The Selfish Giant   This children story by Oscar Wilde is wonderful for many reasons. Those who grew up in the seventies and watch TV will remember it was played every Christmas. It the story of a Giant who learns the value of community. he is redeemed when he helps a child, smaller then all the others, and unable to climb a tree. He later discovers that the child was the risen Christ. 

As I am building Accessiblechurch.ca. I am trying to do so using tools that make the ideas and content accessible to as many different people as possible.

Accessiblechurch.ca is not intended to be a complete resource on making your church accessible. I am trying also to demonstrate that there are existing free resources on the Internet that congregations  can use to improve accessibility.

I was home in bed, sick, and I needed something to watch. Having cancelled my cable TV a few years ago, I decided to give Itune movies a try and I found One Week.. It appealed to me as it was the story of one week in Ben Tyler (Joshua Jackson) life. A Toronto man in his mid twenties engaged to be married, just starting out in his career as a teacher and writer. The film starts with him being diagnosed with an aggressive cancer that is in stage 4.   With treatment  the Doctor gives him a 10% chance of beating it.

Here is a 1 hour lecture by a women with Autism. She is a best selling author, and in this video explains how autism can effect people, and simply explains the complexness of Autism Spectrum Disorders.It is from my web page www.accessiblechurch.ca, where I have many sorter videos by people in the ASD explain how it effects them.

Social Justice in Canada and Disability

• Canadians with disabilities disproportionately live in poverty.
• Canadians with disabilities lack basic disability related supports to participate in community life including religious life.
• Canadians with disabilities want jobs, access to education, the right to l
  

 "Even at church, people would not shake my hand." ⁽¹⁾

Check out the new revisions and format to Accessiblechurch.ca. 

Maybe the problem with our Language regarding faith and God is that we are using words written by theologians and politicians to create our statements of faith.

Perhaps we should be using art created by musicians, writers and other artists in creating expressions of faith, or any statements.

Was not the New and Old Testament created by artists, even Paul could be consider an artist as much as a theologian.

Since my sister has been ill, I have been getting to know more lay people in my congregation, and I am realizing how different I really am. Last year I was officially diagnosed with PDD-NOS a condition in the autism spectrum. Very little is known about Autism.