Reframing Disability: Agency, Possibility, and Radical Dependency / Calli Micale

There's a truism that "there are only two types of people in the world: those who are disabled and those who will become disabled." But how does our thinking about normalcy, capacity, independence, and autonomy make us miss what disability can show us about human flourishing? In this episode, Evan Rosa invites Calli Micale (PhD, Yale) to discuss the theological and moral dimensions of disability through stories of her care and service with the physically and intellectually disabled, including reflections on agency and the feeling of personal power, the suffering of chronic pain, maintaining a sense of hope and possibility amidst lost, and the role that spirituality plays in a person integrating a disabling experience; the biblical and theological stories that create and critique our narratives of disability; and finally an examination of the conditions of possibility not just for flourishing, but for making life work at all. This episode was made possible in part by the generous support of the Tyndale House Foundation. For more information, visit tyndale.foundation.