
Alt txt: Image of our guest, Vinh Nguyen, and one of our hosts: Dr. John Anthony Dunne. In this episode we are joined by Vinh Nguyen to talk about parenting children with Down syndrome. Vinh is a PhD student at McMaster Divinity College, and has served as a pastor in different capacities for over ten…

Alt txt: Image of our guests, Naomi and Mike Bird, with four of our cohosts: Dr. John Anthony Dunne, Dr. Sydney Tooth, Stephanie Kate Judd, and Rev. Dr. Chris Porter. In this episode we discuss parenting children on the spectrum with Naomi and Mike Bird. Naomi Bird is Assistant Children’s and Family minister at her…

Alt txt: Image of our guest, Prof. John Swinton, and a few of our co-hosts, Dr. John Anthony Dunne, Stephanie Kate Judd, and Rev. Dr. Chris Porter. In this episode we’re talking about Dementia with Prof. John Swinton, who is Chair of Divinity and Religious Studies and Professor of Theology at the University of Aberdeen…

ALT txt: photo of our guest Dr. Meghan Henning and two of our co-hosts: Dr. John Anthony Dunne and Stephanie Kate Judd with the title of the episode: “Hell & Disability in Early Christian Literature with Dr. Meghan Henning.” Continuing our series on Disability & Theology we are joined by Dr. Meghan Henning to talk…

Alt txt: image of our guest, Dr. Eric Harvey, along with two of our co-hosts, Stephanie Kate Judd and Dr. Madison Pierce, along with the title of the episode: “Blindness in the Hebrew Bible with Dr. Eric Harvey.” In the second episode of our series on disability, we discuss blindness in the Hebrew Bible with…

Alt txt: image of our guest, Prof. John Swinton, with some of our co-hosts, Dr. John Anthony Dunne, Dr. Grace Emmett, Stephanie Kate Judd, Dr. Madison Pierce, and Rev. Dr. Chris Porter, along with the title of the episode: “Introducing Disability & Theology with Prof. John Swinton.” This episode is the first episode in our…

In this episode we discuss how churches can be more inclusive of people with disability and varying ability. John Anthony Dunne talks with Brittany Hurlbert, whose work is in educational and therapeutic settings, working primarily with people who have autism. After explaining what autism is, what its relationship to asperger’s is, and some general misconceptions,…

What constitutes an unreached people group? Generally, it applies to a group, usually related to a geographical area, in which less than 2% of the population identify as Christian. Furthermore, it is where there is no local culture evangelizing to the rest of the culture. Being deaf is not geographically contained, but it is its…