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Naomi L. Jacobs @naomijacobs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

On Tues 13th October I'm giving the annual Hook Lecture in Leeds, on disability, belonging and justice in churches and society. Please share with anyone who might be interested. Hope to see you there! #DisabilityTheology #DisabilityStudies www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-hook-l...

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The Hook Lecture 2026: Just Belonging

Disability, Justice and Churches by Dr Naomi Lawson Jacobs

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Ant Breach @antbreach.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

It would be a terrible shame if this resource was lost for want of an archive - this stuff is still of major interest to policymakers today and is a crucial part of the social history that made the Britain of today (HT @municipaldreams.bsky.social )

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Once again I pitch my idea for CofE Dioceses to have [x]-in-residence, who travel across the Diocese meeting and working with different communities and bringing churches from across the Diocese together, instead of rich churches being able to fund their own residencies, and the poor going without.

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Helen King @helenking.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I suspect there may be more than 237 people in the #CofE who support full inclusion of those of different race, sexuality, gender and neurodiversity and who’d like to help fund the election campaign for General Synod? justgiving.com/campaign/inc...

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The Inclusive Synod Election Campaign

We're fundraising with Inclusive Church to support the election of inclusive people to the General Synod of the Church of England in the 2026 elections. This will help the Church to be more diverse a...

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Ann Memmott @annmemmott.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

www.churchofengland.org/media/news-a... Good to see this article about the CofE Neurodiversity Champions network, with photo of the fabulous Fiona MacMillan @jpuddlegoose.bsky.social who presented the Motion at #GeneralSynod on behalf of our group. Good mention of Archbishop Sarah also.

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General Synod backs new network of neurodiversity champions | The Church of England

The General Synod has called for the appointment of a network of diocesan ‘champions’ to help ensure that neurodivergent clergy and lay people feel welcome and able to flourish in the Church of Englan...

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Naomi L. Jacobs @naomijacobs.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

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...

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Be Kind - ViaMedia

by Canon Dr Phil Groves, who was a CMS Mission partner and lecturer in theology at St Philip’s Kongwa in Tanzania. He served at the Anglican Communion Office for 10 years. He has attended two Lambeth ...

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Ann Memmott @annmemmott.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy... Really useful new research into why some cutlery (knives, forks, spoons) is hell for some neurodivergent people. Much needed, given how often it's a part of helping solve e.g. eating disorders.

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Frontiers | Exploring sensory aspects of cutlery in neurodivergent-informed eating disorder care

BackgroundSensory sensitivities are common in individuals with eating disorders (ED) particularly among those who are also neurodivergent. However, research ...

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Ann Memmott @annmemmott.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

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/

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Living Edge Conference @livingedgeconf.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Later today #GeneralSynod debates All Kinds of Minds, a motion calling on the church to affirm the presence of neurodivergent people in the whole life of the church and to reconsider structures and processes which discriminate against and disadvantage neurodivergent people.

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Living Edge Conference @livingedgeconf.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

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

Poster for the "Loving Our Own Minds: Neurodiversity, faith, church & God" conference.

At the top are the St Martin-in-the-Fields 300 and Inclusive Church logos.

The centre features a colourful word cloud in the shape of a brain, with words including "God", "faith", "church", "love", "joy", "gift", "justice", "belonging", "autism", "neurodiversity", and "thinking differently".

Text reads: "Saturday 24 October – Sunday 25 October 2026. A weekend of events to mark our 15th annual conference on disability and church. St Martin-in-the-Fields, London and online. BSL • Captions. Registration opens 31 July. LovingOurOwnMinds.eventbrite.co.uk."

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

“Neurodiversity is not a problem to be solved in the life of the Church, it is a gift.” We mush commit ourselves to dismantling barriers. Archbishop Sarah Mullaley #GeneralSynod

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Naomi L. Jacobs @naomijacobs.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Delighted that the General #Synod motion 'All Kinds of Minds' has been carried. Looking forward to the neurodivergent-led training, Neurodiversity Champions and other great work that comes out of it. #Neurodiversity #ChurchOfEngland

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Naomi L. Jacobs @naomijacobs.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

As more voices share a range of responses to the motion at #Synod, largely very positive, people might have questions. There's a great resources page on the Neurodiversity Working Group's website which might help. Scroll down here www.churchofengland.org/resources/ba... /10

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Neurodiversity | The Church of England

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

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Naomi L. Jacobs @naomijacobs.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

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/

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Naomi L. Jacobs @naomijacobs.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

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.

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Ann Memmott @annmemmott.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

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.

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Neurodiversity Working Group of the Committee for the Ministry of and among Deaf and Disabled People (CMDDP) | The Church of England

The Neurodiversity Working Group (NDWG) has identified work already happening across the Church, including on clergy wellbeing, experiences of the discernment process and of formation, and in safeguar...

