Philip Wetherell

I received news that an old friend, Philip Wetherell, died last Monday. For the last few years of his life he suffered from motor neurone disease, which left him paralysed. In the last couple of years he was only able to communicate using a device called a Megabee. So it seemed appropriate to write about him on a day when people are being asked to blog about empowering people with disabilities.

I first met Philip 40 years ago, when I first went to Namibia. He had been studying theology at...