{"id":1780,"date":"2012-02-14T14:51:24","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T19:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thinplaces\/?p=1780"},"modified":"2012-02-14T14:51:24","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T19:51:24","slug":"people-with-disabilities-at-the-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thinplaces\/2012\/02\/people-with-disabilities-at-the-center\/","title":{"rendered":"People with Disabilities at the Center . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

There are weeks when I can\u2019t help but write blogposts, and then there are weeks when my brain is too frazzled to put two sentences together. This week is one of the latter. William has had a fever. We have a new babysitter. Peter stayed home sick yesterday too. We\u2019re gearing up for Penny\u2019s surgery. So I haven\u2019t been able to come up with anything interesting to say about Valentine\u2019s Day or Whitney Houston (not that you would expect me to say anything about Whitney Houston\u2026)<\/p>\n

Thankfully, I forgot to tell you all about a book review I had in Christianity Today this month (Strength in Weakness: The Bible, Disability, and the Church<\/a>) in which I review Amos Yong\u2019s new book, The Bible, Disability, and the Church<\/a>. It begins:<\/p>\n

From an able-bodied reading of the Bible, it is easy to assume God wants to heal every person with a disability. In the New Testament, every person who encounters Jesus blind, deaf, or lame is restored to health. But theologian Amos Yong wants the church to read the Bible differently, seeing good news for people with disabilities\u00a0as they are<\/em>, and not as God might change them.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0The Bible, Disability, and the Church: A New Vision of the People of God<\/a>(Eerdmans) Yong draws upon his theological training, his Pentecostal<\/a> faith, and his experience as the older brother of Mark, who has Down syndrome, to form an insightful critique of the assumption that disability is inherently negative. He challenges the church not only to reimagine the body of Christ as including people with disabilities, but also to understand these people as central to the church\u2019s mission.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To keep reading, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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