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	<description>To be saved cost us nothing...to be a disciple costs us everything.</description>
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		<title>Social consequences of disability</title>
		<link>http://thejustlife.org/home/2010/07/14/social-consequences-of-disability/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have written elsewhere in this blog about what have been called the &#8220;social consequences of disability.&#8221; That is, how does society respond to the fact that someone uses a wheelchair or has autism, or has an intellectual disability. See for example this posting Social Healing or here Social Role Valorization and Wounding. Both of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Community Based Isolation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently had a meeting with a friend of mine and we were discussing the problems faced by people with various disabilities, particularly intellectual disabilities, who live in group homes in the community. The friend I was talking with said that the people are living in “community-based isolation.” That is, although they are physically integrated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Please keep Joni and Ken Tada in your prayers</title>
		<link>http://thejustlife.org/home/2010/06/25/please-keep-joni-and-ken-tada-in-your-prayers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 06:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning, the Joni and Friends website shared that Joni has been diagnosed with cancer. Please visit this website for the full letter drafted by Joni.In the letter she states, Please pray that the upcoming tests, surgery and subsequent treatment will be successful (thankfully, my quadriplegia has no bearing on either the surgery or the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&quot;Celebrating the past: Honoring the legacy of Eunice Kennedy Shriver and Senator Edward Kennedy&quot;</title>
		<link>http://thejustlife.org/home/2010/06/11/celebrating-the-past-honoring-the-legacy-of-eunice-kennedy-shriver-and-senator-edward-kennedy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 18:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That was the title of a presentation given to the entire membership this morning at the AAIDD conference. The majority of the presentation centered on Mrs. Shriver who was an amazing advocate for persons with intellectual disabilities in America. Her brothers President Kennedy and Sen. Edward Kennedy are the ones often credited with the actual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AAIDD Providence</title>
		<link>http://thejustlife.org/home/2010/06/10/aaidd-providence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 06:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am currently at the annual meeting of the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. I am the incoming president of the Religion and Spirituality Division of the organization and have been enjoying interactions with old friends and have been making some new friends. Today, I attended a session by Dr. Robert Schalock, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Autism &amp; Alleluias</title>
		<link>http://thejustlife.org/home/2010/05/18/autism-alleluias/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 18:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was contacted recently about reviewing the new book, Autism &#38; Alleluias here. The book is written by Kathleen Deyer Bolduc and as my friend Bill Gaventa describes in the Forward is like a &#8220;book of modern day psalms.&#8221; I think it is the kind of book that parents or family members of an individual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Growing pains</title>
		<link>http://thejustlife.org/home/2010/05/12/growing-pains/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 18:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Something occurred to me the other day, actually in the midst of doing a presentation at the Joni and friends conference in Pasadena this past weekend. The changes that the church is/will be/should be going through are going to cause discomfort, perhaps emotional distress to those who want to keep things the same. I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good intentions and laziness</title>
		<link>http://thejustlife.org/home/2010/04/27/good-intentions-and-laziness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my role as a special ed professor, I am often visiting classrooms where student teachers work under a &#8220;master&#8221; teacher in order to learn how to be a teacher through direct practice. Typically these classrooms are a mixed bag. There are some teachers who truly are masters at what they do. I look forward [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The good Samaritan</title>
		<link>http://thejustlife.org/home/2010/04/02/the-good-samaritan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 06:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight I was speaking to my class about the family life cycle as it relates to people with disabilities and their families. The research literature at times mentions &#8220;chronic sorrow&#8221; in regard to the life cycle in that at every stage of life, people with disabilities and their families are often confronted with the impact [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3/21/10 World Down Syndrome Day</title>
		<link>http://thejustlife.org/home/2010/03/24/32110-world-down-syndrome-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 06:04:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Your search yielded no results&#8221; Rarely does this statement cause me happiness when it appears on my computer screen. Typically it means that I haven&#8217;t been able to find what I was looking for. But today, I smiled happily at my computer screen. They get it. You see, I searched the Down Syndrome International website [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amos Yong at Cal Baptist</title>
