Miriam Spies recently graduated from Emmanuel College (Toronto) with her PhD that weaves incarnational theology with disability and crip studies to imagine how crip people serve in ministry. She is an ordained minister in The United Church of Canada and is currently serving as the chair of worship for General Council 45 (the denominational meeting). Miriam is teaching this summer at St Stephen’s College in Edmonton. She has previously served as a member of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches. She uses the language of crip and queer to describe herself. 

Robert Monson is a writer, musician, and Black disabled theoethecist that does work around Black disabilities, Black Christianities, and soft masculinity. He is a co-director of the nonprofit enfleshed and is also a current PhD student. You can find his work on Substack at “Musings From a Broken Heart” and his two podcasts; Three Black Men: Theology, Culture, and the World Around Us and Black Coffee and Theology.

Louise Gosbell is a biblical scholar with a focus on disability in the New Testament. She currently serves as the Research Manager at the Australian University of Theology where she lectures in New Testament, disability and is about to start teaching a new subject on children and teens with disability and neurodivergence in church communities. Louise’s scholarly work focuses on biblical studies and history and what it means to read the New Testament accounts of disability and embodiment in their ancient context. Louise’s PhD on disability and the gospel was published with Mohr Siebeck. Louise has also published numerous journal articles and book chapters on disability and the Bible and in church practice. Louise also wrote a set of accessibility guidelines for the Sydney Diocese of the Anglican Church of which she is a member. Louise is a member of numerous disability boards and organisations in Sydney where she lives. Louise lives with an acquired neurological disability following a significant illness.