Dr. Samuel Kabue, coordinator of the Ecumenical Disability Advocates Network says, “The inclusion of persons with disability is not an option but a defining characteristic of the Church.”
Members of EDAN, a program of the World Council of Churches, met in the Netherlands to develop a new statement with the working title “Gift of Being: Called to be a Church of All and for All.”
The new document aims to build on the WCC interim statement on disability “A Church of All and for All” issued in 2003, the WCC said in a statement.
That was… less than informative.
As someone who is deaf, I want to read about the formulation of concrete steps for integrating the disabled into the life of the congregation, not BS about the “theology of disability.” People with disabilities offer their sufferings up everyday to unite themselves with Jesus on the Cross. They don’t need yet another committee to formulate junk theology.