This issue: Discounts, Inclusion Fusion, Conferences, Mental Illness and Faith Issues and Resources, Henri Nouwen Award.
Gleanings is a new bi-weekly (or so) resource, available as a free subscription from the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD) Religion and Spirituality Division, and edited by the Rev. Bill Gaventa. To subscribe go to http://www.aaiddreligion.org/newsletter It includes annotated links to blogs, videos, books, articles, and conferences on disability issues touching on politics, theology, faith, culture, science, and more. Contributions welcome. Email: bill.gaventa@gmail.com.
(My apology. Subscribers are getting this twice. I had the subject line from the last on still on the first one. If you forward these, forward this one!)
Coming right up:
Deadline on Friday, October 31. Baylor Press has a discount code that you can use for a 15% discount on the hardcover copy of Hans Reinder’s new book, Disability, Providence, and Ethics. You can read more about the book at www.baylorpress.com. Go to that website, use the discount code BDPE, and you will receive the discount plus free shipping.
USA Faith and Light is sponsoring an event with Marie Helene Mathieu, the Co-Founder with Jean Vanier of the International Faith and Light, and author of a new book about Faith and Light called Never Alone Again. November 8, 9, and 10th. A two-day retreat and one day event. It takes place at the Washington Retreat House, Harewood Road in Washington and at the Ukrainian Catholic National Shrine of the Holy Family, also on Harewood Road. For more information and registration forms, email Plandis@Indcreek.Org.
November 12-13, the two day Inclusion Fusion conference sponsored by Key Ministry. For more information, go to https://www.facebook.com/inclusionfusion
Congratulations to:
Curtis Ramsey-Lucas for his appointment to the role of Interfaith Engagement Director at the American Association for Persons with Disabilities. Specifically, he will coordinate the work of Interfaith Disability Advocacy Coalition (IDAC) as it seeks to mobilize the religious community to speak out and take action on disability policy issues with Congress, the president and administration, and society at large. He will manage the coalition’s thirty-four members for coordinated action on employment, independent living, health care access, and education. He will also manage AAPD’s Mental Health and Faith Community Partnership with the American Psychiatric Association and the American Psychiatric Foundation.
We Grieve:
The news of the far too early death of Rabbi Judith Abrams, one of the pioneers in modern Jewish explorations of understandings of disability in the Torah and Talmud:
Judaism and Disability: Portrayals in Ancient Texts from the Tanach through the Bavli (1998). For more, see http://houstonjewishfunerals.com/obituaries.html?view=detail&id=402
A wealth of news items and resources related to mental health and faith this past month:
Faith communities shedding pastoral light on mental health. Chicago Sun Times (AAPD, 9/12)
https://www.baptiststandard.com/news/texas/16936-seminary-training-inadequate-to-enable-pastors-to-help-mentally-ill-congregants#.VBHiV4VqeAI.email
Mental illness remains taboo topic for pastors. Baptist Press (9/22) From AAPD
Mental illness rarely addressed by churches. Religion News Service (9/22)
In contrast, read about a Church for All People at: http://www.adnetonline.org/resources/newsletter#church
http://www.religionlink.com/source-guides/mental-illness-what-is-the-role-of-the-church-temple-mosque/
http://bulletin.hds.harvard.edu/articles/summerautumn2014/what-faith-communities-can-teach-psychiatrists-about-depression
American Baptist Home Mission Society Fall Issue of their magazine, The Christian Citizen, devoted to faith and mental illness. http://abhms.org/resources/christian_citizen/index.cfm
Other resources:
The 2014 Fall issue Tikkun Magazine is focused on Disability, Justice, and Spirituality. Some articles are online, others are only in the print issue. For more information, go to http://www.tikkun.org/nextgen/online-exclusives-disability-justice
Nominate a leader in disability and faith for The Henri Nouwen Award!
The AAIDD Religion and Spirituality Division welcomes nominations from anyone for its annual Henri Nouwen Award. Here is the link about the award and nomination procedures. Nominations for the Nouwen Award Information.
http://www.aaiddreligion.org/conference/henri-nouwen-award/about-award. All submissions are due to Anne Masters by December 31, 2014. Anne's email address is masteranrcan@gmail.com
If you are interested in membership in the AAIDD R&S Division, check out:
http://www.aaiddreligion.org/invitation-join
http://www.aaiddreligion.org/join
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