Before he was elected Speaker of the House on 25 Oct. 2023, Mike Johnson seems to have eluded the spotlight with the fancy footwork of a ballerina dancing into it. Then, suddenly, people cared about his opinions on the issues most dividing Americans today. In a recent Fox News interview, Johnson explained his worldview only…
Tag: cultural disability studies
Walking Steadily Once Again: Miracles, Biblical Epic, and the Heroics of Healing
A man who isn’t simply blind but speechless and possessed (Matt. 12.22-3); a paralytic who’s prostrate by an inaccessible fountain (John 1-15); someone who’s sightless, his eyes spat on and caked with mud (John 9.1-12): all three walk not into a bar but back to their homes, to tell of a healer named Jesus. I…