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Accessible love: An interview with Darla Schumm
Get PDFDarla Schumm is professor of religious studies and associate provost for curriculum and faculty engagement at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia. She is the co-editor, with Michael Stoltzfus, of four books, including Disability in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (2011) and Disability and World Religions: An Introduction (2016). In September 2024, Vision co-editor Jackie Wyse-Rhodes sat down with Schumm to discuss her current work on intersections between religious studies and disability studies. At the time of the interview, Schumm had just finished a book manuscript, tentatively titled Healing Ableism: Stories about Disability and Religious Life, that explores the experiences of people who are disabled in their religious communities
Respecting personhood in baptism: A response to greig’s “No exceptions”
Get PDFI argue that it is out of respect for the personhood of people who are profoundly cognitively impaired that we do not choose for them, just as we do not choose for infants or people with dementia. And just as with infants or people with dementia, we know and celebrate that people with profound cognitive impairments are not only a beloved part of our community but also beloved children of God. I argue that alternative rituals to baptism can profoundly express the will of the community in lieu of the consent of the individual
Leadership Development Interventions to Reduce Imposter Phenomenon in the STEM Fields in Minorities
Get PDFBackground: There is a significant lack of diversity in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields. Evidence shows that lack of representation can feed into feelings of imposter phenomenon which in turn influences leadership qualities. Objectives: An argument is made that by providing leadership development training to minorities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields, confidence will be boosted, feelings of imposter phenomenon will be reduced, and thus these students will be retained. Approach: Theories explored to explain this challenge include the imposter phenomenon, servant leadership, and transformational leadership. Results: The goal of this article is to demonstrate the need for research into leadership development of minorities in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields. Conclusions: A program proposal is also introduced as a suggested plan of action based on the findings
The flourishing of interfaith marriages
Get PDFWhile the number of interfaith marriages in the United States is growing, many faith communities do not believe that being part of an interfaith family is a way to enhance or strengthen one’s marriage or faith. As one who is in an interfaith marriage, I have found the opposite to be true. Our interfaith marriage has enhanced our relationship, our understanding of each other’s religion, and our own personal faith journeys.
Like any dynamic in intimate relationships, disagreements or differences have the potential of bringing two people closer together or pushing them apart. Issues like how one approaches money, whether to have kids, or parenting styles can be divisive and break up a relationship. Because one’s faith is an area that reflects core values and often unconscious assumptions and understandings about how to live one’s life, being married to someone with a different faith can either enhance a relationship or end it. My husband, Ben, and I have chosen to allow space for different rituals and traditions to be present in our marriage. Rather than seeing them as threatening, we have accepted and learned from each other within our different faiths. This has led us to appreciate and deepen our connection to our faiths
Assisted reproductive technology and the modern family
Get PDFAssisted reproductive technology (ART) presents us with a new reality, and the concept of family is now entirely open. To be sure, families have always been cobbled together. Infidelity, adoption, divorce and remarriage, tribal alliances, even baptism’s imagery of joining a new people have pushed against solely genetic concepts of family. But our current reality goes further. As Liza Mundy points out, “Never before in history has it been possible for a woman to give birth to an infant who is genetically unrelated to her. Never before has it been possible for women to be the genetic parent of living children to whom she has not given birth.” So, too, never before has it been possible for genetic offspring to be born to deceased parents. Never before have we seen detailed planning in advance for families to have one parent or many parents, with complex or nonexistent genetic relationships. Never before did gay couples create families through donated eggs and the borrowed wombs of surrogates. Never before did lesbian and gay couples coparent children with genetic relationships to both sets of parents. Never before could we guarantee the sex of our children or eliminate from the start the possibility of various disabilities. Never before could prospective parents shop online for the height, weight, skin color, eye color, hair color, or athletic and academic achievements of the donors from whom will come the sperm and eggs that will merge to create their children
Grandmother God
Get PDFThis poem is about my grandparents, who were active in the early days of LGBTQ+ advocacy in the Mennonite Church. They and other advocates in the mid-to-late 1980s began the work of trying to make room for LGBTQ+ people in the Mennonite Church. I am deeply grateful for the previous generations of advocates and justice workers who began paving the way for the level of acceptance and welcome that I do get to experience today. My own grandparents have taught me something of God: God is a grandmother. She is fiercely loving of her grandchildren and stands up to anyone who would exclude them. More than anything, she wants her beloved grandchildren to thrive in a church that loves them as much as she does
Disentanglement
Get PDFIn a letter to her sister, a young woman tells how she has been invited to join a physics group run by the famous Professor Heisenberg. There she both shows her understanding of the new quantum physics and meets a young man who she becomes attached to. Sadly he reveals his anti-semitic views and she realises she must free herself from this relationship. She is able to do so through the intervention of another physicist, Wigner, who offers her a scholarship for America.
Thank you for women, and moms, on Mother’s Day: A congregational prayer
Get PDFI have two children by adoption. I am so grateful for birth mothers and foster mothers. I remember years of leading parent-child blessing services on Mother’s Day and how difficult that was for me before I had children. Even now, Mother’s Day is a tough day for children who are adopted. In our congregation we have people who have birth grandchildren, had difficult mothers, or are raising their sister’s children. We have a host of strong and courageous women. This prayer is for all such people
Norda
Get PDFKristoforo is leading an expedition over the ice walls that surround his utopian homeland to the discover the lost world described in ancient tomes. His expedition must overcome natural hazards and unexpected violence, before confronting its greatest dilemma: return to the temporary safety of home, or forge ahead into a world more dangerous than they could have imagined