Category: religion
Disabled worshippers struggle to find home in pews
From Forbes:
Years after federal law required accommodations for the disabled, separation of church and state means houses of worship remain largely beyond the law’s reach. State laws and denominational measures meant to take up the slack are tricky to enforce and face resistance from churches who call them both costly and impractical.
Full article: Disabled worshippers [...]
Faith Communities and Disability
Via Wheelie Catholic, a link to PBS’ Religion & Ethics Newsweekly article, Faith Communities and Disability:
I’ve had families say to me, “I’ve fought all week to get my kid included in a school or whatever. I shouldn’t””I don’t want to have to fight when it comes to Sunday morning or Saturday.”
The piece profiles several inclusive [...]
Everyone’s welcome, pee before you come
I’m like a broken record, discovering the same thing over and over again.
Tonight we rehearsed at Boulder Seventh Day Adventist Church. Inadequate parking, overly steep ramp, no flat area in front of the door, four steps up to to the chancel, no accessible restroom. Pee before you come.
I dug back into old email from when [...]
Rolling the Labyrinth
This is cool:
Nuns open wheelchair accessible labyrinth
I burn with shame
Despite her use of the unfortunate “confined to a wheelchair”, here is a minister who now gets it:
A few months later, the decision was made to move our regular weekly worship to a new location due to the space limits at the park rec center. A local AME Zion church in our neighborhood opened their [...]
(Full Post)The Cathedral Church of St. John, Albuquerque
Website: http://www.stjohnsabq.org/
Parking:
on the street (metered, Albuquerque allows handicapped parking permit holders to park at meters for free)
church lot on the northeast corner of property, no permit spaces
commercial parking lot across the street to the north, no charge on Sundays
Building access:
The building is accessible via the northeast entrance; all other entrances have steps. There is no [...]
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