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We offer daily services and a creative programme of talks, events and concerts. We seek to be a welcoming space for people to reflect, create and debate.
Come and celebrate the hope and light that Christmas brings each winter
St James’s hosts inclusive services and a cultural programme. We seek to be a welcoming space for people to reflect, create and debate.
St James’s is a place to explore, reflect, pray, and support all who are in need. We are a Church of England parish in the Anglican Communion. This is a place for everyone who’s wondering about life’s big questions and striving for a better world.
We host a year-round creative programme encompassing music, visual art and spoken word, drawing on St James’s rich cultural history including artists, writers and musicians Mary Beale, Mary Delany, William Blake, Ottobah Cugoano and Leopold Stokowski.
We try to put our faith into action by educating ourselves and speaking out on issues of injustice, especially concerning refugees, asylum, earth and racial justice, and LGBTQ+ issues.
We aspire to be a home where everyone can belong. We’re known locally and globally for our unique history and beauty, as well as faith in action, creativity and the arts, and a commitment to social and environmental justice.
We strive to be a Eucharist-centred, diverse and inclusive Christian community promoting life in abundance, wellbeing and dignity for all.
St James’s Piccadilly has been at the heart of its community since 1684. We invite you to play your part in securing this historic place for generations to come.
It costs us £3,500 per day to enable us to keep our doors open to all who need us
Your donation will help us restore our garden in Piccadilly as part of The Wren Project, making it possible for us to welcome over 300,000 people from all faiths and walks of life seeking tranquillity and inspiration each year.
St James's Church 197 Piccadilly London W1J 9LL
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Disability History Month runs from 14th November to 20th December 2024. This list was compiled by Susannah Morgan, a member of St James’s Disability and Accessibility Group.
Web Resources:
UK Disability History Month website 2024
https://ukdhm.org/
National Disability Arts Collection and Archive
https://the-ndaca.org/
Historic England, A History of Disability: from 1050 to the Present Day
https://historicengland.org.uk/research/inclusive-heritage/disability-history/
The National Archives, Disability History
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/disability-history/
The Disability Visibility Project
https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/about/
Diocese of London resources for disability history month
https://www.london.anglican.org/church-and-parish-support/diversity-and-inclusion/disability-ministry/disability-history-month/
Books:
Starter books and essay anthologies
Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories From the Twenty-First Century, (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, New York: 2020)
Emily Ladau, Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to be an Ally, (Ten Speed Press, Berkeley: 2021)
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice, (Arsenal Pulp Press, Vancouver: 2018)
Shayda Kafai, Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice and Art Activism of Sins Invalid, (Arsenal Pulp Press, Vancouver: 2021)
Eli Clare, Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation, (Duke University Press, 2015)
Sami Schalk, Black Disability Politics, (Duke University Press, 2022)
Christianity
Nancy Eisland, The Disabled God: Toward a Liberatory Theology of Disability, (Abingdon Press, Nashville: 1994)
Lisa D. Powell, The Disabled God Revisited: Trinity, Christology, and Liberation, (T&T Clark, London: 2023)
Amy Kenny, My Body is Not a Prayer Request: Disability Justice in the Church, (Brazos Press, Ada: 2022)
Julia Watts Belser, Loving Our Own Bones: Disability Wisdom and the Spiritual Subversiveness of Knowing Ourselves Whole, (Beacon Press, Boston: 2023)
Memoirs
Judith Heumann, Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist, (Penguin, London: 2021)
Alice Wong, Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life, (Vintage Books, London: 2022)
Robert Murphy, The Body Silent, (Henry Holt & Co., New York: 1987)
Diocese of London Events:
Disability Theology Webinar. Moses: Provocations From a Disabled Prophet. 14th November 2024, 7pm, zoom
https://www.london.anglican.org/event/disability-theology-webinar/
Disability Theology Webinar. Radical Rest: Shabbat as Resistance to Ableism. 21st November 2024, 7pm, zoom
https://www.london.anglican.org/event/disability-theology-webinars-with-rabbi-julia-watts-belser/
