Today in my world has been all about @livingedgeconf.bsky.social and focused on community driven liberation theology, so I am so tired I can't feel my body existing, but once again in awe at the defiant, beauty and resilience that is fostered in disabled lives

We now welcome our keynote speaker, Rabbi Julia Watts Belser.

"Wilderness made me turn to the deep wondering and wandering journey within."

Our first storyteller is Laura Gilbert from St Martin-in-the-Fields.

We're here and ready to go at 11!

So this is the great weekend of this years @livingedgeconf.bsky.social, which is our first hybrid conference

If you're joining us online, you'll see me hosting the zoom, and doing Various Conference Things, and I will return to my normal posting rate next week, when all the admin is done!!

We're excited for the screening of Defiant Lives on Sunday 19 at 2.30pm at St-Martin-in=the-Fields. Open to all. £5 entry and free for weekend conference attendees.

This is a really good introduction to the Disability Rights Movement. Tell your friends!!
defiantlives.com

cantheseboneslive.eventbrite.co.uk

We have a few spots available for this. A weekend of events focused on disability and church. All most welcome to sign up for onsite or online attendance.

Here's this year's @livingedgeconf.bsky.social, as mentioned in today's wonderful seminar hosted by @naomijacobs.bsky.social . There are still a few spaces left, both onsite and online.
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We're counting down to Can These Bones Live? a weekend of events exploring Disability, Wilderness, Hope & God

We're down to 12 spaces onsite and 13 online! Book now to grab a spot.

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Breathing Life: Events to Share Research and Build Community — naomilawsonjacobs.com/breathing-li...

News of upcoming events and reflections on work to forget community partnerships and build bridges over the past few months. With thanks to all my incredible collaborators.

Tickets acquired! This disabled-led conference on disability & church is the highlight of my year (& features prominently in my book with @emjric.bsky.social). Will be lovely to reunite with old friends for the first hybrid conference & first at St Martin’s since 2019. I’m preaching on the Sunday :)

This is an important event and FTN members are involved, so do check out the details.

Hearing God ask Ezekiel "Can these bones live?" at Morning Prayer was a nice ad for October's @livingedgeconf.bsky.social

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Like the prophet Ezekiel, disabled people can feel overwhelmed by the places we inhabit. Surrounded by bones - by the difficulties of life and by the hostility and injustice of our culture - we can easily lose hope.

But God asks us the question, “Can these bones live?”

Our next exhibition will be 'Seeking the Disabled Christ' (30 July-27 Aug). This collection of prints by Newcastle-based chaplain and spiritual director Rachel Holdforth invites us to see Christ in solidarity with all humanity. Learn more: newcastlecathedral.org.uk/event/seeking-the-disabled-christ

First Skeet!

Since 2012, this annual conference has held space for disabled people- to gather, to resource each other and the church. It’s a partnership between St Martin-in-the-Fields & Inclusive Church, working #withnotfor disabled people.