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In the UK we have been slowly breaking down the barriers to including people with disabilities. I remember as a student visiting a large...

image from – https://www.cjbecker.com/blog/hope-fear-anxiety-future/ Hope has been a theme God has been weaving into my life and prayers...

I’ve visited a few churches over the past couple of months and it’s been interesting to see examples of good accessibility practice but...

Visuals come in many formats and we use visual images in many ways in church. Stained glass windows told the stories from the Bible to...

This post comes after I have done two training sessions at churches in Liverpool and Manchester.  What I have been inspired by is the...

Photo from http://www.lancslearningdisabilityinstitutions.org.uk In 1985 I went on a college visit to a ‘mental institution’ called...

Matthew 4:4 (NIrV)4 Jesus answered, “It is written, ‘Man must not live only on bread. He must also live on every word that comes from the...

I’m going to be blogging less.  I’ve been struggling to maintain writing this and my autism teaching blog because of other commitments....

Image from:   http://walkwithjesusonline.com/power-holy-spirit/ This song has been going through my head recently…. There is power in the...

Here’s a tough subject.  It’s one that people don’t like talking about in church.  And yet it’s one that all the rest of society is...

Photo from Helen Philip: The Shine Group When I went to Keswick, one of the joys was meeting people who went to other Prospects (now...

Our week at Keswick is separate from the main meetings of morning Bible Study.  There is a very good reason for this – many people with...

What a great workshop we had. Everyone engrossed in activity. Two years ago I introduced puppets to the Keswick Convention Prospects...

Some of you will have read a post I put up a few days ago called “Storm before the Calm.”  I have taken this down as I was embarrassed at...

We bought 20 copies from 10ofThose  and planned our teaching programme with texts and stories from Matthew’s gospel.  We are teaching...

This past month has been really difficult for me.  It was building up since before the Brexit vote, but that tipped the scales.  I’ve...

I love story telling. We do much of our work with children and young people through telling the rich and varied stories of the Bible,...

My day job is supporting autistic pupils in schools and I love it. Listening to and working with these children teaches me so much.  For...

It is a privilege to be asked for advice on what a church should do to include people with additional needs. To make them feel welcome,...

I’m writing this from the Hand in Hand Conference in Eastbourne where I’ve come to deliver two sessions about making the Bible accessible...