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"God also is definitely still speaking at Eden Theological Seminary," Ryan Mathews said when telling about a new course offered at the seminary that will explore injustice, inhumanity, and institutional ableism.

"Disability Justice and Spiritual Health: On the Road to Dismantle Ableism in Faith-Based Practice," will address Godâ€™s mission of healing, wholeness and reconciliation in the church and in the world.

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Mathews, a second-year Eden seminarian who also serves on the UCC DM board of directors, noted that one of the co-teachers is a person with a mobility disability.

The course will be taught by the Rev. Dr. Marilyn Stavenger, Eden Professor Emerita of Field Education and the Practice of Ministry and Dr. Karen Hagrup, Assistant Professor, University of Missouri-St. Louis College of Education.

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Refer in particular to Chapter 1 Terms for God Chapter 2 Other Religious Terms Chapter 3 Emerging Terms and Bias-Free Usage Chapter 4 Trademarks and Brand Names Chapter 5 Alphabetized Word List See entire style sheet at From ELCA Publishing Standards Manual copyright (c) 2003 Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Reproduced by permission of Augsburg Fortress.

“Calling” - (05/08/2007)

I was a minister code blue hand aching from the grip of mother or sister, "chaplain,oh, chaplain" my self embodying the grasp for hope in a place where words are never enough I was a minister "Why would God?' "Why did God?' "I must be bad, go away ." I go and I return. No pat answers. Just this odd woman of God willing to ride out the storm. I was a minister now my body is broken and I must buy it buy that my will alone cannot drive me to Work harder stay longer be the best, oh,yes Am I a minister? Some days I cannot remember my phone number and the tasks of survival occupy me I am too weak to work too weak to drive too weak too weak but what was that bit about "treasure in clay jars" cracked pots crackpot, certainly I am a minister I heard my call it was not a mistake I cannot do and so I stand quiet clutching shattered Grace in both my hands, listening ,again, for that Voice Deb Smith retains copyrights for her poetry. Bio__Deb Smith graduated from PSR and was ordained in 1984. I spent most of my career as a chaplain in physical, psch, and chem dependency hospitals, but was also a Licensed social worker and pastoral counselor. I started getting tired about 16 years ago, but my energy has always been so high. I just figured it was overwork. Ten years ago I had to leave a doctoral program in psychology and religion after my first year, due to constant illness and fatigue. For years (two of them bedbound), I had a diagnosis of "yes, you're sick, but your tests are fine." This is important, because I could not apply for social security disability without a specific diagnosis.Atypical hypothyroidism was finally settled on. The meds got me out of bed, but not functional. I have adrenal insuffeciency, gluten intolerance, fibromyalgia CFIDS, chronic Epstien-Barr. A friend with a visible disablity since childhood talks about having to convince people she could do things;I have to convince people I can't do things, as my disabilities are invisible. I miss respect, am occasionally considerdes lazy, viewed with contempt or having a "vacation." My dog and cat love me as I am an I am determined to get well enought to contribue to society and to have some FUN.

Workshop at Pacific School of Religion - (04/17/2007)

The Disabled Congregant: Issues of Mercy & Justice for Church Leaders ~a workshop at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley California~ The DisAbled Student Union at Pacific School of Religion will hold a workshop titled: The DisAbled Congregant: Issues of Mercy and Justice for Church Leaders. The workshop, open to all students at Pacific School of Religion and the surrounding community in the San Francisco Bay Area of California will be on campus on Wednesday, April 18, 2007 from 3:00 to 5:00 PM, The Seely G. Mudd Building, Room 100. PSR seminaryâ€™s address: 1798 Le Scenic Avenue Berkeley, CA 94709-1323 (north of the UC Berkeley campus) Description of workshop: This is a two-hour workshop. Presenters: DASU members who are Pacific School of Religion seminarians. This Contextual Education program has approved this workshop for PSR students needing to witness Contextual Education events as a requirement for academic programs such as the Masters of Divinity degree. DASU members will speak of the Christian spiritual calling to minister to the disabled. They will further speak of the California state and Federal civil rights laws for people who have been medically and legally declared to be physically and/or mentally disabled. Several DASU students will tell their own stories of physical disabilities that are from accidents, genetic conditions and diseases as well as mental disabilities, often called â€œhidden disabilities.â€ DASU Mission Statement: The DisAbled Student Union at Pacific School of Religion exists to educate, advocate for and support all Godâ€™s people concerning issues of disability. DASU website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PSRDASU/ Contact information: Contact tJohn A. Lowell at jxlowell@covad.net or phone 415-533-7857. Post a

