Speaking on BBC’s Ouch podcast with his daughters Katharine and Ellie, Most Rev Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury said: “I haven’t prayed for Ellie.
“I haven’t talked to Ellie about this [but] we had this discussion once around the [family] table when Ellie wasn’t there, because someone had asked me the question.”
Turning to Ellie, he said: “Your younger sister said, ‘If God changed Ellie she wouldn’t be Ellie, and we love Ellie’. So there’s that thing that Ellie’s Ellie, she’s precious.”
Ellie added: “I have felt a bit like, well, if God heals, why am I still dyspraxic? Why do I still find it really difficult to do things? But at the same time it doesn’t change the way I trust God.”
Archbishop Justin revealed that while he doesn’t pray for Ellie to be healed from dyspraxia, he does pray for his daughter Katharine’s mental health problem “on a daily basis”.
Corin Piling deputy director of Christian disability charity Livability said Christians shouldn’t be quick to assume every person with a disability needs God to heal them.
He told Premier News Hour: “We may perceive someone who is living with a disability as somehow being imperfect, but actually their experience and their very creative nature is testament to the fact they are made in the image of God and I think that is something that is very important that we elevate.
“Everybody’s experience of disability is…
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