#DisabilityJustice (Pentecost Season 2022 Year C)

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.

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

TWIR 6.19.22 #DisabilityJustice: Getting Liberated from Legion, Again

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/

TWIR 6.26.22 #DisabilityJustice: No "But Firsts" in the Kin-dom

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.

TWIR 7.3.22 #DisabilityJustice: Interdependence Day

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 

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

TWIR 7.17.22 #DisabilityJustice: Mary's Spoons, Martha's Scarcity, and Jesus' Solidarity

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.

TWIR 7.24.22 #DisabilityJustice: Lucky Fins & Disability's Construction Workers

From January 2017 to December 2023, “The Word Is Resistance” was a weekly podcast from SURJ-Faith by white anti-racist Christians based on the Christian lectionary, offering an anti-racist Word for other white Christians -- though all are welcome to check it out.  We are pleased to keep this incredible resource alive here as an ongoing resource to help us all get free.

What do our sacred texts have to teach us about living, surviving, even thriving, in the context of empire, tyranny, violence, repression - the times in which we are living today?  What do they have to teach us, as white Christians, about our role in resistance, in showing up, in liberation?  They teach us this: 

Our traditions were made for these times.  They come from these times.  So we have resources in our texts, our practices, to help us right now.  We can reclaim our stories and re-tell them to nourish our resistance against white supremacy and our work for collective liberation.