Since 2012, the annual conference on Disability and Church 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. If you want to sign up to receive information about Disability Conferences each year, fill in this sign up form. You can also follow the Disability Conference on Twitter: @livingedgeconf
Conference Resources
The booklet ‘Something Worth Sharing’ is available to download for free. It contains ideas, responses and resources from our 2018 conference. It explores access and theology, language and structures, communication and participation.
The booklet ‘Calling from the Edge’ celebrating the first 5 conferences is also available to download. This booklet and ‘Something Worth Sharing’ have been made possible thanks to the generous support of the Westhill Foundation.
Previous Conferences
Below you will find videos and transcripts from previous conferences.
2021 Still Calling from the Edge
Below you will find videos, documents etc from the 2021 conference.
Fiona MacMillan: Introduction to the conference (video)
Sarah: Storyteller (video)
Fiona MacMillan: Keynote Address (video)
Sam Wells: Godly Play (video)
Jemma: Storyteller (video)
Called to the Feast Art Gallery: video with audio description
Emily Richardson: Closing Liturgy (video) (and transcript)
2020 Telling Encounters
Below you will find videos, documents etc from the 2020 conference.
Fiona MacMillan: Introduction to the conference (video)
Naomi Jacobs-Lawson: Storyteller (video) Transcript
Donald Eadie: Encounter (video) Transcript
Sam Wells: Godly Play (video) Introduction (document)
Emily Richardson and Jane Wallman-Girdlestone: Encounter (video) Notes (document)
Workshop: Path through the Woods (video) Introduction (document)
Sam Wells: Narrative Theology (video)
Hannah Lewis: Liturgy (video) Liturgy (pdf)
Gallery: Path through the Woods (video) Introduction (document)
Gallery: Windows on the World (video) Introduction (document)
Documents from the 2020 conference
2019 Thinking Differently About God
Below you will find videos, texts and more from the speakers at the 2019 conference.
Fiona MacMillan: Introduction to the conference (video)
Dan Barnes-Davies: Storyteller (video)
Ann Memmott: Talk on autism and church (video) and Powerpoint presentation.
Sam Wells: Talk on the parable of the persistent widow – part 1 (video) and part 2 (video). Notes from Sam’s talk are here and here.
Rachel Noel: Storyteller (video) and text.
Bingo Allison, Sue Hartley, Krysia Waldock and Philip Hickman: Panel (video) and notes/ pdf presentations: Bingo, Sue (Powerpoint), Sue (pdf), Krysia and Philip.
2019 Conference Eucharist: Liturgy and Poem
Workshop: Descriptions
Sunday morning: liturgy (pdf) and Ann Memmott’s address (audio)
2018 Something Worth Sharing
(all the below links are to videos)
Fiona MacMillan- introduction to conference
Sam Wells (intro prayer) & Nikki Goodhew – storyteller
Sam Wells on practical theology
June Boyce-Tillman on language
Ann Memmott on access
Panel – introductory speeches
2017 Just as I am
Ali Lyon video
Helen Tyers video
and Powerpoint
Panel Discussion video
Sam Wells video
Saturday Conference closing liturgy (pdf)
Tim Goode Sunday morning sermon (pdf)
Sunday morning healing service for St Luke’s day
2016 Prophets and Seers
Donald Eadie – notes from talk (pdf)
Ann Memmott: notes from talk (pdf)
Emily Richardson: being a digital prophet (pdf)
2015 Living on the Edge
Sam Wells: opening address (pdf)
Ann Memmott talk (Powerpoint slides)
Naomi Jacobs talk (Powerpoint slides)
Susan Wolfe presentation (pdf)
2014 Transforming our Vision
Inclusive Church in partnership with St Martin-in-the-Fields held its 3rd Day Conference in October 2014. Speakers included Professor John Hull. Emeritus Professor or Religious Education University of Birmingham.
2013 Places of Belonging
Places of Belonging was a day-long conference on disability, mental health, inclusion and God hosted by Inclusive Church and St Martin in the Fields at the church in Trafalgar Square. It brought together 75 people from Greater London and beyond – to pray, to reflect, and to envision new ways of being a community in which everyone’s abilities are valued and shared. Click through to read the Conference Report.
2012 Opening the Roof
In October 2012 in partnership with St Martin in the Fields, Inclusive Church held a national conference: Opening the Roof: Opening the conversation about disability. Click through to read the Conference Report.