Blessed are the Weary: Rest and Reflection on Disability, Value and God
13th annual conference on disability & church
10am – 4.30pm. Online with BSL & captions.
A self-paced programme of pre-recorded content to explore and embody rest, and to reflect on ideas of value. With meditations, stories, creativity, theology and liturgy
Since 2012 we’ve been holding space for disabled people to gather, to resource each other and the church. It’s a partnership between St Martin in the Fields and Inclusive Church.
We”re often judged by what we can do but what does this say about worth? Can rest be an act of resistance? In place of our usual conference gathering we’re practising what we’re preaching with a retreat day of meditation, stories, creativity, theology and liturgy, using pre-recorded materials via a private website and Facebook group.
Contributors
Resting in Christ – Rachel Holdforth
Rest as resistance – Natalia-Nana Lester-Bush
Creativity for weary hearts – Rachel Noel
God’s values and our worth – Sam Wells
Music for weary souls – playlist compiled by Emily Richardson
Blessed are the Weary: a liturgy – Hannah Lewis and Valour Nicholas
Plus storytellers and more – details to follow.
Programme
Saturday 19 October
From 10am – a self-paced programme of pre-recorded content.
Sunday 20 October
10am St Martin in the Fields, Trafalgar Square / https://stmartins.digital/
A special service explores the weekend’s theme, with liturgy written by St Martin’s Disability Advisory Group.
4pm Participants are invited to gather on Zoom to share responses