Without Limits: Singing the Congregation’s Song

There has been much written over the past three decades on disability inclusion in the church, including making the worship space itself more accommodating, but very little about the specific content of our congregational singing and our approach to congregational participation: that is, what we sing and how we teach it. As a pastor and church musician with over 25 years’ experience, and as the parent of an adult child with an intellectual disability, John Allen Bankson examines how to make the church’s song more inclusive, not only in terms of what we choose to sing, but also in terms of how we create a truly inclusive worship experience by incorporating the principles of universal design.