Disability, Marriage, and Faith When Healing Doesn’t Come: Cameron & Annie Horner

What does faith look like when healing doesn’t come? And how can churches move beyond welcoming people with disabilities to creating genuine belonging? Cameron and Annie Horner join Preston to explore disability, marriage, suffering, and what the church misses when disabled voices are sidelined.

Cameron and Annie share how they met at the Exiles in Babylon conference and how vulnerability shaped their relationship. Together, they challenge assumptions about disability and offer practical ways churches can remove barriers to worship, community, and leadership. 

Cameron Horner is a quadriplegic pastor, speaker, and ministry leader who became paralyzed from the chest down at age 18 after a diving accident. Annie Horner is a mental health therapist with Living Whole Hearted, a clinic based in Portland, Oregon. Together, they lead Accessible Grace, equipping churches to move beyond inclusion to genuine belonging for people with disabilities.

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CHAPTERS

• 00:00 Faith when healing doesn’t come
• 00:45 Why disability belongs in the church conversation
• 03:36 Meet Cameron and Annie Horner
• 04:22 A love story that started at Exiles in Babylon
• 07:18 Annie’s story: abuse, faith, and finding hope
• 11:40 From Ireland to a marriage proposal
• 12:47 Dating, disability, and assumptions about relationships
• 16:37 Building a relationship on what matters
• 19:33 Sponsor: Western Seminary
• 20:30 What people misunderstand about their marriage
• 21:24 Purity culture and the “ideal spouse” checklist
• 24:06 How vulnerability made room for love
• 26:46 When disability happens during a marriage
• 29:59 Disability and the church: where do we start?
• 32:08 Accessibility beyond ramps and parking spaces
• 35:21 Seeing disability as part of the body’s diversity
• 38:48 How church culture can exclude families
• 40:59 Who gets to lead in our churches?
• 43:12 Cameron’s calling to pastor and teach
• 46:03 Moses, disability, and God’s accommodation
• 48:11 “Stand if you’re able”: why language matters
• 52:31 Disability theology and the resurrected Jesus
• 56:18 How should we talk about disability?
• 58:29 A first step for church leaders: listen
• 61:09 What disability teaches us about being human
• 62:48 Celebrating faithfulness without a miraculous ending
• 65:18 Cameron and Preston’s marathon rivalry

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