This week, Benjamin Conner, a professor of disability and ministry at Western Theological Seminary, joins the podcast and encourages us to contemplate disability and the witnessing community known as the church more deeply. He co-edits a series with John Swinton for Intervarsity Press on disability and the church.

Disibility and the Church IVP Link

For further insights from Conner, his book “Disabling Mission: Enabling Witness” is highly recommended. It effectively illustrates the concepts discussed here.

Disabling Mission: Enabling Witness Amazon Link

Darrell Guder, who guided a groundbreaking work titled Missional Church, was also mentioned in this episode.

Missional Church Amazon Link

Production Notes:

Produced by: Chandler Sargent

Artwork designed by: Jason Ruggles

Show theme “Labyrinth” provided by: Light Music Collective

Pizza Music Credits:

Bushwick Tarentella Loop by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1300003

Artist: http://incompetech.com/

This week, Amos Yong joins the conversation on disability theology. The mystery of creation and the creator in light of disabilities and his own biography comes through. Amos teaches at Fuller Seminary (https://fuller.edu/faculty/amos-yong/) and the following books are some of his work in this field.

Bible and Disability Commentary

https://www.amazon.com/Bible-Disability-Commentary-Religion-Theology/dp/1602586217

Theology and Down Syndrome.

https://www.amazon.com/Theology-Down-Syndrome-Reimagining-Disability/dp/1602580065

The Bible, Disability, and the Church.

https://www.amazon.com/Bible-Disability-Church-Vision-People/dp/0802866085

Also, mentioned in this conversation is the work by John Hull related to a theology of blindness: https://www.amazon.com/Beginning-There-Was-Darkness-Conversations/dp/1563383683

Production Notes:

Produced by: Chandler Sargent

Artwork designed by: Jason Ruggles

Show theme “Labyrinth” provided by: Light Music Collective

Pizza Music Credits:

Bushwick Tarentella Loop by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1300003

Artist: http://incompetech.com/

On this episode, the On this episode, the Blind Faith crew are joined by professor Louise Gosbell who teaches Bible and Disability at he Australian University of Theology. She is known for her work in disability and the gospels and the body of Christ imagery.

You can find more on her work here:

Louise Gosbell’s Academia Page

Louise Gosbell’s book: The Poor, the Cripple, the Blind, and the Lame

As we hear the story of Professor Swinton, he addresses issues of slowing down, what it means to be human, especially in light of conversations of what it means to be on the spectrum, and if one contributes to society or not as a meaningful determiner of who is human…

John Swinton is a leading voice in the growing field of disability theology. Our conversation references “Becoming a Friend of Time”

“Become Friends With Time” Amazon Link

On his faculty page at the University of Aberdeen, you can find his other publications

John Swinton University of Aberdeen Faculty Page

In this episode, Paige and Salma interview Andy about his journey with disability to introduce the podcast.