Devan Stahl is a bioethicist, professor, clinical ethicist, and author based in Waco, Texas. She teaches bioethics, disability ethics, and medical humanities, works in clinical ethics at Baylor Scott & White, and researches disability ethics, theology, and medicine’s intersection with the visual arts.
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Feb 17, 2026
How Does Christ Help Us Understand the Relationship Between Disability and Sin?
Devan Stahl
Looking to Christ’s incarnation, we must distinguish fallenness from sin. While human nature is fragile and subject to disability, sin belongs to the will, not the body. In assuming fallen humanity without sin, Christ reveals disability as part of loved, created finitude—not divine punishment.
