CRC Disability Concerns office and issues related to worship and disabilities
We were grateful to meet as a staff recently with Rev. Mark Stephenson, the new director of Disability Concerns for the Christian Reformed Church, to discuss multiple issues related to disability and worship.
The work of Disability Concerns was examined recently in the Journal of Religion, Disability and Health, in an article by Rev. Eric Pridmore:
Summary: The Christian Reformed Church is presented as a “model” for inclusion of people with disabilities in relation to both society’s legislative responses to disability rights culminating in the ADA and the denomination’s decision to “conform” to the ADA is to be located in its theology and its position with respect to social location as an immigrant church with Calvinist leanings. The response of New Hope Church in Atlanta is critiqued as a “test case” of the CRC’s ADA policy which indicates mixed compliance. However, the CRC is affirmed as a pattern for other denominations to follow.
Also see our Vital Worship feature story on disability and worship, and Friendship Ministries.
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