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Living Edge Conference @livingedgeconf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Less than 30 spots available for this year's conference, happening a month from today! We'll share ideas of faith, church and God and of learning to love our own minds. We'd love for you to be a part of the weekend! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/loving-our...

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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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Knight of Books and Bothies @bothyknight.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

And we have Ayla presenting at @livingedgeconf.bsky.social in October - this year's theme is Loving Our Own Minds!

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Naomi L. Jacobs @naomijacobs.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

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.)

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Rebecca (Bex) Chapman @rebeccabexchapman.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

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

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

'Scripture begins, not with deficit, but with grace.' Robert Thompson

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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

ND people are "not problems to be solved but blessings bearing the image of God" (Craddock). Story of objections to a young man with Down Syndrome serving in his church - hopes this motion will change such prejudice so that "no one feels they need to leave part of themselves at the church door." /6

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

'Idealised and perfected images of the human body that come from the Greek and Roman world and not the gospel of Jesus Christ have often been prominent in Christian narratives...

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

In John 21 Jesus invites his disciples to cast their nets on the other side of the boat. Fiona invites us to cast our nets in new waters to discover abundance.

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

Fiona MacMillan references 'Thinking Differently About God' our first conference focusing primarily on neurodiversity in 2019, in the opening speech in All Kinds of Minds at #Synod

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

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.

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

'Theology informs all that we do as the Neurodiversity Working Group. We are not driven by a secular ‘human rights’ agenda: rather we are energised by the Scriptures that call out for diversity and inclusion.' viamedia.news/2026/07/10/b...

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Be Kind - ViaMedia

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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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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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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 · 29/05/2026

SAVE THE DATE This year’s disability conference will be held on 24th and 25th October at St Martin-in-the-Fields and online. We are still fine tuning the details but we can say that this year’s conference will have a neurodiversity focus... Look out for registration later in the summer.

Image shows different coloured outlines of human beings with their brains highlighted in contrasting bright colours.

Image credit: "Neurodiversity Crowd 1" by MissLunaRose12 is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Living Edge Conference @livingedgeconf.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

We now welcome our keynote speaker, Rabbi Julia Watts Belser.

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Living Edge Conference @livingedgeconf.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

"Wilderness made me turn to the deep wondering and wandering journey within."

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Living Edge Conference @livingedgeconf.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Our first storyteller is Laura Gilbert from St Martin-in-the-Fields.

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Living Edge Conference @livingedgeconf.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

We're excited for the screening of Defiant Lives on Sunday 19 at 2.30pm at St-Martin-in=the-Fields. Open to all. £5 entry and free for weekend conference attendees. This is a really good introduction to the Disability Rights Movement. Tell your friends!! defiantlives.com

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Home | Defiant Lives

Defiant Lives introduces the world to the most impressive activists you’ve never heard of and tells the story of the of the disability rights movement.

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Living Edge Conference @livingedgeconf.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

We're counting down to Can These Bones Live? a weekend of events exploring Disability, Wilderness, Hope & God We're down to 12 spaces onsite and 13 online! Book now to grab a spot. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/can-these-...

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Can These Bones Live? Disability, wilderness, hope and God

Exploring experience of wilderness & how hope grows. With talks, workshops, groups, art, theology, liturgy. Hybrid event - on site & online

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Naomi L. Jacobs @naomijacobs.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Breathing Life: Events to Share Research and Build Community — naomilawsonjacobs.com/breathing-li... News of upcoming events and reflections on work to forget community partnerships and build bridges over the past few months. With thanks to all my incredible collaborators.

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Breathing Life: Events to Share Research and Build Community - Naomi Lawson Jacobs

These bones can live. In a time of stark oppression, we're still here - building community, learning from each other, and taking action for change. If you're involved in that work, or you're just curi...

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Naomi L. Jacobs @naomijacobs.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Tickets acquired! This disabled-led conference on disability & church is the highlight of my year (& features prominently in my book with @emjric.bsky.social). Will be lovely to reunite with old friends for the first hybrid conference & first at St Martin’s since 2019. I’m preaching on the Sunday :)

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Feminist Theology Network @feministtheology.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

This is an important event and FTN members are involved, so do check out the details.

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Living Edge Conference @livingedgeconf.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Like the prophet Ezekiel, disabled people can feel overwhelmed by the places we inhabit. Surrounded by bones - by the difficulties of life and by the hostility and injustice of our culture - we can easily lose hope. But God asks us the question, “Can these bones live?”

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Newcastle Cathedral @newcastlecathedral.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Our next exhibition will be 'Seeking the Disabled Christ' (30 July-27 Aug). This collection of prints by Newcastle-based chaplain and spiritual director Rachel Holdforth invites us to see Christ in solidarity with all humanity. Learn more: newcastlecathedral.org.uk/event/seeking-the-disabled-christ

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Living Edge Conference @livingedgeconf.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

First Skeet! Since 2012, this annual conference has held space for disabled people- to gather, to resource each other and the church. It’s a partnership between St Martin-in-the-Fields & Inclusive Church, working #withnotfor disabled people.

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Disability – Inclusive Church

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