Where do we turn when the bottom drops out? This week's episode with Nichola Torbett is about salvation in those moments and how we can begin building the safety net we need now, a safety net big and broad and voluptuous and "unreasonable" enough to support everyone. Join us!

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Sometimes this world weighs so heavily it can bend you over double.

What can we learn from Jesus' setting free of the bent-over woman (and the religious leader's annoyed response!) about what it means to get free? This is the question Nichola Torbett takes on in this week's episode. (Also, if you've ever wondered what the heck "binding and loosing" is, there might be a hint here.)

In this episode, Sharon Fennema explores Jesus' divisive ministry in the context of a lineage of prophetic voices resisting false peace, including disability justice activist Imani Barbarin. What is the ableist status quo that we are tempted to keep peace with? Where do we want to hold on to a negative peace that is complicit with and upholds racialized ableist capitalism? Where might we be failing to perceive the ways that the peace we long for was really the comfort afforded by able-bodied privilege?

Support Disability Visibility Project founder and disability justice activist Alice Wong: https://gofund.me/acc13f11

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How do you sense God in your body? This is just one of the questions Rev. Kelsey Beebe invites us into in this new episode in our #DisabilityJustice series.

On this episode, Rev. M Jade Kaiser (formerly Barclay) and Rev. Anna Blaedel talk through the scripture together, considering greed and riches in a multitude of forms. In their conversation, they weave in intimate reflections on sharing in life and chronic illness together and how forms of supremacy and collective possibility unfold in all of it.

As we continue our series on Disability Justice, Sarah Howell-Miller reflects on Luke 11:1-13 through an unexpected hermeneutical lens--the 2003 Disney/Pixar movie Finding Nemo--on disability as diversity, what it means to be disability's construction workers (per Amy Kenny), and how to build a world that can hold and meet all our needs.

What if sitting and listening is what Mary had spoons for?

As we continue our series at the intersections of Racial Justice and Disability Justice, Sharon Fennema explores the connections between racialized capitalism and the ways of being in the world that are afforded value and acceptance in the story of Mary, Martha and Jesus in Luke 10.

Check out "The Divine - dreams of disabled gods" online exhibit by Samir Knego as part of this week's call to action too: https://samirknego.wixsite.com/here/the-divine

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What if we celebrated, not Independence Day, but Interdependence Day this week?

Join contributor Nichola Torbett as she explores some of the fears, taboos, and blessings of having and acknowledging needs--our own and others--and working together to get them met. This episode places in dialogue Luke 10: 1-11 and 16-20 with some of the writings of disability justice organizer Mia Mingus.

In the second episode in our series on disability justice, Rev. Sarah Howell-Miller reflects on a tough text from Luke chapter 9.

Transcript available here: https://surj.org/our-work/surj-faith/twir/

To begin our new #Disability Justice series, Rev. Anne Dunlap re-visits the story of the "Gerasene Demoniac" in Luke 8 and discovers the man from Gerasa is already whole, and Jesus's commitment to disability justice.

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