[Faith-talk] {Spam?} Re: Appreciation Please!

[Sarah Blake LaRose]

This leads to the other things I wanted to say earlier. I think that the 
fact that people aren't calling the NFB to advocate with their church 
doesn't mean there are not access problems in churches. It often simply 
means that people are making the best of a situation and coping with what 
is, and taking the good parts because something is better than nothing at 
all.

I have struggled throughout all my life with church situations that are less 
than what I want and need. When my seminary ordered a braille hymnal, I 
cried and didn't believe it would ever come. It took four months to arrive. 
On the day that a faculty member handed me a folder with lyrics for the 
day's chapel service, I couldn't sing because I kept reading the lyrics to 
songs I was supposed to be familiar with and crying. I had never learned 
them because we sang them so infrequently. I could sing the melody on "la la 
la" all day long, but that isn't worship.

Nursery work is a major barrier that so many people face. I worked in church 
nursery for several years. I have an article about it on my web site that I 
will dig up and post for those of you who may want to share it with your 
churches. It is quite old, but I don't think it will matter. I can't lift 
babies for prolonged periods anymore, so I am mostly ok with not working 
nursery at this point and do other things I am good at. But I still want my 
church to acknowledge this piece of my life as normal because it might make 
a difference for someone else who would be their best nursery worker.

I have complicated feelings about specific discussions about biblical text 
and religious beliefs if the stated purpose of a group is interfaith. It is 
not that I am opposed, but the important thing is that we do it in a way 
that respects the interfaith nature. I still don't feel that I have a clear 
picture of the communities of faith group, which I assumed the list was an 
offshoot of. This makes a difference to me.




Sarah Blake LaRose, M.Div., accessible instruction in biblical languages
Personal mail: sarah at sarahblakelarose.com
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-----Original Message----- 
From: andrew edgcumbe via Faith-Talk
Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2016 6:57 PM
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Cc: andrew edgcumbe
Subject: Re: [Faith-talk] Appreciation Please!

i feel the same way the thing is this  we should be alloud to discuss jesus
while all faiths are here and things i personally feel if we are going to
be that nit picky  on what we do here we need to re evaluate what we really
want from this group.  it is either that or we become  more closed minded
and create  our own group and get away from this one so we can discuss
biblical topics. some people don't have the fellowship they want to have
with other believers and  stuff like that.  and church can be a very hard
place to fit in to.

On Sun, Sep 4, 2016 at 6:50 PM, Paul Smith via Faith-Talk <
faith-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Naimalee, I know where you're coming from.  In fact I wish we lived closer
> so that we could put our heads together and somehow discuss the situation,
> because I'm in exactly the same position you're in.  Paul
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