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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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From Inclusion to Justice: Disability, Ministry, and Congregational Leadership

From Inclusion to Justice: Disability, Ministry, and Congregational Leadership

Raffety, Erin

Paperback

Series: Studies in Religion, Theology, and Disability

General ChristianityGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 148131694X
ISBN13: 9781481316941
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Published: Sep 1 2022
Pages: 238
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.91 Depth: 8.74
Language: English

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 policies, programs, and curricula geared toward including disabled people while still maintaining able-bodied theologies, ministries, care, and leadership. Ableism--not a lack of ramps, finances, or accessible worship--is the biggest obstacle for disabled ministry in America. In From Inclusion to Justice, Erin Raffety argues that what our churches need is not more programs for disabled people but rather the pastoral tools to repent of able-bodied theologies and practices, listen to people with disabilities, lament ableism and injustice, and be transformed by God's ministry through disabled leadership. Without a paradigm shift from ministries of inclusion to ministries of justice, our practical theology falls short.

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