Season 6 | Episode 93: Persistence in Disability with Dr. Amy Kenny
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What’s missing when we fail to see the fullness of humanity in the disabled community? In this episode, co-hosts Lindsy Wallace and Kayla Craig talk with Dr. Amy Kenny about persisting in disability, healing versus fixing, and much more.In this episode, we:

• Reframe the concept of disability away from a hierarchy and instead look to how we think of the natural world
• Talk about how being an image bearer is not stripped away when our bodies work in a different way
• Go over what ableism is, how we engage in it without even realizing it, and how the prosperity gospel feeds into it
• Discuss the disabled Christ, the erasure of disability in scripture, and how we miss out on the richness of scripture when we leave out marginalized communities 
• Talk about how we need to go beyond giving a seat at the table and pursue belonging, leading, and flourishing for the disabled community
• Get a preview of her upcoming book, My Body Is Not a Prayer Request: Disability Justice in the Church, which deals with the difference between healing and curing as well as rethinking the way we understand disability in the Bible

**Join us for this stirring conversation about how we typically view disability and what we might experience instead when we trade in that story for a truer, fuller one.**News, Notes, and Links:

• Amy’s work has been featured in Roxane Gay's The Audacity), We are not shadows)* (an anthology), Sojourners), and the *Freedom Road podcast). 
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