Celebrating Disability Pride Month: Dani Morsberger on Disability Awareness and Theology (Ep 36)

Jonny interviews our friend Dani on a host of topics revolving around disabilities, including a deeper education on Disability Pride Month, ways of understanding how to better organize our world for disabled people, challenging ableist mindsets, and how all of us can get involved in the cause. They also get deep into Disability Theology and how Jesus navigates disabilities in the Bible, treating people in a revolutionary way that allows those who were outcasted to rejoin their communities. Dani brings it with her rich education and wisdom on disabilities, sharing some of her own personal journey and experiences as well.

Also, the pastors follow-up with an email on our Melissa Florer-Bixler interview, and they end the time with a little Spiritual Show and Tell on beach trips, poems, and data crunching!

//Notes//

-Interview-

Disability-related Profiles to follow on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/imani_barbarin?s=21

https://twitter.com/bennessb?s=21

https://twitter.com/jenbrea?s=21

https://twitter.com/shannondingle?s=21

https://twitter.com/mattbc?s=21

https://twitter.com/mikemchargue?s=21

https://twitter.com/odyo11?s=21

https://twitter.com/coffeespoonie?s=21

https://twitter.com/julierehmeyer?s=21

https://twitter.com/mollybofficial?s=21

Disability Hashtags:

#disabilitytwitter
#NEISvoid (no end in sight void)
#disabilitypridemonth
#doctorsaredickheads
#stoptheshock
#actuallyautistic

Disability organizations to donate to:

MEAction
Polybio

Disability YouTube videos:

https://youtu.be/LhFVnlLnKjM

https://youtu.be/Fb3yp4uJhq0

https://youtu.be/og9SgmqRYzU

https://youtu.be/aPEuYrtuxEk

https://youtu.be/4WIP1VgPnco

-Show and Tell-

PRRI data on United States Religion:
https://www.prri.org/research/2020-census-of-american-religion/#_ftn1

Jonny’s analysis of the PRRI data:
https://www.jonnyrashid.com/why-its-a-good-thing-for-the-church-that-people-are-leaving-white-evangelicalism/

As Kingfishers Catch Fire, poem:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44389/as-kingfishers-catch-fire\

BY GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS
As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;
As tumbled over rim in roundy wells
Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's
Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name;
Each mortal thing does one thing and the same:
Deals out that being indoors each one dwells;
Selves — goes itself; myself it speaks and spells,
Crying Whát I dó is me: for that I came.

I say móre: the just man justices;
Keeps grace: thát keeps all his goings graces;
Acts in God's eye what in God's eye he is —
Chríst — for Christ plays in ten thousand places,
Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his
To the Father through the features of men's faces.

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