Dancing with Disabilities: Opening the Church to All God's Children

Dancing with Disabilities is about the ever-changing relationship between two groups...locked like dancers in either a passionate embrace or a dance of separareness trying to move to the rhythm of the music that one or the other hears. - from the Introduction Imagine what a church could be if those who are disabled and those who are able-bodied were to understand them-selves to be equal partners in the faith community. Writing personally and passionately on this compelling subject Brett Webb-Mitchell relates the struggles and triumphs frustrations and joys of the children and adults with disabilities whom he has met through his ministry. It is these persons who put a genuinely human face to disabilities - and those presence challenges the church to welcome all Gods children to their rightful place in the Christian community. BRETT WEBB-MITCHELL teaches at Duke Divinity School in Durham North Carolina. He is the author of God Plays Piano Too: The Spiritual Lives of Disabled Children and Unexpected Guests at Gods Banquet: Welcoming People with Disabilities into the Church.