News and notes from AMD, 25 October 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:

• UMC groups welcome proposed 2020 Social Principles statement on disability
  

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AMD

• Random Acts of Expression: October
• Cal-Nev Conference: Donna Fado Ivery's book 
  
• Beckie Writes: My new book...
• Random Acts of Expression: Mystic Realism
• NYT disability series: At risk in the culture of "normal" 
  
• RDS: Disability shame and bodies
• SBL: Negotiating the Disabled Body
  

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DHM/UMCD

• ASL Glossary: Tithe
• Beckie Writes: Accessibility and Deafness/HOH
• Science Daily: Deaf infants attuned to visual cues-ASL
  
• UM Disability blog, Lisa Wirkus: A letter to my other selves
• The Mighty: Mental health treatment for Deaf
• Deaf Link: Awareness seminar
  

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DMC

• NMEDA: Accessible parking spots: Are they all the same?
• DMC: Mental Illness and violence update
• Webinar: Lives and Legacies of People With Intellectual Disability 
• GBCS: Ministry With
• Presbyterians for Disability Concerns: AJB Recommends resources 
  
• CRCNA: Listening to Chris
• USA Today: Veteran suicide and moral injury 
  

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MHM

• It's all I have... it's all I wanted (graphic)
• CBS: Stop the Stigma
  

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