This week, Adrian Warnock continues hosting a widespread conversation about mental health and faith on his Patheos blog. Earlier this month, I answered a question he posed: How has your religious community historically seen mental illness? And how does your faith, today, shape the way you see mental illness? His new question is this: How [...]
In celebration of the launch of my new book, Troubled Minds, I decided to post the article that started it all. This was published in Leadership Journal two years ago, and it was the first time I ever wrote about mental illness and my family’s experience. This project started a life-changing journey for me, and [...]
In celebration of the launch of my new book, Troubled Minds, I decided to post the article that started it all. This was published in Leadership Journal two years ago, and it was the first time I ever wrote about mental illness and my family’s experience. This project started a life-changing journey for me, and [...]
In celebration of the launch of my new book, Troubled Minds, I decided to post the article that started it all. This was published in Leadership Journal two years ago, and it was the first time I ever wrote about mental illness and my family’s experience. This project started a life-changing journey for me, and [...]
As a writer and advocate for people affected my mental illness, I’m excited to tell you about another contribution to our growing national conversation about mental health. May is Mental Health Awareness Month and a fitting time to increase our knowledge of mental illness. One of the ways we can grow in understanding is by [...]
On a visit to the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Illinois, I realized I had been operating with a very shallow understanding of the 16th president of the United States and the times in which he led. Because Lincoln holds mythical status in our culture, I had never bothered to learn more [...]
Last week, news reports exposed the Nevada State mental health system for its practice of regularly placing people with mental illness on Greyhound buses and sending them to other states. In 2012, Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital in Las Vegas sent nearly 400 patients to 176 cities and 45 states throughout the country. The state claims this [...]
I’m excited to announce that Troubled Minds is now available! One lucky (and randomly selected) blog follower already won a free copy. If you’re interested in getting your own copy, you can buy it at the InterVarsity Press website. And now, for the next two weeks, you can get 40 percent off! Just go the [...]
My friend Karen (you can read more about her and her beautiful book at the end of this post) has provided this post, describing a story of personal transformation. Through financial crisis, she learned an important lesson we all need. This year, during Easter Vigil at Old St. Pats Catholic church in Chicago, I sat [...]
Like most people, I don’t personally know Rick Warren. But like so many, I feel as if I do. The best-selling author of The Purpose-Driven Life and pastor of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California, Warren has spent the last decade largely in the public eye, causing some to dub him “America’s pastor.” He has [...]
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