Anvil vol 38 issue 1
Mission and disability
Kt Tupling guest edits an issue focusing on offering good news about Jesus from disabled experiences.
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Kt Tupling guest edits an issue offering good news about Jesus from disabled experiences.
A man with a mission
Naomi Lawson Jacobs reflects on mission done to, rather than with or by, disabled people via a resistant reading of Jesus’ encounter with a man with leprosy.
Theology at the borders of psychosis
Rachel Noël is an Anglican priest writing about “sanity” and mission from a place of “instability”, from her own experience of psychosis.
Mission with children and young people with additional needs and their families
Mark Arnold considers what collaborative mission with children and young people with additional needs and their families looks like in 2022.
The golden light of God’s kintsugi: mission and mental health
Bill Braviner reflects on the Japanese art of kintsugi and the intentional value of “cracks” in our mental health.
Mission, and dispelling the disability/ tragedy narrative
Kay Morgan-Gurr explores the impact of the “tragedy narrative” on disabled people and on the church’s mission.
Mission and disabled people
Tim Rourke shares research on how attitudes, access and agency are often missing when the church talks about mission and the disabled community.
Mission, disability and creativity
Emma Major reflects on the interplay between mission, disability and creativity, from within her lived experience as an artist and church leader.
