Promoting Disability Engagement and Jew-Gentile Unity Through a Biblical Lens. 

Dr. Thomas Boehm’s work explores the intersections of disability and faith, family and flourishing.

At Wheaton College, he serves in multiple capacities, including as the Ann Haskins Associate Professor of Special Education, Chair of the Department of Education, Director of the Wheaton Center for Faith and Disability, Director of Special Education Programs, and, by courtesy, Associate Professor of Christian Formation and Ministry. He also leads the College’s emerging Jewish Christian Relations Initiative.

Beyond Wheaton, Dr. Boehm is the founder and director of Faith for ALL, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing disability ministry in faith communities. Across these overlapping roles, his work centers on building inclusive communities among Jews and gentiles, with the aim of strengthening family qualityof life and promoting the flourishing of people both with and without disabilities.

Dr. Boehm's interest in disability began as an early career professional working in the social services sector but was catapulted in new directions when he became the parent of a child with a disability. He then decided to rethink his entire worldview by studying the Bible at Trinity International University where he earned a masters degree in divinity. He then went on to teach special education for students with significant support needs and earned a doctorate in special education at Vanderbilt University. His dissertation research involved gathering perspectives from almost 900 families within two regions of the United States with a son or daughter with intellectual disability in order to understand and improve family quality of life.

Dr. Boehm enjoys cultivating what he calls, "Relational depth for Kingdom breadth," which involves pressing in to deeper relationships of transparency, vulnerability, and authenticity to love God and others well for the sake of seeing the Kingdom of God established here on Earth. He does this first and foremost with his wife and five children and together they are committed to building inclusive community whereby people at the margins of society are embraced with God's extravagant and compelling love.