Bøker av Brett Webb-Mitchell

Flowing from Jesus' parable of the banquet feast, this practical and challenging call to a more inclusive church shows why disabled people - the mentally retarded, the physically impaired, and others - must be a part of congregational life, along with how, where, and what to do. Essential for parents, teachers, and the disabled themselves.

""Dancing with Disabilities is about the ever-changing relationship between two groups...locked like dancers in either a passionate embrace or a dance of separareness, trying to move to the rhythm of the music that one or the other hears.""- from the Introduction Imagine what a church could be if those who are ""disabled"" and those who are ""able-bodied"" were to understand them-selves to be equal partners in the faith community.Writing personally and passionately on this compelling subject, Brett Webb-Mitchell relates the struggles and triumphs, frustrations and joys, of the children and adults with disabilities whom he has met through his ministry. It is these persons who put a genuinely human face to ""disabilities"" - and those presence challenges the church to welcome all God's children to their rightful place in the Christian community.

A resource for taking practical and spiritual'next steps'after compliance with the American Disabilities Act.

Moving beyond traditional human developmental theories, pastor and Christian education theorist Brett Webb-Mitchell uses stories and analysis to walk with readers on a road toward rediscovering an ancient Christian custom that may ultimately lead to new roads in Christian education. This important work encapsulates a new understanding of faith...