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Make An Accessible World Campaign

28 Jul 2025

This year we worked with SCM communities across Britain to tell us what they cared about. What came out was that public transport in the UK is not fair. It excludes people who are disabled, many of whom are members of our community. We came together in art, poetry, and performance to create a...

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...