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Disability History Month with SCM

21 Nov 2024

Disability History Month runs every year from mid-November to mid-December and aims to promote the rights of people with disabilities and their struggle for equality both now and in the past. The month is also a call to action, urging all of us to reflect on how we can dismantle ableism in our...

“You don’t need to feel sorry for me – but you DO need to accommodate me”: a provocation for Disability Pride Month

13 Jul 2022

Content note: brief references to bullying; non-clerical abuse; psychosis.

I have heard voices since I was 5 years old, but the voices I heard from ages 5 - 20 were not psychosis: it’s just the way my brain operates. I had no issues attending church, for example; I’d go...

Not Just Ramps and Disabled Toilets: A Movement Towards the Jesus Model of Disability

3 Jul 2019

One winter’s evening almost six years ago now I found myself involved in a conversation via Facebook with a bunch of people that I did not know. It began with a thread bemoaning the lack of good Christian literature on the subject of faith and disability. This conversation carried on for several...