Here are the highlights of postings the last two weeks 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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DHM/UMCD
- DeafLink: International Day of Persons with Disabilities
- BBC: The
BSL project stretching back 2000 years
- AI Media: Deaf Art Christmas card
- God's Hands: Merry
Christmas
- Deaf Link: Colombo Deaf community Christmas get together
- Osprey Observer: Do
you hear what I hear?
- God's Hands: Let there
be peace on earth
DMC
- Journal of Philosophy of Disability: 2022 issue
- Ableism in the Media recording
- Reeve Foundation for Axios: Assistance beyond ADA is needed
- UMComm: When Christmas is blue
- Angela Van Etten: Disabled caught in homeless crisis
- Plough: Inheriting mental illness
- Bloom: Life is worth living in all sorts of bodies and minds
- Modern Church: Disability and God's Justice
- Cordico: Scars--the legacy of a firefighting career
- SBS: Lego ramp-builder
- The Arc: Medicaid portability
- Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette: Faith
UMC, Little Rock, inclusive playground
Events
- January 6: Housing
Options for the Disability Community (BWC Conference
accessibility conversation)
- January 15: ITD Workshop and Discussion Proposals due
- January 17: Indiana Disability Justice, The Voices of Systemic Ableism
- February 3: Rebooting
Our Mental Health (BWC Conference accessibility
conversation)
- February 2023: The Church’s Ministry with Dementia, Pre-register
now
- June 26-29, 2023: Institute on Theology & Disability, Waco TX
- August 6-11, 2023: UMCD/ELM Red Bird Mission
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