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The Bible, Disability, and the Church: A New Vision of the People of God is unavailable, but you can change that!

Inspiring and challenging study that rethinks the Bible’s teaching on disability. The Bible has plenty to say about human disability; most of it is negative. Yet Amos Yong—a theologian whose life experience includes growing up alongside a brother with Down syndrome—argues that it is the way we read biblical texts, not the Bible itself, that causes us unthinkingly to marginalize those with...

to them and to the world. They have come a long way from the earliest days of wrestling deeply with the meaning of his life. My mother, especially, has come to see in Mark God’s miraculous provision. If you were to visit her home, she would share her testimony of life with Mark as one miracle after another: of the many physical healings in his body; of Mark’s being rescued from being shut away in the back of the house (still the plight of many people with Down syndrome in the global South) to being
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