Disability and Church: Intersectionality

 

Intersectionality is a way of describing how social categories (e.g. disability, race, gender) combine to create overlapping systems of discrimination or disadvantage. In this webinar, which I moderated, we explored the key issues in the context of faith and the church. 

Panel: 

Lamar Hardwick (he/him) (DMin, Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary), also known as "the autism pastor," is the lead pastor at Tri-Cities Church in East Point, Georgia. He is the author of Epic Church, I Am Strong: The Life and Journey of an Autistic Pastor, and the award-winning book Disability and The Church: A Vision for Diversity and Inclusion (InterVarsity Press 2021). 

Naomi Lawson Jacobs (they/them) is a researcher, disability advocate and trainer, who completed a PhD on the experiences of disabled Christians in 2019. Their book, At the Gates: Disability, Justice and the Churches, is out in June 2022, co-written by Emily Richardson. The book shares disabled people’s stories of marginalisation in churches, their cries for justice from the edge, and their transformative theologies for the whole church. 

Fiona MacMillan (she/her) is a disabled and neuordivergent advocate, practitioner, speaker and writer. She chairs the Disability Advisory Group at St Martin in the Fields, is a trustee of Inclusive Church, leads the planning team for their annual disability conference and convenes the Shut In Shut Out Shut Up series for HeartEdge. Fiona is a member of the Nazareth Community and was recently elected to General Synod. 

Rachel Mann (she/her) is an Anglican priest, writer, scholar and broadcaster. Author of 12 books, she has written theologically about her experience of hidden disability and chronic illness in the critically-acclaimed Dazzling Darkness (Wild Goose, 2012/2020) & Love’s Mysteries (Canterbury Press, 2020). She is a member of the Church of England’s Theological Advisory Board, The Faith & Order Commission.

This webinar was organised by HeartEdge and Church Times.

Explore the topic further with Shut In, Shut Out, Shut Up, a disabled-led space for challenging questions and honest conversations about theology, faith and church. Topics: 10 June - Sexuality; 17 June - Race; and 24 June - Poverty.

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