Ernest and Esther Weed Memorial Lecture | Greg Woods | Cripping Waiting Worship: Unlearning the Silence Around Ableism (Hybrid)
Cripping Waiting Worship: Unlearning the Silence Around Ableism will explore the intersections of disability justice, disability theology, and Quaker spirituality. Drawing from personal experience growing up within the Religious Society of Friends, Greg Woods will reflect on the pervasive silence around disability within faith communities and the need to unlearn ableism embedded in our practices of worship, care, and community. This talk will invite participants to consider how waiting worship can be "cripped"—reimagined through the lens of disability—to become a space of access, solidarity, and liberation.
ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Greg Woods (he/him) is a disabled Quaker minister, theologian, facilitator, and writer based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he lives with his wife Jenn, their child Margaret, a puppy named Sofie, a cat named Kitty, and four lively chickens. He currently serves as a Program Consultant with Beacon Hill Friends House, where he co-leads the Living Your Call: Vocational Discernment program alongside Jen Newman.
Greg has over 15 years of experience in Quaker ministry and spiritual leadership. Currently, he serves on the preaching team at New City Church in Minneapolis. His work is grounded in a passion for disability liberation theology and its connections to Quaker spirituality.
Greg holds a Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary and a BA from Earlham College.
Event Accessibility
Beacon Hill Friends House is working on making our historic space accessible to everyone. (Covid policies for onsite attendees are below).
CART Captioning will be available for all participants (on Zoom and in-person).
Physical space: This event will take place in our Meeting Room, which does have a ground-level entrance (available by an external doorbell). Our primary entrance is up a flight of stairs. On the ground level, we have a single-user, all-gender bathroom with wall-mounted handrails and ample space for chairs and/or aides. We are not a scent-free space but tend to be low-scent.
Attending onsite at BHFH (Covid policy and directions)
Covid policies: All in-person attendees are required to wear a mask while inside. Masks will be available for those who forget them.
Getting to BHFH: Use the address "8 Chestnut St., Boston, MA, 02108" for navigation. We recommend taking public transit to get here: We are a short walk from every transit line in Boston. If you choose to drive in, paid street parking is available on Charles Street (and on Beacon Street before 6 pm). We also have parking passes available for $9 to the Boston Common Garage.