From Inclusion to Justice

From Inclusion to Justice Disability, Ministry, and Congregational Leadership Erin RaffetyBaylor University Press, 2022ISBN 9781481316941 Softcover, 238 pp.8.7 X 5.9 X 0.7 inches | 0.8 pounds American Christianity tends to view disabled persons as problems to be solved rather than people with experiences and gifts that enrich the church. Churches have generated policies, programs, and curricula geared toward "including" disabled people while still maintaining "able-bodied" theologies, ministries, care, and leadership. Ableism--not a lack of ramps, finances, or accessible worship--is the biggest obstacle for disabled ministry in America. In From Inclusion to Justice, Erin Raffety argues that what our churches need is not more programs for disabled people but rather the pastoral tools to repent of able-bodied theologies and practices, listen to people with disabilities, lament ableism and injustice, and be transformed by God's ministry through disabled leadership. Without a paradigm shif