UVC, Zoie Sheets | “Disability wasn’t the reason I was excluded - ableism was”

Zoie is a fourth-year medical student, staff member for UVC’s partner young adult ministry, the Inclusive Collective, and a disability activist and consultant. They work with various organizations across the city — particularly in healthcare and faith spaces — to increase accessibility and support communities in unlearning harmful beliefs about disability. Zoie is a member of UVC Wicker Park. 

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We hope you enjoy guest preachers, like Zoie, who’ve committed to sharing throughout our sermon series ‘Disabled Jesus, Disabled Love.’ Disabled leaders, thinkers, and advocates have always been at the heart of Christian communities. In the US, one in four people live with a disability. Yet our faith has a long history of teaching about our bodies & needs in ways that hurt, limit and erase. Join us as we learn from and consider the experiences of disabled leaders in our communities to better understand how we might begin to create access for one another, build community, and live into the belovedness of our bodies

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