The purpose of this blog is take a theological look at disability and disadvantage through the lens of social inclusion. People invariably hold deep seated and yet unarticulated prejudices that instinctively excludes those different from themselves. This is nowhere more evident than those disadvantaged by society because they have an impairment of one kind or another.
I want to theologically question whether impairment and disability are the same thing and explore a different reading of what we think we see.
A London underground map is only of use for when travelling by tube. Try navigating across London in a car using such a map. In reality the Map is not the Territory but a one dimensional guide for a specific situation. Often our cultural map is not sufficiently comprehensive as an inclusion tool and inevitably leads to an exclusive society that marked by the rejections it makes.
If our cultural map creates false boundaries who we excluding; ourselves? Didn't Jesus in the New Testament change the boundary of thinking by the question; "who is my neighbour".
Culture is surely about values; but whose? Next post - redrawing the Map.
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