Checking On Our Mental Health
Columnist Christopher Dixon writes that while we want to enjoy the Christmas season, this year it brings no reprieve from the heaviness that we’re all enduring. Thus, we need to keep our mental health in check.
Sensitivity to mental illness
Many people with mental illnesses don’t exactly know how to relate to others or whom to trust, but everyone needs friends and people who care for them. Such a friendship can be like any other and includes sharing of personal information by both parties and,
Mental illness and the church
Humankind has struggled with the matter of mental disorders — or mental illness — as long as people can remember. In Jesus' day -- and today -- people feared what they didn't understand. What can churches do to reach out?
SBC urges action on mental health, resolving to provide ‘biblical counsel’ for people with disorders
Compared to Southern Baptist Convention resolutions on the Boy Scouts and protection of children from sex predators, the one urging churches to develop intentional, compassionate ministries for the mentally ill got scant attention from local and national media. But it wasn’t overlooked by Ronnie Floyd,
Ministers often need help caring for their own mental health
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Through a Glass Darkly: Churches respond to mental illness
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Because of a fear, mistrust of behavioral sciences, a fuzzy understanding of brain function and a poor theology of sin many Christians, chuches and ministers