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		<title>a life filled with &quot;almost friends&quot;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That is the phrase one of my students in the California Baptist University&#8217;s Disability Studies MA program, Jennifer Baca, used to describe to too often experience of people with disabilities.&#160; It is a powerful phrase, that is damning in its implications.&#160; Many people who experience disability have lives filled with people who are nice, perhaps because they are paid to ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Bible and people with severe intellectual impairments</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Should we teach the Bible to those with severe cognitive disabilities?&#8221; is a question that was asked in a weblog entitled &#8220;The Works of God.&#8221; I really appreciate this blog raising this question not because it necessarily is a question in my mind, but because it is the question in too many pastor&#8217;s minds (assuming the question is even considerd). ...]]></description>
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		<title>Underestimating others</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had an interesting experience yesterday in our Light and Power class.&#160; I was sitting with a friend, perhaps the most severely impaired member of our group.&#160; He would be considered as having a severe intellectual disability as he is largely nonverbal mostly just sitting, occasionally stating single words like &#8220;presents&#8221; or &#8220;pizza&#8221; or something similar.&#160; It would be easy ...]]></description>
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		<title>Pastor of &quot;Disability ministry&quot;</title>
		<link>http://thejustlife.org/home/2012/01/10/pastor-of-disability-ministry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part 1:&#160; What would be the role of a full time pastor of disability ministry? A major part of the job would be to change the environment around individuals with disabilities, in other words, the church.&#160; The starting point might be to create a place where people are included, however, the goal would be to remove exclusion from existing programs ...]]></description>
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		<title>Providing what is needed</title>
		<link>http://thejustlife.org/home/2011/12/16/providing-what-is-needed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I heard a story recently about an interaction a man had with his son.&#160; His son experienced many disabilities including autism and epilepsy.&#160; One day as they were driving together, the son who is quite bright said to his father, &#8220;I wish you could understand what is going on inside of me, inside of my head.&#8221;The father&#8217;s interest was piqued.&#160; ...]]></description>
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		<title>Weird glasses people</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[About 5 years ago, I wrote a blog entry that demonstrated an interaction between a person who wears glasses and one who does not, illustrating the manner in which people exeriencing disabilities are often treated. http://disabledchristianity.blogspot.com/2008/01/conversation-with-man-with-glasses.html A friend from Australia, Lindsay Gale, who works for the Luke 14 project there, told me how they had been using the dialogue in ...]]></description>
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		<title>Toby&#8217;s &quot;commercial&quot;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine made this &#8220;commercial&#8221;.&#160; Please take a minute and check it out.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRigofKAeZU&#38;feature=feedu McNair Read full original post.]]></description>
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		<title>Toby&#8217;s &quot;commercial&quot;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 18:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine made this &#8220;commercial&#8221;.&#160; Please take a minute and check it out.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRigofKAeZU&#38;feature=feedu McNair Read full original post.]]></description>
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		<title>Toby&#8217;s &quot;commercial&quot;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine made this &#8220;commercial&#8221;.&#160; Please take a minute and check it out.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRigofKAeZU&#38;feature=feedu McNair Read full original post.]]></description>
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		<title>Toby&#8217;s &quot;commercial&quot;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 18:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine made this &#8220;commercial&#8221;.&#160; Please take a minute and check it out.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRigofKAeZU&#38;feature=feedu McNair Read full original post.]]></description>
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		<title>Toby&#8217;s &quot;commercial&quot;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 18:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine made this &#8220;commercial&#8221;.&#160; Please take a minute and check it out.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRigofKAeZU&#38;feature=feedu McNair Read full original post.]]></description>
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		<title>Toby&#8217;s &quot;commercial&quot;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine made this &#8220;commercial&#8221;.&#160; Please take a minute and check it out.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRigofKAeZU&#38;feature=feedu McNair Read full original post.]]></description>
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		<title>Form follows function</title>
		<link>http://thejustlife.org/home/2011/11/23/form-follows-function/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to wikipedia, the phrase &#8220;form follows function&#8221; originates from Louis Sullivan in 1896. The idea was presented in a quote that says,It is the pervading law of all things organic and inorganic.&#160; Of all things physical and metaphysical.&#160; Of all things human and all things super-human, Of all true manifestations of the head,Of the heart, of the soul,That the ...]]></description>
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		<title>So what do you do?</title>
		<link>http://thejustlife.org/home/2011/11/13/so-what-do-you-do/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 18:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am reading Desmond Tutu&#8217;s book No Future without Forgiveness, It is an amazing discussion of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission which he directed as apartheid was dismantled.&#160;&#160;Perhaps I will share some of the deep lessons about forgiveness in a later post, relating them to disability issues.&#160; The excellent book&#160;has resurrected many memories of a trip I took to South ...]]></description>
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		<title>Inclusion Fusion Conference press release</title>
		<link>http://thejustlife.org/home/2011/11/02/inclusion-fusion-conference-press-release/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FreeWeb Conference to Educate About Kids with Disabilities Inclusion Fusion will teach church professionals how to reachkids with special needs CHAGRIN FALLS, OHIO – November 1, 2011 – KeyMinistry, a non-profit organization based in Cleveland, Ohio,&#160; is regarded as a leader in the field ofinclusion ministry and is pleased to present Inclusion Fusion, our first annual special needs ministry websummit. ...]]></description>
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		<title>Opportunities and realities</title>
		<link>http://thejustlife.org/home/2011/10/28/opportunities-and-realities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Opportunities abound for the possibility of doing good. The question is will we see those opportunities, or be distracted by some comparative trivia, some historical reason for resisting change? The &#8220;we have always done it this way&#8221; as foolish as it sounds remains a powerful argument. We resist change because change moves us out of our current positions of comfort, ...]]></description>
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		<title>St. Giles Church 9/10/06</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just discovered this post I had written on a trip to Scotland in 2006.&#160; Never posted, I thought I would post it now. I just got back from a wonderful conference in Aberdeen Scotland. While there, I sat in a church in Edinburgh called St. Giles Church and listened as a classical music group prepared for a concert later ...]]></description>
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		<title>&quot;Treat all people the same&quot;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine that was our creedo for the church. &#8220;We treat all people the same&#8221; but there are no women are in church. Would that be treating all people the same? Obviously not. So if we say we are treating everyone the same but certain groups are not present, that is probably a very good indication that we are NOT treating ...]]></description>
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		<title>&quot;Don&#8217;t believe everything you think!&quot;</title>
		<link>http://thejustlife.org/home/2011/10/28/dont-believe-everything-you-think/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my students, Jayson, in responding to a reading I had the class do, came up with this great statement&#8230;&#160; Don&#8217;t believe everything you think! It is such a great caution about living an unexamined life.&#160; There are many things that we think and do that we really don&#8217;t understand.&#160; We have ideas about people or things that somehow ...]]></description>
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		<title>Chickens and data based instruction</title>
		<link>http://thejustlife.org/home/2011/10/18/chickens-and-data-based-instruction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Something I wrote about 10 years back about data collection.&#160; You can visit the actual website where it lives, if you want.&#160; There is other information there about being data based as a teacher.http://www.jeffmcnair.com/CalBaptist/CBUTransition/Transition/new_page_4.htm There are several reasons why a teacher should take data on her students. Interestingly, they all seem to follow a chicken feeding model. Don’t ask why, ...]]></description>
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