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“Theology, Ministry and People with Developmental Disabilities” one-week intensive course to be offered - (02/27/2007)

In January 2008, the Chicago Theological Seminary will be offering a course by Craig Modahl called â€œTheology, Ministry and People with Developmental Disabilities.â€ This course will explore the multiple issues facing people with developmental disabilities. Central to the course will be the implications for ministry on the part of religious leaders and their communities. For more, visit Craig's Comments (#6) on Seminaries and Seminarians in the Networking category of this web site.

Book: The Disabled God: Toward a Liberatory Theology of Disability - (11/21/2006)

By Nancy L. Eiesland, forward by Rebecca S. Chopp, Abingdon Press. Drawing from a variety of social scientists, theologians, and linguists, Nancy Eiesland claims that low social position and status are the primary handicapping conditions among people with disabilities rather than personal failure to "adjust." She then calls for a liberation theology that shifts the definition of the disabled from individuals who "need to adjust" to a minority group who can make both a theological and pastoral contribution.

Seminarians with Disabilities - (11/12/2006)

Tell us about your experiences. How have you approached your seminary about the issues surrounding seminarians with disabilities? What about a theology of disability course at your seminary? Comments invited all around.

Laughing at the Devil by David R. McMahill - (01/22/2003)

After serving twenty-five years in parish ministry, Dave was called as minister for the Eastern Association, Minnesota Conference UCC, in 1995. I have lived with aggressive Crohn's Disease all my adult life. Some manage to control it without surgery and achieve long periods of remission from active symptoms. Others lose their entire intestinal track and must receive all fluids and nutrients intravenously. To date, I have had eleven major surgeries and about a hundred hospitalizations. At age 32, I had my first colostomy surgery. I now have an ileostomy, which has been revised several times. In my twenties with still much bowel remaining, I enjoyed remission and resumed distance running. Some years even later, I could compete in a dozen road races some years. In between, flare-ups brought me close to death. In recent years because of the loss of most intestine, I struggle to avoid dehydration and electrolyte imbalance. Twice,, I have been denied admission to public events. One event was at a 1993 General Synod session. Long ago, I decided not to hand over to this fierce disease *my life, identity, and deep * sense of calling to ordained ministry. A defining moment happened shortly after my first colostomy surgery. While registering at a United Ostomy Association meeting, I noticed the pre-registration name tags of Sue Smith, "ileostomate;" Ray Jones, "urostomate;" Nat Doe, "colostomate." I crossed out "colostomate" on mine and added in tiny print, "Child of God, son, husband, father, brother, minister." Some thought I was just being cute. For me, it was then and remains a deeply important issue. Persons with disabilities should not be defined by what does not work. We are people first. During a recent sabbatical, I started writing a book, tentatively titled, "Laughing at the Devil: Spiritual Resources for Living with Chronic Illness." I began to think systematically about how, despite its great liability, living with Crohn's has become a gift for ministry and how those same gifts might be discovered by others in unique circumstances. We develop these competencies in response to a personal need. Most spiritual resources do not show up ready to use but require considerable shaping and refining. When first emerging, they may collide with something else already in place. Part of my ministry is to assist persons in the course of pastoral conversation to find their own way to one or more of these spiritual resources:

Finding voice in the midst of a powerful, sophisticated medical culture;
Discerning how to receive needed help without losing sense of self;
Listening deeply to others' voices;
Praying when tending to pray cautiously;
Laughing as a medium for experiencing God's grace and mercy;
Seeing the life that God has put in us when all the world sees is disability; and
Recognizing signs of grace and mercy around and within us.

