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Nine of these ten chapters have been published previously in the Journal of Disability and Sport (vol. 21, issue 2, 2017) and the tenth (Watson, Parker and Swain) in Quest (Journal of the National Association for Kinesiology in Higher Education, 2017). The title accurately reflects the three areas under discussion, although the chapters could have been divided between those that deal with disability sport (the majority) and those that deal with disability in relation to ‘mainstream’ sport (Jones, Wall, Swinton, Watson and Bolt, Watson, Parker and Swain). Standing at the interface between academic theology, other academic disciplines and the realities of everyday life, this book represents a conversation in which practical theologians have much interest. If it does nothing more than cement in place the absolute necessity of this triple foundation, it will have done very well. It is written by academics, for academics, but most chapters are much more widely accessible. All have a welcome passion, reminiscent of a sermon, that is too often missing in academic writing. Some (e.g. Wall, Braye, Hargaden) shout, ‘This ought not to be so,’ while others (e.g. Jones, Schrier, Watson and Bolt, Brock) say, ‘Listen to what might be.’ Seven themes are repeated across the chapters.