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- Make a level path for my feet: disability equality, and loveProfessor Tom Shakespeare, Professor of Disability Research, will deliver the Catholic Union’s 2024 Craigmyle Lecture is on 19 November entitled ‘Make a level path for my feet: disability equality, and love’. Baroness Hollins, President of the Catholic Union, will Chair the event. Professor Tom Shakespeare says: “In the current moment, there exists much potential for religious communities to ally with the disability rights movement in creating accessible spaces of worship, new theological approaches to disability, and shaping a new spiritual approach to disability justice. We are disabled by society, not by our bodies and therefore need to change social systems… Read More »Make a level path for my feet: disability equality, and love
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