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On The VUU this Week (June 16th), we chatted with Dr. Bethany McKinney Fox, Rev. Dr. Meg Richardson and Rev Theresa Soto on Welcoming Children, Youth and Adults with Special Needs – The VUU #263
Bethany McKinney Fox (PhD in Christian Ethics from Fuller Theological Seminary), currently works at Fuller as adjunct professor of Christian ethics and runs the Access Services Office, working to make the institution more accessible and welcoming to students with disabilities. She is the founding pastor of Beloved Everybody Church, a community of people with and without intellectual disabilities, participating and leading together. She has a new book: Disability and the Way of Jesus: Holistic Healing in the Gospels and the Church (IVP Academic).
Rev. Dr. Meg Richardson joined the faculty of Starr King School in 2014. Dr. Richardson, a graduate of Harvard Divinity School and Durham University, with a certificate in Theology from Manchester College Oxford, has studied our living tradition in both the United States and Great Britain, and was mentored by scholars including Conrad Wright, James Luther Adams, and Sheridan Gilley. In addition to serving as the Director of the UU Certificate program, Dr. Richardson teaches UU History and Polity.
The Rev. Theresa I. Soto is a minister and liberation worker currently living in Ashland, Oregon, with their partner, the Rev. Sean Dennison. Soto’s lived experience informs their way of engaging with others, from asking insightful questions, to speaking difficult truths. Soto is a 2016 graduate of Meadville Lombard Theological School.
Production support provided by Margalie Belizaire.
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