News and notes from AMD, 17 January 2020

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:

• Be A Disciple Certification in Ministry with People with Disabilities
  
• Two polls from the creator behind the "Life of a PWD" cartoons that we sometimes feature. No personal information is collected, and only aggregate results will be shared... or inform a drawing. First survey, preferred terms; second survey, challenges.

AMD

• Random Acts of Expression: Just Waters
• NYT disability: Nazi eugenics
• Disability Justice Ontario: Access washing
• Random Acts of Expression: For a dull winter day
• Be A Disciple: Caring for first responders
• Duke University Research Workshops on Spirituality and Health
  

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DHM/UMCD

• OSX: Using AirPods as hearing aids
• Marlee Martin: Captioning on aircraft
• Deaf Ministry of Lovers Lane: 20th anniversary celebration
• Dallas Colloquy at Lovers Lane: Bishop Mande Muyombo
  

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DMC

• Vox: We don't need more gadgets--just ramps
• BioLogos: Down syndrome and the image of God
• Darya Jones: Life on the spectrum
• Forbes: Four ways to understand diversity of the disability community
• DMC: Hymns evaluation update
• Deaf Link: Sri Lanka mainstream training
  

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MHM

• corrected link: UCC Mental Health Network Mind, Body Spirit
• Faith is seeing...
• Winter meditation
  

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