Kay Toombs is associate professor emerita of philosophy at Baylor University in Texas. In her work she explores the ways in which contemporary values and the context in which we live our lives impact our efforts to develop a sustainable culture and to form caring communities. In her work related to illness, disability and healthcare, she combines her training in philosophy with her experience of living with neurological disease to reflect on the experience of illness and disability, the care of the chronically and terminally ill, the relationship between health care professionals and patients, and the meaning of suffering and healing, both in the context of Western culture and within the context of intentional Christian community.

Explore Books by Kay Toombs:

www.homesteadheritage.com/books; www.amazon.com/books

• The Meaning of Illness: A Phenomenological Account of the Different Perspectives of Physician and Patient
• How Then Should We Die: Two Opposing Responses to the Challenges of Suffering and Death
• Living at the Boundary, Healing and Incurable Illness
• The Human Dimension of Sustainable Culture

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KEY QUESTIONS:

• What can God show us through disability and serious illness?
• How can Christians turn from radical autonomy to relationship with God and others?
• How can Christian community create a sustainable, caring culture?
• How can faith enrich our experience of caregiving?

KEY SCRIPTURES:

• Psalm 61:1–2: “Hear my cry, O God; listen to my prayer. From the ends of the earth I call to you; I call as my heart grows faint; lead me to the rock that is higher than I.”
• Psalm 133:1: “How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity!”
• John 15:13: “Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”

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