Wellness

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.