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The atonement—where God in Jesus Christ addresses sin and the whole of the human predicament—lies at the heart of the Christian faith and life. Its saving power is for all people, …
Time is central to all that humans do. Time structures days, provides goals, shapes dreams - and limits lives. Time appears to be tangible, real, and progressive, but, in the end, …
Baptism offers the distinctive practice of Christian initiation, rooted in Jesus' own baptism, ministry, death, and resurrection. Too often, however, people with intellectual …
Crippled Grace combines disability studies, Christian theology, philosophy, and psychology to explore what constitutes happiness and how it is achieved. The virtue tradition …
Human disability raises the hardest questions of human existence and leads directly to the problem of causality—the underlying intuition that someone, divine or human, must have …
Disability and spirituality have traditionally been understood as two distinct spheres: disability is physical and thus belongs to health care professionals, while spirituality is …
Religion plays a critical role in determining how disability is understood and how persons with disabilities are treated. Examining the world's religions through the lens of …
Joy, pain, celebration, and grief are constant companions on the journey of caregiving. While remaining detached might seem the preferable option, it is not possible to disentangle …
American Christianity tends to view disabled persons as problems to be solved rather than people with experiences and gifts that enrich the church. Churches have generated …
Madness is a sin. Those with emotional disabilities are shunned. Mental illness is not the church's problem.All three claims are wrong.In Madness, Heather H. Vacek traces the …