Inverted Orthodoxy #408 - Disability in the church

1. I've listened to over 30 of your podcasts in the last couple weeks... Nothing like getting a pump in at the gym and hearing a couple of pastors call each other heretics! :) 

I quite enjoy your willingness to explore the nuances and intricacies of faith! It sure is beautifully messy isn’t in?

I have searched your database of Q&A/Inverted Orthodoxy Podcasts and have not found anything on Disability and the church, or even Disability and faith. 

Please bear with me… I tried to break apart the questions into more discussable talking points. 

Question 1.1 - Open Ended: 

What are your initial thoughts or convictions regarding "Disability and the church?"

Question 1.2 - Statement and Open Ended: 

According to the World Health Organization, 16 per cent of the world’s population, that’s one in six people, has a disability of some variety. ( https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/disability-and-health) Or a Canadian statistic… “An estimated one in five Canadians (or 6.2 million) aged 15 years and over had one or more disabilities…” https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/181128/dq181128a-eng.htm)

As well, author Lamar Hardwick (Disability and the church) states that "Families impacted by autism are nearly 84 percent more likely to NEVER attend religious services due to a felt lack of inclusion." 

With this in mind... I can probably count on one hand the amount of times i have heard preached... or even heard referenced "disability" within the church. Why do you think that is?

Question 1.3 - Close Ended(ish):

Have you seen Hyatt Moore's Luke 14 Banquet portrait? Thoughts on his exploration of Luke 14?

( https://www.hyattmoore.com/store/Christian_Prints/Luke_14_Banquet)

Question 1.4 - Open Ended: 

Any thoughts regarding 1 Corinthians 12:12-27 and disability?

Question 1.5 - Open Ended: 

Is sin related to disability? is there a "fallen world" correlation to disability? Original/inherent sin or actual/personal sin?

Question 1.6 - Open Ended: 

Any thoughts on disability and our resurrected bodies? Jesus still had scars when he was resurrected. (John 20:19-29; Luke 24:38–40;)

Question 1.7 – Statement and Open Ended:

Many disability advocates emphasize the difference between a “medical model” (seeing disability as a problem to be fixed) and a “social model” (seeing disability as a mismatch between a person and their environment). Which model do you think the church most often operates from, and how might that need to change?

Question 1.8 - Open Ended:

Sort of related to the last… How might the church better incorporate universal design within the church? Is this something living springs thinks about?

Question 1.9 – Open Ended:

How do you think the church’s theology of the Imago Dei (Genesis 1:26–27) should shape how we view and engage with people with disabilities?

2. If Manna came back today, what modern food do you secretly hope it would taste like

3. What is the strangest thing you have seen happen mid-sermon that you had to keep preaching through.