21st-century society where white supremacy looms large, I consider the ethical lessons African American parents, especially of disabled children, can learn from this challenging part of her narrative.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-20DOI: 10.1080/23312521.2022.2087824
Kevin D. O'Farrell
Evangelical, western-based mission agencies typically discourage people with disabilities from serving in global missions. They say the Kingdom of God is rapidly advancing, so there is no time to slow down or care for missionaries who cannot keep up. Disability in Mission counters this common disposition by arguing that the Missio Dei operates by different values that elevate people with disabilities as leaders on the mission field: God values interdependence, not self-sufficiency; faith, not ingenuity; weakness, not strength; faithfulness, not effectiveness. God works most powerfully through human weakness, and who embodies human weakness quite like people with disabilities? The contributors to this edited volume argue that disability is not a distraction from mission, but a powerful means for God to transform missionaries, mission agencies, and the communities they serve. Disability is an invitation to surrender the false idol of the self-sufficient missionary. “Mission,” as one contributor writes, “is a life laid down” (p. 53). The contributors come from different countries, minister in different cultures, and have different relationships to disability. Some contributors have disabilities, some have children with disabilities, and others simply sense God’s call to live and minister with people with disabilities. What binds the contributors together is the common experience of God’s power in disability and the call to mission work on their own lives. Their shared experience forms their biblical and theological reflections, allowing the volume to have a unified voice and message. This unity in message from various contributors is one of the volume’s core strengths. One of the chapters that best captures this message is Dave Deuel’s narration of Paul Kasonga’s life and ministry (pp. 73-81). Kasonga was from the Lambas people in current day Zambia. After his conversion as a teenager, he contracted leprosy which resulted in many disabilities that remained until his death in 1954. Nevertheless, Kasonga was a prolific writer, Bible translator, and minister who served others in to all people regardless of abilities. For lay Christians, this book would ground their perspectives biblically concerning why people with disabilities need to be included in the Church. I would have preferred more practical handles for how lay people might partner with fellow brothers and sisters with disabilities to feel welcomed and stay rooted in their local church community. Other than that, I warmly recommend this book as a compelling introduction and guide to anyone on the journey of inclusion of people with disabilities within a church community.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-07DOI: 10.1080/23312521.2022.2078758
Madeline Fowler, Jehanne M. Gheith
Abstract Discrimination and exclusion have been associated with mental health issues for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. This mixed-methods study examines the impact of Reality Ministries (RM), a Christian community center open to all abilities and faiths, on participants’ views toward disability and mental health. Semi-structured interviews were administered to 32 RM community members. Results associate participation in RM with greater disability acceptance, lower loneliness, higher self-esteem and mental wellbeing, more and closer friendships, and higher participation in personally meaningful activities. Findings support the importance of a community of belonging for the wellbeing of people with and without disabilities.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-31DOI: 10.1080/23312521.2022.2078765
J. Bennett
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Pub Date : 2022-05-28DOI: 10.1080/23312521.2022.2078760
Jorge López González
Abstract The reflections in this article answer two related questions. First, is perfection compatible with the “imperfection” of being vulnerable? Second, what role does vulnerability play in the Christian educational paradigm? To address these questions, the concept of vulnerability will be discussed. Then the concept of perfection will be discussed, from the perspective of Christian theology. Lastly, brush strokes of a Christian educational proposal will be offered, that incorporates vulnerability into the classical educational paradigm (paideia) of virtue education. If we consider perfection as communion, then vulnerability does not represent an obstacle to perfection but the condition for flourishing. Vulnerability as an expression of affectivity is not deprivation but perfection. The Christian educational model supposes a correction and improvement of the Greek educational model.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-28DOI: 10.1080/23312521.2022.2078762
Taylor G. Petrey
Candida Moss’s Divine Bodies provides fresh, provocative close readings of biblical texts and says something genuinely new about its topic. The book is readable for a non-specialist, but the footnotes still ground the specialists in the relevant scholarly bibliography. Further, Moss is able to make insightful contributions and to signal where her biggest contributions lie without chastising other scholars. crucial
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Pub Date : 2022-05-24DOI: 10.1080/23312521.2022.2078763
Kevin Chow
{"title":"Enabling Communities: Bible Studies on Including People with Disabilities in Church—Facilitator’s Guide","authors":"Kevin Chow","doi":"10.1080/23312521.2022.2078763","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23312521.2022.2078763","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38120,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Disability and Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89725273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-05-23DOI: 10.1080/23312521.2022.2078761
A. Masters
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Pub Date : 2022-05-20DOI: 10.1080/23312521.2022.2078764
Joanna Leidenhag
{"title":"Autism and the Church: Bible, Theology, and Community","authors":"Joanna Leidenhag","doi":"10.1080/23312521.2022.2078764","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23312521.2022.2078764","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38120,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Disability and Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90758799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-05-20DOI: 10.1080/23312521.2022.2078766
Joanna Ong Oon Jeu
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