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Have you ever been criticised in public for using a Blue Badge? I’m looking to gather disabled people’s experiences for The Guardian to explore hostility around the Blue Badge and Motability schemes. We’ve made a quick form you can fill in here: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a... (Please share.)

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Blue badge holders: how are you treated by other members of the public when out?

Have you experienced reactions from other people when using your blue badge? We’d like to hear from you

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

“Nothing is burdensome if taken lightly, and nothing need arouse one's irritation so long as one doesn't make it bigger than it is by getting irritated.” – Seneca #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

The Jewish News, which I am proud to work for as Deputy Editor, has published an editorial on this week's Iftar prayers in Trafalgar Square www.jewishnews.co.uk/voice-of-the...

Excerpt from the article:

"The question here is not really one of whether such prayer is in fact an attempt to “dominate” – or the more obvious explanation, that during Ramadan one breaks ones’ fast by eating very briefly just before and then more properly after the evening Maghrib prayer (yes, like our own Maariv prayer). Rather it is about whether one has the right to publicly express their religious identity in this country. In this specific instance, an event to mark a key event in the Islamic calendar had been openly and legally booked for Trafalgar Square. Muslims present had every right to pray as a part of that."

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Greenbelt Festival @greenbeltfestival.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

This #LGBTHistoryMonth, our @outatgreenbelt.bsky.social volunteer team are digging through our archives to share LGBTQ+ voices from the festival that still hit home. We’re kicking things off with Sarah’s recommendation. “It's so powerful to hear her ideas about what queerness adds to Christianity.”

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KidzBoptotenlieder @theodramatist.com · 05/01/2026

If Trump attacks an ally to annex their territory, *then* do the Hitler comparisons finally become appropriate?

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Stephanie @stephanieoffer.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Something you might find interesting @revrachelmann.bsky.social I've heard another of Jeanette Patrick's podcasts, on the American Revolution and it's excellent

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United Methodist News @umnews.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

We in the #UMC wish our Jewish neighbors "Chag sameach!" this Hanukkah, which starts tonight. We also pray for comfort for all in mourning after today's antisemitic attack in Australia. May this festival help us all remember that light endures even in dark times.

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Helen King @helenking.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Mandy Ford, Dean of Bristol Cathedral, speaks out! “Where, among our bishops, are those with the courage to act from love, who are willing to risk the breaking in of the Kingdom?“ togethercofe.org.uk/dean-of-bris...

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Dean of Bristol sends message to the Bishops – Together for the Church of England

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JPuddlegoose @jpuddlegoose.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Good to be at St Martin in the Fields for 'Christ in the Stranger' this morning, an act of witness about the meaning of Christmas ahead of the afternoon event nearby. Joining with Sanctuary Foundation, Better Story and people from diverse churches across London. #RefugeesWelcome

Stone steps of church building, a small dog and a large number of people are standing at the sides. Some are holding a banner with text 'Refugees welcome'. In the centre at the top is a bigger banner with text 'God so loved the world - that means everyone'. Under the banner a man and a woman are dressed as Mary and Joseph in a nativity play, the woman is holding a baby. Next to them are two sheep and a donkey.

Steep steps going up to a church. lots of people are sitting or standing on the steps, some are holding banners with text 'Love your enemy', 'Jesus was a refugee' /Blessed are the peacemakers'. At the top of the steps are two people in costumes, two sheep and a donkey

A white leaflet with three logos at the bottom - Better Story, St Martin in the Fields and Sanctuary Foundation. Text reads (heading) - Christ in the Stranger. Saturday 13 December 2025.' underneath - And the angel said to them, 'Fear not, for behold I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people (all the people is underlined and in bold). For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour who is Christ the Lord. Luke 2: 10-11

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Sarah Emily Duff @sarahemilyduff.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

From Stoppard’s Arcadia:

We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it. The missing plays of Sophocles will turn up piece by piece, or be written again in another language … You do not suppose, my lady, that if all of Archimedes had been hiding in the great library of Alexandria, we would be at a loss for a corkscrew?

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

So many people who are otherwise so committed to good things are on Substack, which is very nice to bad people, ideas, and lies. My own newsletter was launched on Ghost because the bad news about Substack isn't new.

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

I've never felt more ashamed of being a Labour supporter. Not even during Iraq, where at least we had cabinet members resigning in disgust. Now: just jostling for position. If I wasn't already turning my back on the party I've backed my whole life, I would be now. #ImmigrantsWelcome #NotInMyName

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Greenbelt Festival @greenbeltfestival.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

What is it like to live surrounded by illegal Israeli settlements and under constant threat of violence? On a hilltop farm just outside Bethlehem, Daoud Nassar and his family continue to live, resist and hope. We were privileged to invite Daoud - remotely - to talk to us about it this summer.

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JPuddlegoose @jpuddlegoose.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Powerful letter from Clare Herbert in today's Church Times

Image: screenshot of letter in newspaper. Text reads:

Bishops’ decisions on LLF process

From the Revd Dr Clare Herbert

Madam, — I have spent my working life in ministry in the Church of England, as parish worker, deaconess, deacon, and priest. I am now in my seventies.

