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Loving Our Own Minds: Neurodiversity, Faith, Church and God

Our 15th annual conference focuses on Neurodiversity, faith, church and God, and explores how to learn to love our own minds

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If you're interested in lino print, I'm putting on a workshop @Leicester Cathedral on Wednesday 5th August 10.30 - 1.30. Come to learn how to make a lino print and make some yourself to take home. No experience needed. Booking and more information: leicestercathedral.org/exhibition-s...

Exhibition: Seeking the Disabled Christ

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Dr Rachel Holdforth @wobblygoose.bsky.social ‘s Seeking the Disabled Christ exhibition is at Leicester Cathedral for two weeks. Panel discussion with @hannahlewis.bsky.social on 3rd August. One of the prints in Rachel’s groundbreaking series of disabled Christ icons is on the cover of ‘At the Gates’

WobblyGoose/Dr Rachel@wobblygoose.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Seeking the Disabled Christ Exhibition is all set up in Leicester Cathedral ready for tomorrow. Do visit during the cathedral opening hours until 5th August for free.

We’d love you to join us for the annual Inclusive Church/SMITF conference on disability and church, which this year (again) focuses on neurodiversity. (I’ll be co-leading a workshop on ADHD, movement and worship.)

Living Edge Conference@livingedgeconf.bsky.social · 4w ago

Ahead of today's All Kinds of Minds synod motion, it might be good to share this...

Powerful speech from Rev Alice Kemp #synod on how her autism diagnosis helped her 'start being who I am and to stop hiding so much of me. I’ve begun to recognise that I am fearfully and wonderfully made - and it is all of me that God has called into ministry and indeed my whole life' #GeneralSynod

And if you'd like to see more of @wobblygoose.bsky.social 's artwork come to Leicester Cathedral from 20th July to 5th (?) August

Fiona MacMillan now speaking at General #Synod in the debate on the 'All Kinds of Minds' motion on neurodivergent people in the church. She tells us that the church is diminished and overlooks abundance when we do not recognise the gifts of neurodivergent members and leaders, 1/

On shining a light on dark places, through research and activism - my reflections on today's General #Synod neurodiversity motion and the Social Murder Festival at @learningmet.bsky.social this week. naomilawsonjacobs.com/shining-a-li...

Shining a Light: Kindness, Hope and Social Justice - Naomi Lawson Jacobs

The Neurodiversity Motion at General Synod & the Social Murder Festival at Manchester Metropolitan University Two groups I'm part of have been doing important, impactful work through activism and rese...

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Thanks, Naomi. Really important to have good quality materials to hand. Lots of general resources also available at the national Neurodiversity Working Group's CofE link at www.churchofengland.org/resources/ba... #GeneralSynod

Neurodiversity | The Church of England

A definition of neurodiversity and the activity of the Neurodiversity Working Group

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The letter Phil answers is extraordinary. I particularly want to stress, though, that as someone who works in a theological college, I’ve had a number of ordinands who either arrived with a diagnosis of neurodivergence or gained one while with us. The church would be poorer without any of them.

Naomi L. Jacobs@naomijacobs.bsky.social · 4w ago

After some criticism of the #GeneralSynod neurodiversity motion, Canon Dr Phil Groves has written this lovely response. Phil is a fellow member of the Neurodiversity Working Group of the Church of England. The motion will be debated at #Synod this afternoon. viamedia.news/2026/07/10/b...

A quick primer thread ahead of the team's #GeneralSynod Neurodiversity Motion this afternoon, Friday 10th. Very informal, written in a personal, not official group, capacity. but it may be helpful. Neurodiversity is everyone. All kinds of minds/

After some criticism of the #GeneralSynod neurodiversity motion, Canon Dr Phil Groves has written this lovely response. Phil is a fellow member of the Neurodiversity Working Group of the Church of England. The motion will be debated at #Synod this afternoon. viamedia.news/2026/07/10/b...

As part of the Social Murder Festival, we're hearing from Lucy Easthope today, on Lessons for Challenging Social Murder from a Lifetime Working in Disaster www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lessons-fo...

Lessons for challenging social murder from a lifetime working in disaster

Join Lucy Easthope, Visiting Professor of Social Justice and Bereavement, for a discussion on challenging social murder.

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Privileged to hear from so many activists & self-advocates at the Social Murder Festival at @learningmet.bsky.social today - calling for an end to preventable deaths of people with learning disabilities. Part of a week-long event including lobbying at the House of Lords. @sararyan57.bsky.social

Here is an Open Letter to the Leadership at Exeter University which urges them to reconsider their decision to make massive cuts to Theology and Religion there. #Exeter Please sign an open letter to our University leadership, to be found at lnkd.in/epiHG76f

More coverage of our research for the #Neurodiversity Working Group of the #ChurchofEngland, on Premier. Really great to see the reporting before #GeneralSynod neurodiversity motion debate next week. @brianirvine.bsky.social @krysiawally.bsky.social #CofE premierchristian.news/en/news/arti...

