A disabled God

Disabilities as divine possibilities

Abstract

Imagining a disabled God means wondering what a Deaf God knows and how a Deaf person encounters God; it means marveling at how an autistic God perceives the world and what she might teach us about the divine in the world; it means pondering the depths of a nonspeaking God and their expressions of love. To know all the ways of God, we must turn to the many ways people are at home in and as bodies in this world and learn to love ourselves and each other, in all our limits and varying capacities, without desire to change. Imagining the source of life through the kaleidoscope of disability experiences is one way we might move toward this kind of being together.