The Disability and Faith Forum highlights The Betrayal of Witness, a serious collection of essays reckoning with Jean Vanier’s abuse, influence, and legacy, while inviting honest reflection on spiritual authority, disability theology, and safeguarding.

In the Christian faith, Karis conveys God’s grace, the gift of God’s radically accessible goodness in Christ. Through charisma, it also expresses our conviction that everybody has value and unique God-given gifts.   

Welcome! You can call me Junes...I’m Autistic and Catholic! I want to share my faith and village with you!

How can Canadian churches “build back better,” or—more accurately—create a “new normal” after COVID that’s healthier than the old? I would simply, and strongly, recommend one strategy that works for us at the IDRC: just ask, just listen.

Imagine what it could be like if pat answers, out-of-context bible verses and Christian clichés were ruled off-limits at church. What if saying you’re ok when you’re not ok wasn’t ok in the church?

I am limited in my humanity to understand why it took me 37 years to find my husband, and why it took me 9 years to learn teaching was not for me, but I also know that in those times of waiting the Lord was doing important work.