We finish our series Advent Hope in Harsh Times this week by talking with Christine Warner, Executive Director of the Matthew 25 Initiative, an Anglican community of biblical justice and mercy contending for shalom on the earth. Christine shares her story of getting hit by a truck two and a half years ago, almost losing her life, and what the experience of recovery has taught her about hope.

One thing Christine didn’t mention on the podcast is that the Matthew 25 Initiative has a podcast: Click here to listen and subscribe to The Anglican Justice and Mercy Podcast. Their new season starts January 2021.

Another thing Christine didn’t say on the podcast but wanted to pass along to everyone is this:

In my greatest place of pain, of brokenness, of my body being crushed and sliced, of my despair and pain feeling like it would win, I encountered His beauty and light and love in such breathtaking power. I have never known myself so deeply loved by God. When I came to consciousness and I was blind, deaf, mute, in a wheelchair, seemingly unable to “contribute” to the world, I knew my worth, that I was profoundly valuable in the kingdom. That is our God! speaking his love subversively and creatively, speaking our worth as anchored in that love and our capacity to love back.That is the stuff of THE story, the deep real reality that feeds hope.

Links from this episode:

Check out the Anglican Justice and Mercy Podcast.
Check out the Matthew 25 Initiative website to get involved.
Our Cycle of Prayer Spotlight ministry this week is Christ Church Broad Ripple in Indianapolis, Indiana, led by the Rev. Todd Fisher.

Christine Warner: How Almost Dying Taught Me Hope