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In Part 1, of this three-part series, guest author Lucy Crabtree shared her experience with hearing loss and struggle to find a place in the local church. In Part 2, she offered practical advice for loving your neighbors in the hearing loss community. This third and final installment features practical advice for including the hearing…
In Part 1, of this three-part series, guest author Lucy Crabtree shared her experience with hearing loss and struggle to find a place in the local church. In this second post, she offers practical advice for loving your neighbors in the hearing loss community. — Part 2 — As I concluded in Part 1, we…
Last October, I posted the following tweet, in which I used the term “deaf and dumb” in proximity with being cognitively impaired: One of my followers, Lucy Crabtree, sent me a kind private message in response. She informed me of how the phrase has been used historically. She also explained why it can be offensive…
“Well, at least this sort of thing is rare,” a friend remarked after a conflict that went south. My mind (which, if illustrated, would look a bit like a conspiracy theorist’s wall with pieces of string connecting a thousand unrelated newspaper clippings and excerpts from The Catcher in the Rye) immediately associated “rare” with steak….
It’s early Tuesday morning. You shuffle into your study at the church, turn on the coffee maker, and open your laptop. While the coffee brews, you open your email to find a subject line that says “Is Jesus the True and Better Woman?” You open the message. It reads: