Event Details
- Location: Southwark Cathedral
- Address: London Bridge, London, SE1 9DA
- Start date: 17th September 2026
- End date: 17th September 2026
- Times: 18:30
- Entry fee: £5
Join Revd Canon Timothy Goode as he discusses his new book ‘Breaking not Broken’ with the Dean of Southwark.
In Breaking not Broken: Ableism and the Church after Constantine, Timothy Goode offers a searching and hopeful theological challenge to the Church’s inherited assumptions about bodies, healing, leadership, and belonging. Weaving together autobiography, biblical theology, liturgical reflection, and engagement with disability and liberation theology, the book exposes how ableism has become embedded in Christian theology, architecture, worship, and imagination – often unnoticed, yet profoundly harmful.
Grounded in a theology of the risen and wounded Christ, Breaking not Broken calls the Church to repentance and renewal. It rejects narratives of defect, cure, and conformity, and instead reclaims a Christian anthropology shaped by vulnerability, interdependence, and grace.
Written for theologians, clergy, church leaders, and all who care about the future of the Church, the book insists that disabled bodies are not problems to be solved, but sacred gifts through which the Church may rediscover what it truly means to be whole.
