The Afterword

Tag: disability

  • The Invisibles

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    Peter
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    ‘At The Table With Jesus’Stories of encounters between Jesus and those considered ‘marginalised’. There are cruel waysto make a person disappear.A child learns it early:You’re not coming to my birthday.You’re not my friend.And perhaps cruellest of all—to look straight through someoneas though they were not there. We grow older,but we do not always grow out…

  • Politics Is Personal

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    Peter
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    A Poem for Ali France In 2011, Ali France and her younger son were at a shopping centre when an elderly driver lost control of his car and ran into them. She pushed her son in his stroller out of the way but was seriously injured and had her leg amputated as a result. In…