Bethany McKinney Fox
Writer. Speaker. Coach. Innovator. Mystic. Work-in-Progress.
Building imagination toward truly inclusive communities.
Books &
Articles
What Should Learning of Jean Vanier's Abuses do to His Legacy?, Faith & Leadership of Duke Divinity, March 2022.
"Healing." Chapter in Faithful Innovation: Beginning a Conversation for a Post-COVID Church, Cyclical Publishing, edited by Brendan McClenahan and Nick Warnes, July 2020.
"The Church Proved It can get Creative. Let's not stop Adapting. How rethinking worship can improve accessibility for people with disabilities." Christianity Today - CT Online, May 28, 2020.
"Disability." Chapter in Discerning Ethics: Diverse Christian Responses to Divisive Moral Issues, IVP Academic, edited by Tim Dearborn and Hak Joon Lee, February 2020.
Disability and the Way of Jesus: Holistic Healing in the Gospels and the Church, IVP Academic, May 2019.
"Jean Vanier Made Us All More Human," Christianity Today - CT Online, May 7, 2019.
“Beyond the Broken Body: An Ethic of Healing in the Way of Jesus,” Journal of the Christian Institute on Disability, Volume 1, No.1, Fall/Winter 2012.
“Christian Community and Uncommon Courtesy,” Journal of Disability and Religion, Volume 14, Issue 3, July 2010.
Other Writing
Stewardship, Gifts, and Disabilities (2022)
How Jesus Heals and Why It's Different than a Cure (2021)
Jesus is the Folks We Meet Who are Strangers (2021)
Being Communities of Healing in the Way of Jesus (2019)
Discussing Church: Disability, Donuts, Faith, and Friendship (2017)
Respecting the Voices of People with Intellectual Disabilities (2015)
Being in Prayer (2014)
Work
Experience
Beloved Everybody, Los Angeles, CA
Founding Leader
Cyclical LA, Los Angeles, CA
Director of Spiritual Formation
for church starters and discerning church starters
1001 New Worshiping Communities
Coach
Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA
Adjunct Professor of Christian Ethics
Director of Student Success and Access Services
First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA
Co-Director of Student Ministries (Jr. and Sr. High)
L'Arche Wavecrest, Orange, CA
Assistant/Volunteer
San Francisco Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA
Adjunct Professor, Southern California Campus
Lanterman High School, Los Angeles
Special Education Teacher
Portsbridge Hospice, Atlanta, GA
Chaplain, Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE)
Grady Hospital HIV/AIDS Clinic, Atlanta, GA
Chaplain
Education
Fuller Theological Seminary
Ph.D., Theology, Concentration: Christian Ethics; minor: Old Testament
Dissertation Title: Disability, Healing, and Jesus: Perspectives and Practices from the Gospels
Columbia Theological Seminary
Master of Divinity