Voting Privacy: Some Considerations
As I browsed through Facebook statuses this afternoon, I saw a new status that appeared to be going viral among people who are blind. It said, “One thing I take pride in is that my vote is private. Have you noticed when you vote, you go into a booth to have privacy while you vote? [...]
helpers vs. friends: starting early
“Why are you here?” the child asked me. As I held his hand and we walked through the lobby on the way to the sanctuary, I heard people comment with pleasure, “He’s helping her.” The question he had asked me reverberated in my mind…
an unexpected joy
At one time in my life, I thought that it would be physically impossible for me to study Hebrew. I am now working to help others to find the joy that I have found in biblical lanugage study.
Disability, Christian Theology, and the Proper Place of “Limit-ness”
Deborah Creamer proposes a theology of disability based on the concept that all people are “limited.” When is this concept of “limit-ness” harmful to people with disabilities?
Sarah J. Blake LaRose
Sarah J. Blake LaRose is an ordained minister with the Church of God (Anderson, IN) whose special areas of interest are biblical languages, ministry with seekers, and equipping the church to include people with special needs. Sarah is the author of two chapters in Discipleship that Transforms: An Introduction to Christian Education from a Wesleyan/Holiness Perspective, published in 2011 by Warner Press. She presented a paper with Lauren Tuchman entitled "Using Technology to Meet the Needs of Biblical Language Scholars Who Are Blind" at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in San Francisco in 2011.
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Contributing Scholars
Jenn LindsayJenn Lindsay is a PhD student in Boston University's Division of Religious and Theological Studies, where she studies how religion affects personal relationships, particularly interreligious relationships. She earned her Masters Degree at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, where her program focus was Interfaith Relations and she served as co-chair of the Interfaith Caucus and the student senate Minister of Fun. She hails from San Diego and worked for a decade in New York City as an independent musician and filmmaker.
Sarah BassinHaving been ordained as a rabbi from Hebrew Union College in 2011, Sarah Bassin now serves as the executive director of NewGround: A Muslim-Jewish Partnership for Change based out of Los Angeles.