Every household should have a copy of Treasuring God in Our Traditions by Noel Piper. Yes, there is a chapter on Christmas, which is very good and helpful. But I recommend it for other reasons. Our cancer period had days when it was hard to pray with the children over something as simple as meals. [...]
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Disability, Disease and Treasuring God
Posted in Book Commentary, Helpful things on December 6, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The Works of God on Facebook
Posted in News on December 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If you have a Facebook account, you can now also access The Works of God on a Facebook fan page by clicking here or by searching for The Works of God fan page. Nothing fancy or extra (at least not yet), just the content from this blog.
I’m guessing I would have made signs with them
Posted in Scripture on December 4, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Zechariah questioned Gabriel and was struck mute until his son, John the Baptist, was born. Luke 1:5-25 Zechariah was mute, not deaf. Yet “they made signs. . .inquiring what he wanted him to be called” after John was born. Luke 1:62 And that makes me wonder – what foolish things do I do around people [...]
December 3 is International Day of Persons with Disabilities
Posted in News on December 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The United Nations has thus declared it so. You can read about it here. The UN is good at creating statements and ‘conventions’ and special days. But it generally doesn’t add up to much, as noted in August when the United States signed on to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. [...]
World Council of Churches Statement on Disability
Posted in commentary, Scripture on December 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The World Council of Churches interim statement on disability, written in 2003, might be the longest I’ve seen so far from a religious group. There is much here that is commendable. There is much that is troublesome. So, to help me when I read things like this, I look for how they deal with sin. [...]
Google to Caption YouTube Videos
Posted in News on December 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Somehow I missed this article from a couple of weeks ago that Google will be captioning YouTube videos, starting with a few specific sites and then adding more sites over time. I don’t have any idea how many deaf people read English, but this seems like a good thing. And videos that are captioned into [...]
Registration open for Desiring God’s Conference The Works of God: God’s Good Design in Disability on November 8
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A Time When Courts Valued Human Life
Posted in commentary on December 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In 1964 a woman contracted rubella while pregnant. Her child was born with significant disabilities. The parents of that child sued the doctor, alleging both ‘wrongful birth’ and ‘wrongful life’ based on what they alleged was the doctor’s negligence. In other words, if they had known more, they would have aborted their child and now [...]
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