Foreword and Acknowledgements

Foreword

One of the things I welcome about this creative and timely book is its confidence that Scripture is the starting point for thinking about disability. For some decades activists and academics have been debating disability issues, often expressing radical and new ideas. Yet the Church has taken some time to catch on to the idea that some of our perspectives on disability are being challenged. Words like ‘charity’ are now seen as inappropriate and are being replaced with the concepts of ‘rights’ and ‘justice’. The idea of doing something ‘for’ disabled people is being replaced by disabled people doing things for themselves in partnership with others, wherever possible…