Review: Scenes With My Son
In "Scenes with My Son: Love and Grief in the Wake of Suicide," Robert Hubbard takes readers on a journey with a family shaken by mental illness so they can share in hard-won joys in defiance of depression.
As Depression, Anxiety, Grief Spike During Pandemic and Protest, Churches Offer Hope, Mental Health Resources
As Americans deal with the impacts of the pandemic and the country’s reckoning over racism, many Christian leaders, organizations and churches are providing resources not only to care for their spiritual and physical health, but also their mental health.
Health Care Workers Who Attend Church Services Have Better Mental Health
New research released this month shows that weekly worship attendance can save the lives of the lifesavers, significantly lowering the risk of “deaths of despair.”
Preaching Good News When Clinically Sad
If your mental illness is a spiritual problem, you will (most likely) not discuss it in church. If your mental illness is only a physical problem, you will talk with your therapist but not your faith community.
Pastor finds success in depression battle hrough medical, psychological treatment
Kirby Smith has his life back. After years of struggling with clinical depression – what he calls “a hell on earth” -- the Virginia Baptist pastor has discovered in both medical and psychological treatment a way to deal with his disease.