Single Parenting, Disability, and the Church's Blind Spot
The Esau McCaulley Podcast
Esau McCaulley
5.0 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Author and mother of six, Katie Blackburn joins Esau for a conversation around single parenting, disability, and faith. Katie shares her experience raising a son with severe autism, the grief and grace that come with it, and how the church has responded, sometimes with welcome, other times with unintentional exclusion. Together, they explore why single parents and families affected by disability often feel unseen in church spaces, and what communities can do to change that. They also talk about Katie's new children's book The Very Best Baseball Game, inspired by a local disability league, and how stories can help us better understand diversity, empathy, and belonging.
0:00 - Show Starts
2:15 - Mount Rushmore of Family Films
7:55 - Single Motherhood
10:42 - Writing as Therapy
18:09 - Sponsor - No Small Endeavor - Award-winning podcast where theologians, philosophers, and best-selling authors talk about faith with Lee C. Camp. Start listening today: https://pod.link/1513178238
19:21 - Church with Single People
24:28 - The Very Best Baseball Game
33:20 - What Can Churches Do for Disabled Children?
42:38 - End Credits
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Passion in my pockets where my pennies should be. |
| 0:10.0 | What they selling is cheap so I'm buying that this freedom is free. |
| 0:13.0 | I've been becoming me. |
| 0:15.0 | See when Jesus taking the lead with purpose I bleed and riles like doing under the heat. |
| 0:19.0 | Defeat is a never. |
| 0:20.0 | You can't reattach |
| 0:21.2 | with a sever what's bringing you pleasure can tell you where you stacking your treasure |
| 0:24.6 | when storm is your weather know that it gets worse for it's better |
| 0:27.5 | hello everyone welcome to the esau macaa mccall podcast. I'm your host, Esau McCauley. |
| 0:39.6 | I'm joined by the not co-host, but producer of the show, Mike. |
| 0:44.6 | I mean, not co-host, but maybe. |
| 0:47.0 | Co-host-ish. |
| 0:48.8 | Co-host and training, maybe. |
| 0:50.0 | We're thinking about it. |
| 0:51.4 | We're considering it. |
| 0:52.3 | You know, let the people say, if we get, I don't know, 15 comments on like, let me up that. No, 15, you said it. Maybe 25 comments to say, let Mike cook. That exact phrase, then maybe you get to be the coach. You saw such a low opinion of me that he's like, Mike doesn't have 15 friends that will do him a favor. |
| 1:12.5 | You're right. |
| 1:12.7 | I can set this at 15 and there's no way we're hitting it. |
| 1:15.6 | You're right. |
| 1:16.5 | But we also have Katie Blackburn, right? |
| 1:19.8 | So my brain. |
| 1:21.0 | Mike has got me disheveled. |
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