Dancing with Disabilities

Download or read book Dancing with Disabilities written by Brett Webb-Mitchell and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2008-11-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dancing with Disabilities is about the ever-changing relationship between two groupsÉlocked 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.