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Greg Woods will present this year's Ernest and Esther Weed Memorial Lecture, "Cripping Waiting Worship: Unlearning the Silence Around Ableism." Drawing from personal experience growing up within the Religious Society of Friends, Greg Woods will reflect on the pervasive silence around disability within faith communities and the need to unlearn ableism embedded in our practices of worship, care, and community. This talk will invite participants to consider how waiting worship can be "cripped"—reimagined through the lens of disability—to become a space of access, solidarity, and liberation.
Greg Woods (he/him) is a disabled Quaker minister, theologian, facilitator, and writer based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he lives with his wife Jenn, their child Margaret, a puppy named Sofie, a cat named Kitty, and four lively chickens. He currently serves as a Program Consultant with Beacon Hill Friends House, where he co-leads the Living Your Call: Vocational Discernment program alongside Jen Newman.
Greg has more than 15 years of experience in Quaker ministry and spiritual leadership. Currently, he serves on the preaching team at New City Church in Minneapolis. His work is grounded in a passion for disability liberation theology and its connections to Quaker spirituality.
Greg holds a Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary and a BA from Earlham College.