About this episode
Dan Weatherall and Becky Lewis discuss the impact of neurodiversity in church life, emphasizing strengths and struggles associated with autism, ADHD, and dyslexia.
Dan Weatherall welcomes back Becky Lewis to discuss neurodiversity in church life, recorded during Autism Acceptance Month and following a Birmingham Neurodiversity Awareness Day run by the Christadelphian Support Network (chsn.org.uk). Drawing on family, personal, and teaching experience, they define neurodiversity (which includes everyone) and neurodivergence (about one in seven people) and outline common strengths and struggles for autism, ADHD, and dyslexia. They discuss how, in a church context, this can affect worship, relationships, Bible reading, and participation, while also bringing gifts like deep interests, creativity, justice-focus, and big-picture thinking. They close with the biblical call to unity in diversity, for example in the "one body" image of Ephesians 4.
People in this episode
Host: Dan Weatherall
Guest: Becky Lewis
Topics covered
- neurodiversity
- church life
- autism
- ADHD
- dyslexia
- unity in diversity
- faith
Keywords
- neurodiversity
- church
- faith
- autism
- ADHD
- dyslexia
- Ephesians 4
- unity
- diversity
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Christadelphian Support Network
Places: Birmingham
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