A Review of 'Blessed Minds' By Sarah Griffith Lund
Lund, Sarah Griffith. Blessed Minds: Breaking the Silence About Neurodiversity . Chalice Press, 2025. ISBN: 978-0827203440. “Neurodiversity is not a problem for the church to make disappear. Neurodiversity is God showing up, in human form, inviting us into deeper ways of loving one another” (page 130). With these words, Sarah Griffith Lund captures the heart of Blessed Minds: Breaking the Silence About Neurodiversity , a book that is both a theological reflection and a pastoral call to action. As a United Church of Christ pastor myself, and as a member of a “neurofamily”—a term Lund defines as “a family in which one or more members is/are neurodivergent” (page 136)—I found this book to be not only timely but also deeply necessary. Lund writes with both conviction and compassion, offering a vision of the church that is genuinely inclusive of neurodivergent people—not merely accommodating them, but recognizing their presence as a means of encountering God. This is a boo...