RESOURCES AND ADVOCACY INFORMATION

Here are some resources for your disability ministry:

Books:

·       Loving Our Own Bones: Disability Wisdom and the Spiritual Subversiveness of Knowing Ourselves Whole, Julia Watts Belser (Beacon Press, 2023)

·       A Healing Homiletic: Preaching and Disability, Kathy Black (Abingdon Press, 1996)

·       The Disabled God: Toward a Liberatory Theology of Disability, Nancy L. Eiesland, (Abingdon Press, 1994)

·       Human Disability and the Service of God, Nancy L. Eiesland & Don E. Saliers (Abingdon Press, 1998)

·       How Ableism Fuels Racism: Dismantling the Hierarchy of Bodies in the Church, Lamar Hardwick (Brazos Press, 2024)

·       No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement, Joseph P. Shapiro  (Three Rivers Press, 1994)

·       Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, Alice Wong (Vintage Books, 2010)

·       Vulnerable Communion: A Theology of Disability and Hospitality, Thomas E. Reynolds – (Brazos Press, 2008)

·       My Body Is Not a Prayer Request: Disability Justice in the Church, Amy Kenny (Brazos Press, 2022)

·       Leading a Special Needs Ministry: A Practical Guide to Including Children and Loving Families, Amy Fenton Lee (Orange Books, 2014)

·       The Accessible Church: Making the Church a Welcoming Place for Children with Special Needs and from Traumatic Backgrounds, Kerri Ann Hayes (2022)

Curriculum

·       Friendship Ministries – TOGETHER Curriculum

·       Ability Ministry Curriculum

·       Key Ministry Resources

·       Joni and Friends Church Resources

Podcasts

·       The Autism Pastor Podcast

·       Disabling the Church from the Center of Disability and Ministry

Online Resource Hubs

·       Disability Ministries The United Methodist Church

·       The Institute on Theology and Disability

·       Collaborative on Faith and Disability