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Mental Health, Medicine and Ministry – October 10, 2023
Romantic chatbots have been developed that offer suggestive selfies, sexually explicit (and apparently, realistic) conversations, and the ability to design a virtual girlfriend’s personality who is judgment-free, encourages users to spend more time with male friends and laughs at all of the user’s jokes. What will the impact be on our ability to engage in authentic relationships with the potential of leading to marriage? Or the impacts upon self-image for women who already fail to live up to the images in brains scarred by pornography? Continue reading
Call for Speakers for Disability and the Church 2024
The opportunity to apply to speak is open to any and all mature Christians with important or innovative thoughts or ideas to help grow or advance the disability ministry movement. Continue reading
A manifesto for the disability ministry movement
Disability and the Church will likely be the most impactful book written in our field of ministry for many years to come. I also find Lamar to be “pitch-perfect” in the language he uses to speak into difficult issues with the grace and truth reflective of our faith Continue reading
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Tagged Disability and the Church, Disability Ministry, diversity, Inclusion, Lamar Hardwick
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Faces of the Movement: Mike Beates (Part Two)
Every family with disability is unique in their needs and in the gifts they bring. If a church seeks to enter this vital area of ministry, they should start with those whom God brings to them. Continue reading
Faces of the Movement: Mike Beates
Looking back, Mary and I went into a free fall spiritually. “How could God do this to us?” we asked without necessarily saying it out loud. But over the years, her quiet – indeed wordless – life spoke volumes to us about trusting God more fully. Continue reading
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