I can, therefore, remember, at the very start of my ministry, the cry of the late Dr Una Kroll, which she hurled from the gallery of the General Synod, when in 1978 progress towards the ordination of women to the priesthood was halted. Her cry was of rage and beseeching: “We asked for bread, and you gave us a stone.”

So, I recognised the cold, hard stone in my own heart when I read this week that the House of Bishops (News, 17 October) had decided that there should be no immediate change to the current rules that bar the clergy from being in same-sex civil marriages. It is that stone in the pitof the stomach which is formed by the pain of knowing that a cry for equality has gone unheard.

On 31 May, I married my partner of 35 years. Surrounded by joyful witnesses to our enduring love, my partner became my wife in a Quaker marriage ceremony. In retirement, I have become a “Quanglican”: that is, one who gladly attends Anglican services and Quaker meetings for worship. My wife is a Quaker, and, in the Religious Society of Friends, I have experienced a profound sense of freedom, affirmation, and openness such as I have never known before.

My personhood and closest relationship were celebrated that day in a fullness to which I continue to respond with gratitude, joy, love, and the desire to continue serving the God who made me.

We in the lesbian and gay community may choose to pick up and live with the heavy, joyless stones imposed on our heads and hearts by an unresponsive Church. But it is important to recognise that we do not have to do so in obedience to God. I have discovered the God who is a Giver of Bread.

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Rachel Charlton-Dailey @rachelcdailey.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

This is absolutely vile. I get that Ghosts fans bring West Horsley Place a LOT of tourism, but this is disgusting. To evict a 70 year old woman who's lived there 20 years for a holiday cottage for fans?? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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'It's going to break my heart' - woman faces eviction from Ghosts estate

Baschea Walsh says she feels

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Ann Memmott @annmemmott.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Yesterday I had the honour of being on the team for this fantastic annual event. By, with and for disabled, deaf and neurodivergent people. Every participant extending the love, courtesy, accessibility & generosity that our faith asks of each of us. Utterly wonderful. #CanTheseBonesLive

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

These freaks keep getting on TV talking about opposing antifa and how they believe antifa wants to destroy them, and not a single person in mainstream media has asked or commented on what is the opposite of antifascism and who is threatened by antifascists

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

As Toby Young points out, Black people are over-represented in advertising. He somehow forgot to mention they are over-represented in poverty, unemployment and homelessness statistics too.

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Rev’d Rick Ormrod @rickormrod.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Imagine the Labour Party leader calling out racism & fascism, explaining how 14 years of Tory cuts impacted on integration, and the need to properly tax multi-millionaires and billionaires, in the way that the Green Party leader Zack Polanski did on Question Time last night. Yes. Just imagine that.

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churchtimes.bsky.social @churchtimes.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Layan Nasir, a 25-year Anglican Palestinian, was taken into Israeli custody on Thursday, although she had previously been told that her seven-and-a-half month sentence would not start until November.

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Concern expressed after Israelis imprison Layan Nasir

The 25-year old Anglican Palestinian was convicted, in absentia, last month

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John Petrie @johnpetrie.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

If anyone doubted that the BBC is deliberately not covering the Russian/Reform bribery scandal, those doubts should have been removed by Fiona Bruce interrupting to prevent it being discussed on BBC Question time last night. #BBCQT

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Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Oregon National Guard general said that if they were deployed, his troops would be instructed to protect the protesters, not ICE.

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Naomi L. Jacobs @naomijacobs.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Huge thanks to @krysiawally.bsky.social , @jpuddlegoose.bsky.social & Bernice Hardie for sharing their work in faith communities for disability inclusion & social justice at @learningmet.bsky.social. Great to host such interesting speakers on a topic we don’t talk about enough in #DisabilityStudies.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 08/10/2025

I will not back down. Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power. What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Andrew Dotchin (tssf) he/him @suffolkvicar.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

My Bangladeshi 🇧🇩 born friend with whom I talk about cricket & rugby in the pub told me that he was abused in traffic today by someone with not much grammar and told to ‘get back on his boat’ He has lived here since he was 8 years old and is a valued local accountant 😔 Only White people can stop this

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Naomi L. Jacobs @naomijacobs.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Speakers: @krysiawally.bsky.social on research into autistic people's experiences of mosques & churches; Bernice Hardie on WAVE, a community #WithNotFor people with learning disabilities; @jpuddlegoose.bsky.social on neurodivergent & disabled-led work in the Church of England #AutRes #Disability 2/2

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Naomi L. Jacobs @naomijacobs.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I'm excited to be chairing an online symposium on Religions, Faith Communities & Disability on 8th Oct 12-2, as part of Manchester Metropolitan's Learning Disabilities and Autism Research Group seminar series. Speakers and topics in the next post... Details and sign-up link at tinyurl.com/3pdjmn4d 🧵

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