Unforgiveness is a prison mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.

The Issues Etcetera Book of the Month for January

will help you break out of the unforgiveness in your own life.

It's titled Unforg, How God's Foriveness

transforms our lives. This new book is published by Concordia Publishing

House. Their phone number 1-800 3 325, 3040, or learn more about unforgivable at issues ETC.org.

Unforgivable, how God's forgiveness transforms our lives, the issues, etc, Book of the Month. How does the church a congregation, a pastor deal with people who have special needs?

We're talking about a wide spectrum of situations here from special needs that may be physical,

they may be mental or developmental, they may even be simply something like autism.

Welcome back to issues, etc. I'm Todd Wilkin.

Joining us to talk about the church and autism, Dr. Carey Chittick, she's director of

Lutheran Learning Programs, an Associate Professor in the School of Education

at Concordia University Irvine, California, and she formerly served as Director of Special Education

at Concordia University, Texas.

Dr. Chittic, welcome.

Thank you so much for having me today, Todd.

So why do you want to talk about special needs in terms of giftedness?

That's a great question and I thank you and first and foremost my prayer today is for

for God to be glorified and to encourage your listeners to share the gospel with everyone and that is a big piece of those that

learn differently have diverse abilities that they are gifted.

God created all people in his image.

We are fearfully and wonderfully made

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