# Roundup: disability, R.S. Thomas, church and state, Indigenous justice, Jim Wallace, secularism

> People with serious handicaps who’ve been rejected can only grow to greater fulfillment if they know they’re loved.

28 April 2011 · News

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### [Jesus Knows Sign Language](https://blog.sojo.net/2011/04/21/jesus-knows-sign-language/)

People with serious handicaps who’ve been rejected can only grow to greater fulfillment if they know they’re loved. There’s a difference between doing things for people out of generosity and being with people …

### [R.S. Thomas: Poet of the Cross](https://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/episodes/by-topic/r-s-thomas-poet-of-the-cross/8661/)

R.S. Thomas, the Welsh poet and Anglican priest who died a little more than a decade ago, left a body of work that is slowly becoming recognised as among the best and most important religious poetry of the twentieth century.

### [A leap of faith for church and state](https://www.smh.com.au/nsw/a-leap-of-faith-for-church-and-state-20110421-1dqoo.html)

Fuelled by immigration, religion has become increasingly geographic over the past 30 years.

### [Raising up voices for Indigenous justice](https://blog.sojo.net/2011/04/25/raising-up-voices-for-indigenous-justice/)

Indigenous people have been “invisibilised.” Few people care. Our social consciousness has placed Native Americans in the past — people who used to live here.

### [Wallace slammed by clergy](https://www.starobserver.com.au/news/australia-news/new-south-wales-news/2011/04/26/wallace-slammed-by-clergy/50334)

Prominent Christians have criticised Australian Christian Lobby head Jim Wallace over comments he made on Twitter on Anzac Day.

### [The march of ‘aggressive secularism’](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1380156/Scotlands-Roman-Catholic-priest-Keith-OBrien-attacks-marginalisation-Christians.html)

Scotland’s top Roman Catholic priest attacks the marginalisation of Christians

### [Mystery dies when we don’t see ourselves as part of eternity](https://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/mystery-dies-when-we-dont-see-ourselves-as-part-of-eternity-20110427-1dwmy.html)

It makes me weep that church must court popularity by stripping itself of all mystery, depth and texture, installing mammoth plasma-screens in the nave, salesmen in the pulpit and ATMs in the foyer just to get bums on misericords, as yet another casualty of the flat-out zombie race to the bottom.