As Eastern Association Minister in the Minnesota Conference, living with this invisible disability also influences how I prepare local church search committees to consider ministerial candidates who may have a disability. Teaching how to read ministerial profiles, I suggest: "Many pastors who live with a disability will talk about their situation in profile item #13, 'Special Factors.' I urge pastors to disclose to search committees a disability that they may have because I think that folks like you will respond well to being trusted with such information. "Even more, I urge pastors who have a disability to let you know how living with that disability has become a gift for ministry. Sometimes pastors who have a disability are afraid to mention it in their profiles for fear that search committees will stop reading, immediately rejecting them. "I encourage you not to do that but rather to focus on each pastor's gifts for ministry. You may find someone with a disability who has discovered and developed incredibly great gifts for ministry out of that disability. Those may be exactly the cluster of gifts for ministry that your church needs." Most search committees take this to heart and genuinely open themselves to considering these gifts for ministry. People will ask questions from spiritual struggles that they suspect I also have encountered. The most common, "Don't you ever wonder why God allowed a disease like this that can be so physically painful and debilitating and socially isolating to happen to you?" I just do not blame God or connect God with the onset of this crummy disease. What does amaze me is the abundance of God's grace and blessing. Over and over it lifts me out of despair, giving me the capacity to see what a blessing my life is by God's grace and to laugh at the devil. From UCC DM Newsletter Archive

UCC Seminaries and Students with Disabilities Questionnaire and Follow-Up - (06/21/2002)

This questionnaire was completed several years ago. Please contact its producer for follow-up information. Produced by Laura-Jean Gilbert.

Dear Reader of the UCC National Committee on Persons with Disabilities Newsletter: Are you, an individual with a disability? Did you attend a UCC seminary? If you answered "Yes" to both these questions, I need your help! This newsletter insert contains a questionnaire that asks questions about the experiences of people who have a disability who attended a UCC-related seminary program. Please take a few minutes to respond to the questionnaire -- take even longer, if you could, to share some of your specific experiences. Your response can be returned through the mail, by FAX, or via e-mail. But I would request that responses be returned by the end of June of this year. If you do not have a disability or, are not a UCC seminary alumnus/a but know someone who fits these categories, please pass this insert and its questionnaire along to them. Responses to this questionnaire will provide data for a study that is looking at the question of whether UCC affiliated or related seminaries are accessible to or discriminatory toward individuals who have a disability. The total study project will become my Ph.D. dissertation in the field of special education administration at Gailaudet University. It will also be shared with the UCC National Committee on Persons with Disabilities and with the Issues on Disabilities and Access (IDA) Taskforce of the Central Atlantic Conference (of which I am a former member). I want to thank both that task force and the National Committee on Persons with Disabilities for their interest and support! And I want to thank you, the readers of this newsletter; for your help! Laura-Jean Gilbert PO Box 424 FAX: (603) 495-0359 Washington, NH 03280 E-mail: ljgilb@aol.com (UCC directly-related and affiliated seminaries: Andover-Newton, Bangor, Chicago, Eden, Evangelical (Puerto Rico), Interdenominational (Atlanta), Hartford, Harvard, Howard, Lancaster, Pacific, Union (N.Y.), United, Vanderbilt, Yale) UCC Seminaries and Students with Disabilities QUESTIONNAIRE The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) "defines an 'individual with a disability' as a person who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities, has a record of such an. Impairment or is regarded as having such an Impairment." If you attended a UCC directly-related or affiliated seminary and you consider yourself to have had a disability that fits the ADA definition when you were a seminary student, please help us by taking time to respond to this questionnaire. You may use additional paper to answer these questions or comment on them.
1. Please indicate the type of disability you have (or had) at the time you were a seminary student: 2. Which UCC seminary did you attend? 3. During what years were you a student? 4. What is your birth date: 5. What degree program were you in? 6. Did you graduate? Yes No Still enrolled 7. When you entered the seminary, what was your career goal? local church ministry teaching pastoral counseling chaplaincy other (please explain) 8. When you applied, did you inform the seminary that you had a disability? - Yes No Don't remember 9. Did you request any special accommodation related to your disability when you enrolled or began classes? No Yes (If yes, what accommodation did you request and did the seminary provide that accommodation?) 10. While you were a student at the seminary did you find the buildings and grounds of the seminary to be accessible to you? not at all only a little to some degree mostly accessible totally accessible 11. Did you find the teaching methods used by faculty and/or technologies employed in the classroom supportive of your accessibility needs? . . not at all only a little to some degree mostly accessible - totally accessible 12. Was seminary housing suitable or adapted for a person with your disability? Yes No Don't know 13. Beyond the classroom, were seminary programs, such as community worship, special lectures, or student activities, accessible to you? not at all only a little to some degree mostly accessible totally accessible 14. Were you aware of other people with disabilities in the seminary community? Yes No 15. When you attended the seminary did it offer specific courses related to disability issues? Yes No Don't know (or don't remember) If you answered "'yes," in what areas of the curriculum were the courses offered? (Check any/all that apply.) Pastoral ministry Old or New Testament Pastoral counseling - Christian Education Ethics Other(?) 16. From your experiences in seminary, what approach(es) were taken to disability issues? (Check any/all that apply.) As punishment for sin As a test of faith As opportunities for God's intervention As opportunities for growth and learning As examples of redemptive suffering As examples of God's mysterious omnipotence As examples of the interdependence of the universe As opportunities for Christian community Other(?) 17. Did you seek employment related to your seminary training after graduation? Yes No Already had employment If you answered yes, how much difficulty did you have finding employment? 18. Please share any other comments or specific experiences that you had as a seminary student that might help us understand your experiences as a seminary student with a disability. We are asking respondents to identify themselves so that we might be able to follow up with questions. However, you may reply anonymously if you prefer. No use of the data collected will identify individuals. The report will include identified experiences of a handful of individuals who will be interviewed directly for this purpose. Name. Mailing address: Telephone: E-mail address: I would like to receive a copy of the results of this study. Please return this questionnaire and any other information you wish to append or include by the end of June of this year to: L. J. Gilbert PO Box 424 Washington, NH 03280 Or you may respond via FAX to (603) 495-0359 or mail to ljgilb@aol.com

