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Gifts for the church
Gloria* communicated with loud and disruptive noises. Her face was disfigured. Everything about my mother’s cousin revealed her disability—and yet one gesture reflected her ability to love. Gloria was born at a time when people with developmental disabilities were ostracized from society. I rarely saw her, even though her father went to the same church…
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Light on Silence: A podcast preview
Last September, I attended the wedding of friends in Morden, Manitoba. It was a picturesque prairie day as my wife and I drove the highways past beautiful crops ready for harvest and scattered farmhouses, some with children playing happily in the yard. As we drove along, preparing to celebrate love, I thought for the first…