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Intervarsity Press has just published the First Nations Version: An Indigenous Translation of the New Testament. We talked with Terry M. Wildman, who served as lead translator, general editor, and project manager of the First Nations Version (FVN).
By Raedorah C. Stewart
Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed into the Heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast to our profession. For we do not have a High Priest who cannot be touched with the feelings of our infirmities, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.
By Kevin Vollrath
Noor Society is a group of mothers of children with developmental disabilities advocating for each other and their children in Aida Camp, a refugee camp of over 5,000 people started in 1948 after the Nakba.
By James A. Cates, Jr.
“Jake” was a small boy for 15 years of age. It was difficult to imagine the severe emotional disturbance that led to his placement in a residential treatment center, but it was also difficult to imagine the abuse experienced in his home.
By Vina Mogg
I remember the first time I held a watercolor brush in my hand. There was something therapeutic about the weight of it between my fingers, the shape of the brush tapering at the end just so.
By Bernie Sheahan
I’m Bernie Sheahan. I’m creative…and mentally ill. There are many categories of mental illness; I’m an expert on just one.
By Melanie Springer Mock
Amy Jacober remembers well the anger she felt when, in her early 20s, she saw a first-grade girl get kicked out of her church’s youth choir.
By Matt Curcio
People with disabilities make up the largest minority group in the US. As many as one in five Americans have a permanent and life-altering disability.
Yet, more often than not, we are left out of conversations in both the public and faith-based sectors.
By Elrena Evans
In 2014, lifelong friends Justin Skeesuck and Patrick Gray completed the Camino de Santiago, a 500-mile pilgrimage across northern Spain.
Justin has a degenerative neuromuscular condition known as Multifocal Acquired Motor Anoxopathy, and uses a wheelchair.
By Matt Curcio
The United States is in the middle of an employment crisis—one that will probably never be covered by Fox or CNN.
Politicians are super proud of being able to get that big scary unemployment number down to 4.9 percent.
By Gillian Marchenko
The holiday season typically means people get more of everything; more food, more gift giving, more parties and visits. For families who have children with special needs, the holidays usually mean more challenges and less inclusion.
By Matt Curcio
If you haven’t heard yet, Donald Trump will take office in January 2017. Some of those reading this voted for him, some of you are still reeling from his win. I am not here to stretch out those discussions any further.
By Elrena Evans
The week school began this year, I was chatting with one of the therapists at my son’s elementary school. She asked who his teacher was for second grade, and when I told her, she smiled.
By Carole Brenton
“They can’t hear, but they’re not blind. Can’t they just read the Bible?” I get this often when I speak to groups of hearing people, who ask me questions that those serving in a spoken-language context would never be asked.
By Sarita Fowler
Many Christians unwittingly overlook the world’s third-largest unreached people group, many of whom live in the US. Although this group shares many similarities with the rest of us, their culture and language differ significantly from ours.
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