Don Carson ends speaking engagements due to ill health

Milla Ling-Davies  |  People
Date posted:  26 Jan 2025
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Don Carson ends speaking engagements due to ill health

Don Carson.

Don Carson has stepped back from his involvement in ministry, due to limitations arising from his Parkinson’s disease.

In a Christmas letter, Carson (78) said that while the physical limitations are slowing him down, it is the cognitive limitations that are having the biggest impact. He shared a moment where he tried to convince his neurologist that they were living in 2008, adding: ‘I could not remember the name of the first president of the United States. (I thought of offering to provide the name of the first Prime Minister of Canada, which I could remember, but I doubt that the neurologist would have been impressed).’

He finished on a note of comfort, writing: ‘I am not suffering from anything that a good general resurrection can’t fix.’

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