		<link>http://thejustlife.org/home/2010/03/12/amos-yong-at-cal-baptist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Amos Yong will provide a Special Lecture on issues in Theology and DisabilityThursday March 25, 2010 at 430-6 pmCopenbarger Room, Yeager CenterCalifornia Baptist University Dr. Yong is J. Rodman Williams Professor of Theology andDirector of the Doctor of Philosophy program,Regent University School of Divinity. He is author of 11 books and numerous articles on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Church and Disability / The Orchard</title>
		<link>http://thejustlife.org/home/2010/03/07/the-church-and-disability-the-orchard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have just published two new books. The first is entitled The Church and Disability and is basically selections from the first five years of my weblog, disabledChristianity. As I went through the entries, I was interested once again with what, I believe, God has revealed to me about issues of theology and disability, disability [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Church and Disability</title>
		<link>http://thejustlife.org/home/2010/03/06/the-church-and-disability/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 07:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have just published two new books. The first is entitled &#8220;The church anddisability&#8221; and is basically selections from the first five years of my weblog, disabledChristianity. As I went through the entries, I was verypleased with what, I believe, God has revealed to me about issues of theologyand disability, disability ministry, people with disablities [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DTS and DBU</title>
		<link>http://thejustlife.org/home/2010/03/06/dts-and-dbu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 07:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had an amazing day today. I had the opportunity to meet with two men who have been involved in the development of a new course on the theology of disability and suffering at Dallas Theological Seminary which is one of the premier seminaries in America. Daniel Thomson spearheaded the development of the course at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Juxtaposition</title>
		<link>http://thejustlife.org/home/2010/02/19/juxtaposition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 07:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do you think when you see this object? This object or one very much like it has been in many households in America. Typically you think &#8220;infant&#8221; as this is a toy for small children that helps them to learn to sort shapes. It is a kind of a cultural icon that people would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&quot;&#8230;extension of the processes of control within the capitalist state.&quot;</title>
		<link>http://thejustlife.org/home/2010/01/29/extension-of-the-processes-of-control-within-the-capitalist-state/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:04:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That is how Michael Oliver, the Professor of Disability Studies describes the move from institutions to the community in a 1994 article. He does not see the change as &#8220;part of a process of removing some of the apparatus of social control by the state.&#8221; But an extension of control. I am confident that I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Regulated lives, regulated relationships</title>
		<link>http://thejustlife.org/home/2010/01/09/regulated-lives-regulated-relationships/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 07:17:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, a light came on for me this morning while I was mucking out the horse&#8217;s pen. I was blessed with the opportunity to address a group of case workers from the Inland Regional Center on the issue of community integration of persons with disabilities. They were a great group and I had a great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&quot;Not playing with a full deck&quot;</title>
		<link>http://thejustlife.org/home/2010/01/01/not-playing-with-a-full-deck/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 07:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When someone is referred to as &#8220;Not playing with a full deck&#8221; the implication is that they aren&#8217;t all there, that there is something that is lacking. I find that with some of my friends with disabilities that they are not playing with a full deck. But not in the sense of lacking something like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Event at Cal Baptist featuring Dr. Wolf Wolfensberger</title>
		<link>http://thejustlife.org/home/2009/12/18/event-at-cal-baptist-featuring-dr-wolf-wolfensberger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a reader of this blog, you will recognize the name Wolfensberger. Dr. Wolfensberger has had a significant impact on the way I see services for persons with various disabilities. He will be coming to Cal Baptist, Feb 27 &#38; 28 to do a training on The history of human services. It will be excellent! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Like a child</title>
		<link>http://thejustlife.org/home/2009/12/18/like-a-child/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:58:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t been blogging as much lately because I have been writing articles for several outlets. I am excited about the articles. Here is a cut from one article that has to do with Jesus and disability. I am sure the final will be much different from this passage, but it was helpful to think [...]]]></description>
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