Context is a third critical difference. When Deaf believers study the Bible, they’ll start with the passage’s context before digging deeper. “A lot of Deaf people grow up in families where everybody ...

A new film out this week depicting the life of Jesus aims to reach an audience its director says has long been overlooked. "JESUS: a Deaf Missions film," will be the first of its kind made up of a ...

Stories about Jesus Christ have been shared for centuries. But Joseph Josselyn, a deaf Christian and film director, is telling a story about Christ in American Sign Language — for the first time ever.

Joseph Josselyn remembers being fascinated by the 1977 drama “Jesus of Nazareth” — but as a deaf child, he had to rely on closed captions to catch the dialogue. “I had this thought: I wonder what it ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn., May 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Deaf Missions and Iconic Events Releasing announces the release of the first-ever ASL adaptation for the silver screen, JESUS: a Deaf Missions film.

Misconceptions about deafness continue to shape how society views and treats Deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals. The theme for this year, “No Human Rights Without Sign Language Rights,” highlights ...

An in-depth look at how language deprivation can cause deaf children to fall behind. Nine out of ten deaf children are born to hearing parents. That means that for many parents, the first deaf person ...

Father Michael Depcik, an Oblate of St. Francis de Sales in the Archdiocese of Baltimore who is deaf, converses with Chris Duck, retired coordinator of deaf ministry for the archdiocese, from left, ...

But beyond gender and racial disparities, another group remains critically underrepresented: the Deaf community. Despite the talent within the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing population, opportunities in ...

Tokyo was a whirlwind of colors, sounds and — most importantly — signs. For two weeks in November, the Deaflympics met in the capital city of Japan, where the International ...

Joseph Josselyn remembers being fascinated by the 1977 drama Jesus of Nazareth—but as a Deaf child, he had to rely on closed captions to catch the dialogue. “I had this thought: I wonder what it would ...