Why Not College for the Disabled?

Why Not College for the Disabled? | Christianity Today | A Magazine of Evangelical Conviction: Russ Kinkade holds up a pen. If it were broken, he says, he would toss it. 'So if you objectify people and see they are broken, then it makes logical sense that you would discard them,' concludes Kinkade, executive vice president of Shepherds Ministries.

Located south of Milwaukee, the nonprofit Christian organization has 53 years of experience in overcoming the perception that people with disabilities have little to contribute to society and thus can be discarded.

In 2008, the ministry launched Shepherds College, the nation's first faith-based residential college exclusively for students with intellectual disabilities. At the end of the current academic year, Shepherds, a three-year program, will graduate its first class.