Attached Paper In-person November Annual Meeting 2026

Jesus Christ as a Cripped Apocalyse and Hope of New Creation

Abstract for Online Program Book (maximum 150 words)

I argue in this paper  Piepzna-Samarasinha’s reading of the character Laura Olamina, in Octavia Butler’s novel The Parable of the Sower, as a Black, genderqueer, disabled person who leads her community with the help of her disablity to a restored community is emblemic of Jesus Christ, when seen through the lens of Black and Disability theologies, as a Black, disabled risen Lord, promises an end to this world and birth of a new creation or a New Heaven and a new Earth.