A Kind of Upside-Downness: Learning Disabilities and Transformational Community
David Ford · Deborah Ford · Ian Randall
Nov 2019 · Jessica Kingsley Publishers
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One of the great prophetic figures of our time was Jean Vanier, founder of the L'Arche communities, where those with and without disabilities share life together. This book tells the story of a new, practical development, inspired by Vanier, and taking further both his thought and the practice of L'Arche. Lyn's House is a small Christian house of hospitality and friendship in Cambridge, set in an open community of volunteers and supporters. Its story told here contains moving accounts of its origins and development, and of the friendships it enables. The contributors, all members of the wider Lyn's House community, also reflect on its meaning, and explore the implications for both church and society of this creative response to Vanier's call. Not only does the book convey the spirit of Lyn's House and its transformative effects on those who participate in it, it also offers inspiration and a practical guide to any who wish to begin something similar.
About the author
David F. Ford OBE has been involved with L'Arche and Jean Vanier for three decades, and has a global reputation as a theologian, speaker, interfaith practitioner, and inspirational leader.
Deborah Hardy Ford has also had long term involvement with Jean Vanier and L'Arche and is a chaplain, psychotherapist, writer and pastoral supervisor working in Cambridge.
Ian Randall is a leading historian of intentional communities, a spiritual director, and Research Associate at the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide.
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