In this deeply personal and challenging reflection, Heidi Janz explores the connection between disability, MAiD, ableism, and Christian witness in Canada. Drawing from her own story, the life and death of Tracy Latimer, and her work in disability ethics, Janz calls the church to affirm the dignity of disabled lives and resist the cultural belief that dependence makes a life less valuable.
Pope Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas becomes a powerful reflection on AI, disability theology, and the meaning of human fullness. This article invites readers to see limitation not as a flaw to overcome, but as part of the gift of embodied life, where belonging, love, and communion offer a truer vision of what it means to be human.
While in some ways the COVID-19 pandemic is unifying the community around the globe, in others it is legitimating archaic values and hierarchies.
During this season of forced and mutual deprivation, when our consolations are taken from us one by one and we are continually and graphically reminded of the mortality of our species, I turn to the men I support for wisdom and guidance.
These men, despite their depths of hard-won wisdom and delightful companionship, are well-accustomed to strangers keeping their distance in public places. The conditions we ironically bemoan on social media are barely distinguishable from how they have spent most of the days of their lives. They are old pros at quarantine, and they are teaching me.
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