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The Church and Mental Illness

I encourage churches to actively train and deploy “Christian firemen”—running toward those being devastated by the “flames” of mental illness when everyone else is running away.

Rethinking Mental Health Care: How the Church Can Transform a Broken System

Mental health is the great mission field of the 21st century, and it is time the Church recognized its God-given role. The involvement of the Church is the missing piece necessary to transform our broken system.

Christian, Do Not Bypass Your Grief

Grief is an important aspect of the human experience and we should stop trying to simply move past it.

Youth Bible Study on Mental Health: 12 Resources to Use With Teens

Leading a youth Bible study on mental health can provide fascinating, applicable insights for students.

Post Traumatic Church Disorder: 12 Symptoms and 5 Treatments

Just below the surface, it affects daily interactions, vision casting and strategic planning. It affects how we relate to God and how we relate to others. I call it Post Traumatic Church Disorder.

Medical Missions: How Community Health Evangelism Heals Lives and Transforms Hurting Communities

Community Health Evangelism/Education (CHE) incorporates physical and spiritual education with a special focus on prevention of disease, not treatment after the fact. These medical missions heal an transform communities.

Coming Out, Mental Health Crisis in the Background of Steve Austin’s Suicide

Recent blog posts from former pastor Steve Austin show that before his apparent suicide, he had come out as queer and his wife, Lindsey Austin, was hospitalized for significant mental health problems.

Friends Mourn Steve Austin, Former Pastor and Author Who Wrote About Suicide and Mental Health

Steve Austin, a former pastor who wrote candidly about his struggles with mental health, has died. 

Rick Warren: ‘It’s Not a Sin to Be Sick’

Pastor Rick Warren has praised a pastoral letter discussing mental health and the church. The letter, titled, “Hope and Healing,” calls for an end to the stigma around mental illness and for greater collaboration between science and medical professionals and people of faith.

50 Good Mental Health Habits

Good mental health does not happen by accident. Mentally healthy people make small, daily choices that contribute to their mental health.

The Surprising Way This Group of Nuns Provides Mental Health Ministry

You can see in the numbers how much mental health was just a real concern. These nuns are not psychologists and they needed extra help. Here's what they're using today.

Can Someone Be Spiritually Healthy and Still Experience Mental Health Challenges?

“Can someone (a) embrace the gospel, (b) practice spiritual disciplines, display (c) personal devotion and (d) devout character, and (e) have a robust theology and still experience mental health challenges?”

Do You Need to Update Your Kidmin Wellness Policies and Procedures?

As we begin to slowly reopen our children’s ministry, we are updating our wellness and sick policies. I wanted to share them in case your church is in this process as well.

Quarantine’s Psychological Toll: 3 Disorders to Watch Out For

Learning from the history of SARS and other illness-related quarantines, mental, emotional and relational health will have suffered under the period of social distancing. Here's what church leaders need to know.

Korn Guitarist Helps People Heal by Launching Wellness Centers

Brian “Head” Welch of the band Korn has recently launched a series of wellness centers to help people pursue healing of mind and body. At the same time, he and his daughter are continuing to share their story of redemption.

Steve Cuss: The Anxiety That Is Unique to Church Leaders

"Church leadership puts us under tremendous pressure, every one of us," says Steve Cuss. Steve gained valuable insights about dealing with anxiety when he was a trauma chaplain, insights he has found to be highly relevant to church leaders today.

Dealing With Depression in Ministry

The harsh reality of life in a dramatically broken world and what remaining sin does to the hearts of us all.

The Idol That’s Eating Away at Your Church

What do these 20 celebrities have in common? All of them have battled eating disorders -- unhealthy relationships with food they’ve all been brave enough to go public...

10 Questions to Assess the Health of a Pastor

We must address pastoral health if we want to encourage healthy churches. The two easily go together.

6 Ways Watching Pornography Affects Your Mental Health

Christian counselor Brad Hambrick discusses six pornography effects that impact a person's mental health.

DC Talk’s Drummer, MercyMe’s Sound Man Unexpectedly Dies

DC Talk's drummer Rick “Mayday” May unexpectedly died on Friday (March 24) after a fungal infection he had been battling led to other complications that resulted in liver failure. He was 54.

Gabe Lyons: Engage Culture and Reverse Negative Cultural Stereotypes

Gabe Lyons of Q Ideas addresses questions like: What are some perceptions people have of Christians? Why is it so hard for Christians to engage culture?

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