On Thursday, September 3, at 7 p.m. ET,  join United Women in Faith members and friends for a special Reading Program Author Talk with Rabbi Julia Watts Belser on Loving Our Own Bones: Disability Wisdom and the Spiritual Subversiveness of Knowing Ourselves Whole.

About Loving Our Own Bones

Loving Our Own Bones: Disability Wisdom and the Spiritual Subversiveness of Knowing Ourselves Whole invites readers into a thoughtful and spiritually nourishing deep dive into disability and the Bible. Through fresh and unexpected readings, Loving Our Own Bones paints a luminous portrait of what it means to be disabled and one of God’s beloved. Braiding the insights of disabled, feminist, Black, and queer thinkers with her own experiences as a queer disabled Jewish feminist, Rabbi Julia Watts Belser talks back to biblical commentators who traffic in disability stigma and shame. What unfolds is a profound gift of disability wisdom, a radical act of spiritual imagination and biblical scholarship that invites readers to claim the power and promise of spiritual dissent and to nourish their own souls through radical self-love.

Loving Our Own Bones will be a 2027 United Women in Faith Reading Program book selection in the spiritual growth category.

Register here. Learn more about Rabbi Julia Watts Belser here.

All are welcome. There is no cost to participate. ASL interpretation will be available. Pre-reading of the book is not required, but it will enrich your experience of the author talk. Registration is accepted on a first-come, first-served basis.