Church told to do more for neurodivergent worshippers and priests - Premier Christian News | Headlines, Breaking News, Comment & Analysis

The report, All Kinds of Minds, has been put together for the General Synod, the Church's governing body, which meets in York next week.

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And finally from #SocRel26, a found poem on emergent themes from the conference. Made in @saramch.bsky.social 's (great) workshop on creative methods and sensitive research. Thanks for the space, Sara. SocRel is always an excellent conference, even though it was vulnerable and difficult this time.

Fantastic work being shared on power and institutional harms at #SocRel26 today, incl Jonathan Abernethy-Barkley on the response of religious institutions to abuse in Scotland, and a brilliant, reflexive, feminist panel on researching harms & healing in British evangelicalism.

Hearing from Krishan Anil Chadha at #SocRel26 about research on young South Asian disabled people and their changing religio-cultural identities. Follow-up research after original study with young people converting away from families' religions to Christianity. 1/3

Fantastic work by Dr Rahmanara Chowdhury #SocRel26 on domestic abuse in Muslim contexts in anti-Muslim climates silencing survivors & communities. Individual, psycho-social, spiritual factors. Macro level harms for already-traumatised individuals. Incl discussion of religion as protective/a resource

Lovely to be at #SocRel26 conf and to catch up with great people incl @saramch.bsky.social & @krysiawally.bsky.social . Krysia and I are presenting later on positionality for disabled/ND scholars in our field, and on my 'ideal worshipper' theory (that coincidentally the media picked up on today!)

Research by @brianirvine.bsky.social , @krysiawally.bsky.social & myself, on the front page of the Times (with neurodivergent clergy on barriers to/enabling their flourishing in churches). I'm really glad to see this discussion in the media ahead of General Synod motion on neurodiversity.

Centre for Research in Autism and Education@craeioe.bsky.social · last mo.

CRAE's Brian Irvine has had his research for the Church of England mentioned on the front page of The Times today! The article highlights his independent work to advocate for support for neurodivergent clergy members. Read the full Times article here: http://bit.ly/4eBDREL 1/2

If you’re in the Church of England, please ask reps in your diocese to vote for our General Synod motion next week, on celebrating ND people in the church & dismantling the barriers we face - by my great colleagues in the Neurodiversity Working Group. (Supported by research I was proud to help with)

Ann Memmott@annmemmott.bsky.social · last mo.

www.churchofengland.org/resources/ba... So proud of this wonderful official Church of England neurodiversity team. All of us are working hard to ensure that our churches have the best possible research, training, advice, info, safeguarding, and related laws. Read all about it here.

I'm really excited (and honoured!) to be delivering the St Teilo's Annual Theologies of Liberation Lecture next Friday. Do come along if you're in reach of Cardiff, or please share with anyone who is. :) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/annual-the...

Annual Theologies of Liberation Lecture 2026: Naomi Jacobs

Leadership from the Edge: Disabled People and the Prophetic Renewal of the Church

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Obviously I couldn't say this on BBC Radio 4 but I think that Ascension Day is possibly the most important Christian Feast for queers, because it marks the elevation of the physical human form. And there's a lot there for us as it's the physical for which we are so often persecuted and condemned...

Jay Hulme@jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 3mo ago

If you missed it, you can catch my latest Daily Service episode here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Really sad to have to miss the Participatory Autism Research Collective online conference this morning as I’m not well (but I hope I can pop in for a bit later). I hope it goes well, @kmunday.bsky.social and all the speakers!

I love Navin Kikabhai’s animated videos sharing a paper on how educational systems respond to diversity, inclusion and justice - worked with a doodle artist to animate the paper. Public/academic engagement events - questionnaire/interviews rating the video & asking questions from the paper #CDS26

Eleanor Smith-Hahn speaking on live literature reviews in PhDs. An expected trajectory to PhDs, starting with a trad lit review - found it prioritised certain forms of knowledge about people with learning disabilities. Lit review is not seen as a political tool & not a lot of scope to critique it 1/

Now hearing from @krysiawally.bsky.social & @keatesresearch.bsky.social on using iDocs (interactive documentaries) in two edited books on neurodivergence & education. Authors shared work interactively. Subjugated & disqualified knowledges (Foucault) - challenging knowledge hierarchies #CDS26