Disability Advocacy

Occasionally, I hear someone ask, “Can someone with an intellectual disability understand the gospel?” In my reading I’ve even come across commentary suggesting that people with intellectual disabilities can’t respond to the gospel, and that they are saved some other way.

Believers would do well to reflect on Spurgeon’s insights and consider how they can increase their thankfulness and how they can express it and give praise to God.

Jason reviews Amy Kenny’s new book that explores the way that ableism has pervaded church culture.

Originally published in the June-July 2014 Edition of The Presbyterian Pulse I recently read an article by Lynette May, CEO of Disability Employment Australia, exploring ways in which organisations can …

Every so often, life with disability is perceived as a “waste of a life”. Or the comment is made that it is a “shame” that the person with a disability …

The coronation of King Charles III will take place on this Saturday (6th May 2023). No doubt this will be a historic occasion. Especially when the last coronation occurred in …

Jason reviews the 2021 film ‘Penguin Bloom’ and the book it’s based on – a story of what happens when a severe disability strikes a family.

Disability Advocate, Jason Forbes, shares a poetic reflection about what the hope of Heaven means to him as a person with a disability.