A Spiritual companion and political manifesto that cuts through objectification and inspiration alike to offer a powerful new account of Disability in biblical narrative and contemporary culture For disabled people in religious communities, their families, and clergy and congregants Open the Bible, and Disability is everywhere.
With both a lyrical love of tradition and incisive political analysis, Belser braids Spiritual perspectives together with keen activist insights--inviting readers to claim the power and promise of Spiritual dissent, to nourish their own souls through the revolutionary art of radical self-love..
And she shows how Sabbath rest can be a powerful counter to the relentless demand for productivity, an act of Spiritual resistance in a culture that makes work the signal measure of our worth.
She talks back to biblical commentators who traffic in Disability stigma and shame, challenging interpretations that demean disabled people and diminish the vitality of disabled lives.
Drawing insights from the hard-won Wisdom of disabled folks who\'ve forged difference into fierce and luminous cultural dissent, Belser offers fresh and unexpected readings of familiar biblical stories, showing how Disability Wisdom can guide us all toward a powerful reckoning with the complexities of the flesh.
Loving Our Own Bones turns that perspective on its head.
For centuries, these stories have been told and retold by commentators who treat Disability as misfortune, as a metaphor for Spiritual incapacity, or as a challenge to be overcome.
Jesus heals the sick the blind, the paralyzed, and the possessed.
Isaac\'s blindness lets his wife trick him into bestowing his blessing on his younger son.
Moses stutters and thinks himself unable to answer God\'s call.
A Spiritual companion and political manifesto that cuts through objectification and inspiration alike to offer a powerful new account of Disability in biblical narrative and contemporary culture For disabled people in religious communities, their families, and clergy and congregants Open the Bible, and Disability is everywhere
