News and notes from AMD, 1 March 2019

Here are the highlights of postings this week from the Association of Ministers with Disabilities, Disability Ministries Committee, Mental Health Ministries, Deaf and Hard-of-hearing Ministries Committee, and UM Congress of the Deaf:

Our poets continue to write
https://crippastor.wordpress.com/2019/02/21/provoke/
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The unfinished work of inclusion
https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/the-unfinished-work-of-inclusion/
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Faith and Power
https://www.missionalwisdom.com/julian360/2019/2/24/faith-and-the-power-problem
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Keeping Sabbath and self
https://oboedire.wordpress.com/2019/02/20/here-and-now-sabbath/
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Wheelchair charging stations
https://krtv.com/news/montana-and-regional-news/2019/02/20/montana-state-capitol-installs-first-electric-wheelchair-charging-station/
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Strength to ask for and accept help
https://www.bphope.com/finding-the-strength-to-ask-for-accept-help/
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Resisting evil... employment discrimination
http://www.fox19.com/2019/02/20/walmarts-new-corporate-policy-may-cost-man-with-cerebral-palsy-his-job/
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L'Arche: unknowing what you've learned
https://grandinmedia.ca/larche-place-start-unknow-youve-learned-society/
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Discussing disability (Jewish perspective)
http://kolhabirah.com/index.php/features/1818-discussing-disability-nothing-about-us-without-us
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"Suffer the little children"
https://www.startingwithjulius.org.au/suffer-the-little-children/
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Google Live Transcribe app
https://www.umdeaf.org/hoh/
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The importance of early detection
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/deaf-children-begin-processing-information-differently-infancy
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