19: On Ability and Disability, Personhood and Motherhood
Peter Mommsen and Susannah Black discuss Peter’s editorial on life and disability. Victoria Reynolds Farmer talks about living as a disabled woman.
Another Life with Joy Marie Clarkson · Plough
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Show Notes
Peter and Susannah discuss Peter’s lead editorial, describing his friendship with and care for a profoundly disabled young man. They consider the simultaneous truths of the good of health, the resurrection of the body, and the full image of God in the bodies and lives of disabled people.
They discuss the phenomenon of the “Ugly laws” of the 19th and 20th centuries, the Nazi eugenics program, the limitations of communitarianism, and the way that questions of disability touch on everybody, because they are about what it means to be a human in a body.
Then they welcome Plough contributor Victoria Reynolds Farmer, a writer with cerebral palsy who discusses her Marian devotion, her recent Catholic conversion, and what that has meant for her marriage and the prospect of motherhood.