News and notes from AMD, 24 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:
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AMD

• NYT disability: Another disaster in the making
• Blog: If you knew him, you loved him
• Boston College: Hidden in plain sight
• NCIL: Protect SS disability
• Random Acts of Expression: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
• WSJ: Churches struggle with mental health in the ranks
• Random Acts of Expression: 17 on the 17th
• Beckie Writes: Me Too Reckoning review
  

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DHM/UMCD

• Christ Deaf UMC: worship video
• Deaf News Today: Recognizing ASL in Nebraska
• YouTube: I have a dream speech in ASL
• Hopes&Fears: ASL Internet slang
• Living with hearing loss: An in-person meeting
• Hearing health: cats to help you hear
• Ohio State: Six methods of microphone avoidance
• Fast Company: Jeenie ASL app
• DHM at GC briefing session
  

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DMC

• Disabled Christianity: Stop blaming
• WKRC: We don't rent to people like you
• CRC: Living with blindness
• Autism Pastor: Learning from the disability community
• In the Loop: Ableist history of the puzzle piece
• Hadassah Magazine: disability issue
• Badger Herald: Lifelong support and adults with autism
  

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MHM

• MLK day
• Winter 2020 Spotlight
  

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