This week Anna Rebecca Solevag joins the pod offering reflections on disability and the Bible. She joins us from Norway where she teaches as a Professor of New Testament Studies at VID Specialized University in Oslo.

For more from Professor Solevag, you can consult her work:

https://www.amazon.com/Negotiating-Disabled-Body-Representations-Christianity/dp/1628372214

Also mentioned in the conversation is her article titled “No Nuts, No Problem," where Anna uses crip theory and disability studies to interpret the Ethiopian eunuch in Acts 8:26–40 as a disabled figure whose marked body and inability to procreate challenge cultural norms, revealing a destabilizing, non-normative vision of Christ through the eunuch’s reading of Isaiah 53.

You can find the article here:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/290522753_No_Nuts_No_Problem

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/

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This week, Sarah Jean Barton, program director for Occupational Therapy at Duke and assistant professor of Theology and Ethics at Duke Divinity School. Joins the conversation with Blind Faith.

She discusses the ways theology helps us consider all in the church, in particular those often overlooked due to disability. In her words, she helps us to consider, ‘Not only theology for the wounds but putting flesh on the wounds for theologizing.

If you want to go deeper, check out her ground breaking work, “Becoming the Baptized Body”

Also mentioned in this episode are references to Susan Eastman’s work, “Paul and the Person”.

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, 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/