Rev. Raedorah C. Stewart is known as RevSisRaedorah in publications and QueenQueenDom on social media platforms manages a trifecta of disabilities with faith in God, meditation by the water, and medications. I hold a Masters of Arts in Christian Leadership from a Calvinist seminary on the West coast;  MDiv equivalency courses in biblical Greek and Hebrew from the same; and completion of the Doctor of Ministry in Spirituality and Story from a Wesleyan seminary on the East coast.  I have held committee positions in the American Academy of Religion including the Committee of Persons with Disabilities in the Profession, Womanist Theology and Ethics groups, Queer Studies in Religion, Theology and the Arts, and African American and Indigenous Preaching.  Publications include poetry in “Deeper Shades of Purple:  Womanism in Religion and Society” through the NYU Press; and in other publications by and for Black women in the church; article in the Tikkun Magazine article, “Made by God, Broken by Life: Developing an African American Hermeneutic for Disability”; article in the Sage Journal Theology Today, “Loop, Hook, Pull: Disabled by Design—Creating a Narrative Theology of Disability”; and academic paper in the International Journal of Black Theology, “Say Now Shibboleth–Queerying Words at Work in Worship.”  I am ordained clergy, a seminary professor, and Director of Christian education at my home church. 

This podcast is launched in 2021 with grace and generosity by support from the Henry Luce Foundation and Columbia University’s Center on African American Religion, Sexual Politics and Social Justice (CARSS).  I am grateful for the review team who discerned the urgency of advancing disability as a justice issue in the 21st Century and saw value in my proposal to receive one of their Rapid Response Grants.