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We offer daily services and a cultural programme of talks, events and concerts. We seek to be a welcoming space for people to reflect, create and debate
From Sun 6 to 27 April
Breastplate will be displayed behind the altar of the Side Chapel and lit from below so that it glows from within, thereby revealing its feather-filled fragility and the talismanic contents of its pockets.
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.
We host a year-round creative programme encompassing music, visual art and spoken word.
We offer hospitality to people going through homelessness and speak out on issues of injustice, especially concerning refugees, asylum, racial justice, and LGBTQ+ issues.
St James’s strives to advocate for earth justice and to develop deeper connections with nature.
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.
The work of St James’s, it costs us £5,000 per day to enable us to keep our doors open to all who need us.
A reimagined St James’s realised. A redesigned garden, courtyard and new building capacity—all fully accessible— will provide beautiful spaces for all as well as improving our environmental performance.
Whether shooting a blockbuster TV series or creating a unique corporate event, every hire at St James’s helps our works within the community.
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/
