Nancy Eiesland (NYT Tribute)

March 22, 2009

Nancy Eiesland Is Dead at 44; Wrote of a Disabled God
By DOUGLAS MARTIN

By the time the theologian and sociologist Nancy Eiesland was 13 years old, she had had 11 operations for the congenital bone defect in her hips and realized pain was her lot in life. So why did she say she hoped that when she went to heaven she would still be disabled?

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