disability – Christy Wilkens

The Best Books on Disability That I Read in 2020

Making sense of the world means reading about what’s going on in my life, so for many years, that’s means books about disability or by disabled writers. Here are a few that helped shape my thinking in 2020, in no particular order.

The Disabled: Modern Missionaries Inside the Church

People with disabilities and their families have an important role to play in the future of the Church. Not as noisome gadflies, but as heralds of a better tomorrow.

Why Jesus Coming in Weakness Matters to Special Needs Families

The Israelites expected the a triumphant king who would cast off their oppression and who could not be defeated. But what they got was a helpless infant, hidden in obscurity, requiring total care.

The death of innocence and the death of innocents

There’s no denying the fact that valuing and respecting all life, including the lives of the disabled, is never the easy or politically expedient thing to do. In fact, it’s usually the most difficult.