An active pastor, husband, father, and triathlete, Bob Molsberry was nearly killed in 1997 in a hit and run accident on a rural highway. After a long period of recovery and rehabilitation, he is a paraplegic who has remained active in family, ministry, and athletics.

This book reflects on his experience of disability not as a medical condition in serach of a cure, nor as a tragedy to be pitied, but as a cross-cultural adventure similar to learning to live in a foreign country. Molsberry also offers biblical and theological reflection that confronts the Bible's perspectives on disability--that it is a matter of heroic suffering or miraculous cure, and often interpreted as a consequence of sin

Confronting the stereotypes surrounding the experience of having a disability, Molsberry compares his post-trauma adjustment to an immersion in an alien culture. Noting that the challenges are not just physical or mental, he discusses cultural, political, and theological factors, as well as medical advances, with humor and honesty.

115 pages, softcover from Augsburg.

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