Presentations
Spies, Miriam. “Persevere in your witness – Just Communion: Bible Study.” Presented (plenary) at the 27th Assembly of the World Communion of Reformed Churches, Chiang Mai, Thailand, October 2025.
———. “An Incarnational Crip Theology and Practice of Ministry.” Presented (plenary) at the Institute of Disability and Theology, Denver, CO, June 16, 2025.
———. “An Incarnational Crip Theology and Practice of Preaching.” Presented at the Vocation and Disability Seminar, Collegeville, MN, May 2, 2023.
———. “Cripping Eschatological Time.” Presented at the Canadian Theological Society, Toronto, ON, June 3, 2025.
———. “Cripping Liturgical Space.” Presented at the American Academy of Religions: Ecclesial Practices Unit, San Antonio, Texas, November 18, 2023.
———. “Decolonizing the Supercrip Body of Christ.” Presented at the Christian Left Conference, Emmanuel College, Online, July 24, 2021.
———. “Disability, Embodied Pedagogy, and Christian Leadership: Journeying through Seminary.” Presented at the Common Awards and the Theological Educators’ Network, Durham, UK, July 2021.
———. “Liturgical Imagination at Full Stretch: Possibilities for Leadership of Disabled People.” Presented at the American Academy of Religion, Online, November 30, 2021.
———. “Methodological Decisions: Incarnational Theology in Conversation with Disability & Crip Studies.” Presented at the Creative Justice: Disability and the Church, McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, ON, June 10, 2023.
———. “Ministry with Youth with Disabilities: What Can the Church Learn from Medical Practice?” Presented at the Disability and Youth Ministry Conference, Princeton Theological Seminary, February 2, 2018.
———. “Response to The Disabled God Revisited: Trinity, Christology, and Liberation by Lisa Powell.” Presented at the American Academy of Religions: Co-sponsored by the Christian Systematic Theology Unit and the Religion and Disability Studies Unit, San Diego, California, November 24, 2024.
Publications
In process:
Spies, Miriam. “Cripping Liturgy.” In Disrupting Images of the Church, edited by Laura MacGregor, Thomas E. Reynolds, and Allen Jorgenson. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, forthcoming.
———. “Pushes and Pulls on my Crip Bodymind: Response to ‘The Disabled God Revisited’ by Lisa Powell.” Syndicate Network (blog), forthcoming. https://syndicate.network/symposia/theology/the-disabled-god-revisited/.
———. “Theological Response to Cycles of Debilitation.” In “Survival, Resistance, Flourishing: Religion and Disability, edited by Heike Peckruhn & Kirk VanGilder. London: Taylor and Francis, forthcoming.
———. “Trinity and Crip Solidarity.” In The Handbook of Disability and Christian Theology, edited by Sarah Jean Barton and Devan Stahl. London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, forthcoming.
Published:
Spies, Miriam. “Cripping the Failed Body of Christ.” In Decolonizing Church, Theology, and Ethics in Canada, edited by Becca Whitla and Néstor Medina. Montréal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2025, 125-142.
———. “From Belonging as Supercrip to Misfitting as Crip: Journeying through Seminary.” Journal of Disability & Religion 25, no. 3 (March 2021): 296–311.
———. “Liturgical Imagination at Full Stretch: Possibilities for Leadership of Disabled People.” Concilium: International Journal of Theology 2020, no. 5 (December 2020): 128–137.
———. “Making Space, Offering Voice.” International Review of Mission 108 (June 1, 2019): 25–37. https://doi.org/10.1111/irom.12259.
———. “Review of Black Disability Politics by Sami Schalk (2022).” Canadian Journal of Disability Studies 14, no. 1 (May 5, 2025) 243-247.
———. “Review of Letters with Smokie: Blindness and More-than-Human Relations by Rod Michalko and Dan Goodley (2023).” Canadian Journal of Disability Studies 13, no. 1 (April 22, 2024): 159–63.
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