Brett Webb-Mitchell
Auteur de Dancing With Disabilities: Opening the Church to All God's Children
A propos de l'auteur
Brett Webb-Mitchell is a pilgrim, speaker, writer, teacher, ordained Presbyterian pastor, parent, partner, and pet lover. Currently, Brett is a pastor serving St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Portland, Oregon, having been on the faculty of Duke University and North Carolina Central University in afficher plus Durham, North Carolina. Author of two other pilgrimage books-Follow Me (Seabury) and School of the Pilgrim (Westminster John Knox)-Webb-Mitchell directs the School of the Pilgrim (www.schoolofthepilgrim.com), taking people on pilgrimage around the world and in their backyards. afficher moins
Œuvres de Brett Webb-Mitchell
Unexpected Guests at God's Banquet: Welcoming People with Disabilities in the Church (1994) 28 exemplaires
Oeuvres associées
Care for the Soul: Exploring the Intersection of Psychology & Theology (2001) — Contributeur — 77 exemplaires
On Moral Medicine: Theological Perspectives in Medical Ethics (2012) — Contributeur, quelques éditions — 20 exemplaires
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Webb-Mitchell is an ordained pastor who has always had a special interest in how disabled children experience God and spirituality. His experiences demonstrate religious awareness in disabled kids whom society (and, unfortunately all too often, the church) dismiss as lacking the capacity for religious awareness.
The best part of this book are the stories he tells about the kids. Occasionally, Webb-Mitchell's commentary felt a little tedious, but he made some good points.
The focus here is mainly on conventional Judeo-Christian religious traditions; though some of the youngsters had understandings of those concepts that might seem "strange" to traditional thinkers, there was little here of any alternative spirituality.
Good food for thought for religious leaders and others in churches and synagogues who would like to open their congregations to meaningful ministry with people with disabilities.… (plus d'informations)