News and notes from AMD, DHM/UMCD, DMC - 1 July 2022

Here are the highlights of postings this week from the Association of Ministers with Disabilities, Disability Ministries Committee, Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Ministries Committee, and UM Congress of the Deaf. Please note that many posts have additional comments and discussion which will not be reflected in these links.

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• Scripture As I Understand it: Psalm 77
• UMCD and AMD: Episcopal elections
  

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DHM/UMCD

• DeafBlind Awareness Week: personal safety
• DOOR: summer newsletter
• Oprah Daily: Lauren Ridloff and Deaf actors
• ELDA Conference
• ELDA: Pope Francis and sign language
• DRA: HR accessibility for Deaf
  

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DMC

• Stairs that fold into a lift
• SAWS Virginia at Art of Aging Expo
• Presbyterian Outlook: True Accessibility
• Faith & Leadership: Dementia ministry at UMC serves as model
• CRC Disability: Breaking Barriers, Spring 2022
• Seen and Heard, IDD Community
• Reeve Foundation: Ugly Laws
• Surviving Church: Demons and Mental Illness
• RNS: The Pope and ableism
  

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Events

• July 7: Stone Belt ARC, What is Ableism?
• July 14, Healing and Wholeness in the Bible and in Our Church
  
• September 22: D&P Forum, Disability and Economic Justice
• June 26-29, 2023: Institute on Theology & Disability, Waco TX
  
• Covid-19 list of inclusion resources

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