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Religious affairs programme, tackling thorny issues in a thought-provoking manner

Religious affairs programme, tackling the thornier issues of the day in a thought-provoking manner

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All Things Considered: We Hear With Our Hearts

We Hear With Our Hearts

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Roy Jenkins reports on the challenges facing deaf Christians in churches.

Roy Jenkins reports on some of the challenges facing the deaf community as they negotiate their way around churches and Christian worship.

Deafness gets a pretty bad press in the Bible. But as the current series of  Strictly Come Dancing demonstrates, deaf people can and do achieve great things regardless of their disability. In this programme Roy Jenkins reports on some of the remarkable members of Wales' deaf community, as they negotiate their way around Christian worship and some occasionally unwelcoming churches.  We hear from Lauren Francis, a Salvation Army band member, who is progressively losing her hearing; and we hear from Rev Pat Collins, who is profoundly deaf, but who has found a voice in the hearing community through her friend and signer Liz Peters. Adam and Maria Guichard talk about setting up Deaf Church West Wales, while Rev Dr Hannah Lewis comments on deaf liberation theology. It is above all a story of ability, not disability. As Lauren Francis comments, 'I don't believe we hear only with our ears, we also hear with our hearts'.

This programmes was first broadcast in December 2021.

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