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mental illness
Christian News
Lifeway Research: Pastors Have Experience With Mental Illness
Most pastors have seen mental illness in their pews, while some have seen it in themselves.
Wellness
Five Facts About America’s Broken Mental Health-Care System
Did you know the average age of onset for mental illnesses is 14? This is not when individuals are diagnosed, but looking back, this is the average age when many begin struggling.
Voices
Necessary Conversations: The Church, Suicide, and Mental Health
For many of us, mental illness is not a theoretical issue. Instead, it manifests in many ways and, at times, can impact nearly every moment of every day.
Wellness
The Church and Mental Illness: We Are Called to Care
For many, a mental illness—theirs or a loved one’s—cuts right into the way they see themselves, God, and their community of faith. Here are ways people need the Church to step up and connect.
Mental Health
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.
Outreach Leaders
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.
Articles for Pastors
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.
Christian News
One in Five COVID Patients Goes on to Develop Mental Illness
A new study of over 62,000 COVID-19 patients in the U.S. indicates that one in five of those patients will go on to develop mental illness within the three months following their positive virus test.