Episode 11 My Body is Not a Prayer Request: Disability Justice in the Church

Join podcast host Erin Thomas as Erin chats with author Amy Kenny about her very recently released book 'My Body is Not a Prayer Request'. Amy was raised in churches that saw her body as broken or evil, so she determined that God and faith needed to be much bigger than one kind of body or one kind of ability. While her childhood faith traditions sought to cure her, Amy sought the deeper waters of God's healing which proclaimed that her body was created very good and is a marvelous creation as it is.

 

About Amy:

Amy Kenny (PhD, University of Sussex) is a disabled scholar and a Shakespeare lecturer whose research focuses on medical and bodily themes in literature. Her work has been featured in Teen Vogue, The Mighty, The Audacity, and Sojourners. Kenny is a scribe for Freedom Road Institute for Leadership and Justice; serves on the mayor's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Taskforce in California; coordinates support for people experiencing homelessness in her neighborhood; and is currently colaunching Jubilee Homes OC, a permanent supportive housing initiative in her local community.

 

Dr. Amy Kenny's book, My Body Is Not A Prayer Request: Disability Justice in the Church releases May 17, 2022

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