An Update on the Study of UCC-Related Seminaries and Their Students with Disabilities As announced in the April 1999 issue of this newsletter, the study of seminaries affiliated with or related to the UCC and students with disabilities in well underway. The researcher doing the study, Laura Jean Gilbert, has visited nine of the 14 seminaries located in the continental U.S. and has plans to visit three additional seminaries in the coming month. In the fall of 1999, a letter from David Denham was sent to each of the 14 seminaries explaining the study and inviting their participation. Those 14 seminaries are Andover-Newton Theological School, Bangor Theological Seminary, Chicago Theological Seminary, Eden Theological Seminary, Hartford Seminary, Harvard Divinity School, Howard University School of Divinity, The Interdenominational Theological Center, Lancaster Theological Seminary, Pacific School of Religion, Union Theological Seminary, United Theological Seminary, The Divinity School at Vanderbilt University, and Yale Divinity School. Almost all of the seminaries are participating in the study. Bangor Seminary declined to participate, and Howard has not responded to letters, phone calls, or e-mail communication. Therefore, final results will include six directly-related and six affiliated seminaries. A pilot study was done last fall at Princeton Seminary, and data from that study was used to revise the questionnaires used in the actual study. Princeton had been through a year-long analysis by an architectural firm of its facilities related to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and those findings were made available to our researcher. Our study is considering not only the facilities of each seminary, but also current and recent past enrolled students who have identified themselves as having a disability. It also involves a questionnaire distributed to full-time faculty asking them about their personal experiences with individuals who have a disability in their classes, and it looks for specific recent books about individuals with disabilities -- such as The Disabled God by Nancy Eiesland -- in each seminary's library. The researcher hopes to do an analysis of all the collected data over the summer and submit a final report to UCC Disabilities Ministries by fall 2000. From UCC DM Newsletter Archive

Book: Human Disability and the Service of God - (01/21/1999)

Reassessing Religious Practice edited by Nancy L. Eiesland and Don E. Saliers, Abingdon Press. During a conference on Disability and Liturgy held at Emory University, 14 noted Christian scholars with and without disabilities responded in essay form to questions:

How does the full participation of persons with disabilities relate to the interpretation of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament?
What implications follow from such a biblically based theology of disability for pastoral training, pastoral care, and the liturgical formation of clergy and congregation?
What practices, liturgical and devotional, have been generated by the presence of persons with disabilities in worship, and how may we assess such innovations and the programs to promote and nurture liturgical participation?

Now compiled in this book, these essays help church leaders, pastors, and congregations understand the theological issues and biblical interpretations of sin, disability, and healing; review the appointment of disabled person within their own parish settings; and involve disabled persons in liturgy and other aspects of church life. Readers are challenged by these writers to re-form their faith and worship communities into a more informed, inclusive, and involving atmosphere of people with disabilities. From UCC DM Newsletter Archive, Book Beat