Naomi JacobsMy slides from both my #CDS24 presentations are now up on my blog (one on #ADHD & spiritual wandering, the other on #ActivistResearch to resource disabled Christians).
https://naomilawsonjacobs.com/slides-from-the-disability-studies-conference-2024/
It was a great conference - check out the #CDS24 hashtag at Bluesky and the other place for summaries and ideas from other papers shared there.
Sneak peak of a slide, featuring art by the amazing Emma Major. #SST2024 #DisabilityTheology
Anyone else going to #SST2024 next week? I'm really looking forward to hearing @amv , Carlton Turner and many other great theologians and religious studies bods. (My paper is on Tuesday at 3- 'Healing the Wounds of Ableism: Curative Prayer and the Normative Body-Mind.') #Theology #DisabilityTheology #Religidons
I’m a guest on the Autism and #Theology Podcast with my co-author @emjric , hosted by @krysiawally . Listen at the link below, where there’s also a transcript. Enjoy!
Autism and Theology Podcast | Disability and Justice with Naomi Lawson Jacobs and Emily Richardson
This week, Krysia is joined by Dr Naomi Lawson Jacobs and Emily Richardson to discuss their book, At the Gates: Disability Justice and the Churches. We have a structured discussion on four main areas related to the book: research and theology, barriers to belonging, church on the margins, and...
It was fab to talk to @krysiawally for the #Autism & #Theology podcast with @emjric today - the episode should be out in a couple of months. I really enjoy this podcast on theology & neurodivergent flourishing in faith/non-faith communities (and their fondness for listeners' cats!) Try this past ep on Krysia's work: https://podcastaddict.com/autism-and-theology-podcast/episode/166220717 #DisabilityTheology
Autism and Theology Podcast • The Impossible Subject • Podcast Addict
This week, Ian is joined by Krysia to speak about her research on ‘The Impossible Subject: Belonging as a Neurodivergent in Congregations.’ Krysia discusses how she reflected on her own neurodivergent experience to explore exclusion and stigma in communities.If you have any questions, or just want to say hi, email us at [email protected] or find us on twitter @autismtheology. Thi
New at my blog: 'Joy on Wheels: An animist spiritual experience of wheelchairs (a post inspired by Julia Watts Belser)' https://naomilawsonjacobs.com/joy-on-wheels-an-animist-spiritual-experience-of-wheelchairs-a-post-inspired-by-julia-watts-belser/ #Wheelchairs #Disability #DisabilityTheology
Joy on Wheels: An animist spiritual experience of wheelchairs (a post inspired by Julia Watts Belser) - Naomi Lawson Jacobs
I’ve been having a moment of radical recognition with Julia Watts Belser’s writing on animism and wheelchairs, in her book Loving Our Own Bones. In a chapter titled 'God on Wheels,' Belser writes: Over the decades, I’ve built relationships with many different wheelchairs, getting to know their preferences and particulars, coming to understand how they
The Mad & Crip Theology Press have a new book out soon. 'The Poetry of Belonging' (Iris J. Gildea) brings together poetry, feminist theology & critical trauma theology. Ebook avail soon. Support grassroots publishers and authors pushing critical & disciplinary boundaries! https://www.madandcriptheologypress.ca/product-page/the-poetry-of-belonging-healing-with-the-language-of-the-wound #Theology #TraumaTheology #DisabilityTheology
Vol 27:4 of the Journal of #Disability & #Religion is out - special issue on #Neurodiversity and Theological Education, ed. Erin Raffety and Michael Paul Cartledge. It was fantastic to write an article for this groundbreaking special issue, featuring many neurodivergent voices. And it includes my first peer-reviewed article - 'Speaking With Us, Not For Us: Neurodiversity, Theology & Justice' https://tandfonline.com/toc/wrdh21/27/4 #Theology #DisabilityTheology #Publications #AcademicChatter
“Everything I know about God comes through these disabled bones.” “Disability has taught me much about the potent spiritual subversiveness of being radically comfortable in my own skin, of daring to find the presence of God in this fierce and fragile flesh.” - Julia Watts Belser, saying everything I wanted to read during the long, painful literature reviewing years of my PhD. (I’m reading ‘Loving Our Own Bones’ for a disability theology book group. Transformative stuff.) #DisabilityTheology #DisabilityBiblicalStudies #DisabilityStudies
Naomi Lawson JacobsAnnouncing a call for content from the Mad & Crip Theology Press for a forthcoming anthology of lived #disability #theology. We're seeking reflections, research and theology that show how lived experience of disability shapes our theological thinking and religious practice. Interested in work from all religious traditions & on non-religion. Working title - 'Our Disability Theologies: Body-Minds & God-Talk.' Full details and Plain English version at https://madandcriptheologypress.ca/general-9