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Disability Justice

The books in this list can provide important resources to congregations and individuals who are interested in working for justice for people with disabilities. They cover a variety of topics within disability justice including ableism, the treatment of people with disabilities in congregations, and the intersection of racism and ableism.

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Lamar Hardwick, How Ableism Fuels Racism: Dismantling the Hierarchy of Bodies in the Church (Brazos, 2024)

Hardwick believes that ableism and disability discrimination are the root causes of racial bias and injustice in American culture and in the church. He uses historical records, biblical interpretation, and disability studies to examine how ableism in America led to the creation of images, idols, and institutions that perpetuate both disability and racial discrimination.

Amy Kenny, My Body is Not a Prayer Request: Disability Justice in the Church (Brazos, 2022)

Written by a disabled Christian, this book shows that the church is missing out on the prophetic witness and blessing of disability. Kenny reflects on her experiences inside the church to expose unintentional ableism and cast a new vision for Christian communities to engage disability justice.

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Tatum Tricarico, Blessed Is the Body: Disability Justice and the Community of Christ (Herald Press, 2026)

This book is a Lenten devotional centered on disability justice that invites readers to expand their understanding of God, themselves, and community with reflections and practices for considering Disability justice, history, and culture alongside stories from the Bible about Disabled individuals like Moses and the woman with a flow of blood.

Naomi Lawson Jacobs, and Emily Richardson, At the Gates: Disability, Justice and the Churches (Darton, Longman and Todd, 2022)

This book is a collection of prophetic and transformative narratives of experience, shared directly by disabled people who have rarely been enabled to speak in Christian books about disability. This book calls for churches to move from a care-based approach to disability, to one that is focused on justice, equality, and access to churches for disabled Christians.

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Kala Allen Omeiza, Autistic and Black: Our Experiences of Growth, Progress, and Empowerment (Jessica Kingsley, 2024)

This book brings together a community of voices from across the world, spanning religions, sexuality and social economic status to provide a deep and rich understanding of what it means to be autistic and Black.

Darla Schumm, Healing Ableism: Stories about Disability and Religious Life (Rutgers University Press, 2025)

This book explores the extraordinary stories of people with disabilities who struggle with the ordinary human challenges of faith and doubt, exclusion and inclusion, and injustice and justice through a blend of story-telling, cultural critique, and theory.

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Amy Julia Becker, White Picket Fences (Nav Press, 2018)

Becker examines how able-bodied privilege and white privilege have affected her life. The mother of a daughter with Down syndrome, Becker explores the harm that privilege causes to both those who have it and those who do not.