I wrote one chapter of Indispensable: A Catholic Guide to Welcoming Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. It came out in September, but I only managed to finish reading the rest more recently. I want to provide a summary of […]
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God Loves the Autistic Mind Now in Audiobook
Ever since I published God Loves the Autistic Mind: Prayer Guide for Those on the Spectrum and Those Who Love Us, people have asked me for an audiobook. I am happy to announce that this just this month, it was […]
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Charity Towards Autistics
Note: This appeared in the November print edition of Restoration, a publication of Madonna House. I had given a talk to the community on autism in consecrated life in August, and they asked me for something like this. You can […]
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Reflections on Being at Orthodox Conference
As many of you know, I was one of two keynote speakers at “Gathered as One Body: Disability, Accessibility, and Inclusion in the Orthodox Church,” a large conference by the Huffington Ecumenical Institute and the GOA (Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of […]
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Ten Years of a Sensory-Friendly Room Near Atlanta
In this third and final installment of examining places that have run a sensory-friendly space for an extended period, we get to possibly the longest-running sensory-friendly room. (First and second in this series.) St. Peter Channel in Roswell, GA (north […]
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Fort Wayne Has the Largest Sensory-Friendly Mass in the USA
St. Vincent de Paul parish in Fort Wayne, Indiana, has the most highly attended sensory-friendly Mass I know of. They have 400-700 people on an average Sunday. They have been going for just under 3 years and have grown big […]
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Autism and Holy Orders Is a Helpful Book
About a year ago, I got Autism and Holy Orders: How to Help Seminarians with Autism Become Effective Priests by Deacon Lawrence Sutton. I held off reading it as I was writing a review of a prior book of his […]
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Autistic Adaptation in Parishes with Terry Mattingly
There are still a lot of things parishes can do to help autistic people in Church. Terry Mattingly is is constantly looking at the interaction between religion and other news, and how the media reports on religion. He is a […]
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First Book on Autism in Catholic Schools
Teaching Students with Autism in a Catholic Setting by Deacon Lawrence Sutton is not a perfect book, but at the moment, it is the first book in this niche and overall a pretty good book. I reviewed it recently for The […]
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Looking at Jesus’ Healing Miracles in a New Light
This is my review of Bethany McKinney Fox, Disability and the Way of Jesus: Holistic Healing in the Gospels and the Church (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2019) which is a work of disability theology focused on Jesus’ miracles. It […]
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