Disability in Scripture

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This page is not yet completed; in the meantime, check out other places to get information on the Disability & Faith Resources page. You can also check out my stuff shared below.

Disabled AND Blessed: A YouTube Series

• The Bible’s many voices on disability
   
• Genesis 32 and wrestling God through a disabled & trans lens
   
• Executive Dysfunction, Elijah, and Jesus
• ​Isaiah 56‘s message — centering disabled people in our faith communities
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• Luke 1 — Zechariah’s nonspeaking voice
   
• The problems with and good news in the Gospels’ healing narratives
   
• Luke 14’s banquet and disabilities in heaven
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• Exploring images of God on wheels / in a wheelchair

Pertinant Episodes of 
Blessed Are the Binary Breakers

• “Goodness Embodied: An intersex, nonbinary first human and a disabled risen Christ”
  
• “Marginalized Bodies as Spectacle & the Good News in Jesus’s Disabling Wounds”
  
• “Our Pride Is Not a Sin: A Queer & Disabled Christian Lens“
  
• “Holy Pride in disabled experiences and insights”
  • ​Excerpts shared from the wisdom of disabled activists and theologians
    
• “Making Space for Gethsemane: two disabled & trans theologians discuss what people in pain actually need”
  
• Acts 8: Looking at the Ethiopian eunuch through a trans/disabled lens and reading Philip as Autistic;
  
• “No end to transphobia without uprooting ableism: exploring embedded forms of oppression”
  

See Also: my friend Laura’s Autistic Liberation Theology podcast, where I am frequently a guest, for even more on trans & disabled experiences applied to biblical study.