Product Description: Including both theoretical discussions and practical information for congregational use or pastoral use, this rich, accessible book explores biblical text, historical and theological issues of disability, and examples of successful ministry by people with disabilities...read more

Product Description: Supportive Care in the Congregation: Providing a congregational network of care for persons with significant disabilities. In the 1980s, a group of Mennonites developed an innovative proposal to support individuals with significant disabilities, along with their families ...read more

Taking insight from Jesus' parable of the banquet feast, this practical and challenging call to a more inclusive church shows why disabled people--the mentally disabled, the physically impaired, and others--must be a part of congregational life, and offers advice on how to make this a reality.

Product Description: Gain insight into the importance of advocacy for the disabled within various religious and secular organizationsYou shall love your neighbor as yourself. (Romans 13:9) Through the years, religious organizations have worked to fulfill this biblical mandate...read more

Product Description: Gain insight into the importance of advocacy for the disabled within various religious and secular organizationsYou shall love your neighbor as yourself. (Romans 13:9) Through the years, religious organizations have worked to fulfill this biblical mandate...read more

Requiring no formal music background, this complete teaching package offers a unique, appealing, and effective introduction to the art of singing. Suitable for beginning and intermediate singers of all voices, "Basics of Singing" is flexibly organized, providing a variety of pedagogical approaches to present the basic principles of voice production, musicianship, song interpretation, and vocal health. New to this edition is a Background and Performance Notes section that provides singers with context and performance advice for every song in the anthology. The anthology section contains 45 songs, presenting 15 songs from such musicals as "The Secret Garden," "Babes in Arms," "West Side Story," and "Into the Woods"; 15 arias and art songs of Scarlatti, Faur, Vaughan Williams, Clara Schumann, Rorem, and other great composers, and 15 folk songs.

Product Description: Today's world is characterised by the ever-widening gap between the rich and the poor, between the so-called able and those with disabilities. The streets of our big cities are populated by growing numbers of homeless, broken people...read more

Product Description: Religion and Disability presents three keynote addresses from the national symposium, "Ministry Perspectives on Disability." In the opening essay, noted scripture scholar Donald Senior identifies certain themes often associated with scripture-such as the distinction between clean and unclean, and the notion that sin and guilt somehow cause sickness and disability-that contribute to non-welcoming attitudes to the disabled...read more

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Product Description: The author tells the stories of seven remarkable persons and their families. Woven into the stories are the experiences of congregations and individuals who were significant in the lives of these people with disabilities.

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