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13 January, 2025
Youth in your church want to talk about mental health

Conversations and vulnerability can overcome shame, according to this pastor's daughter

02 July, 2024
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture

An extended Reading the Bestsellers review of a 2022 book by Gabor Maté and Daniel Maté

01 September, 2023
Christian living in the storm of anxiety

Learning about mental health helps us love our neighbours and ourselves, writes psychotherapist Andrea Nwabuike

05 November, 2022
A human Christian response to depression

Rod Wilson reflects on how to avoid secular and spiritual missteps

07 October, 2022
Mental illness: How we can help instill self-esteem

"With the prevalence of stigma, people with mental health issues need all the help they can get to raise their self-esteem and become confident members of the community," says writer Marja Bergen.

05 October, 2022
Video course helps churches talk about mental health

Oct. 2-8 is Mental Illness Awareness Week. Here's an advance look at a relevant article coming in our Nov/Dec issue.

03 October, 2022
How faith can help with mental illness

Marja Bergen, who lives with bipolar disorder, writes on the mysterious link between faith and mental health that brings healing

30 August, 2022
Faith and mental health

Markku Kostamo reflects on finding a sanctuary in the Church

29 January, 2021
Mental health medications and stigma

How would you respond if a doctor told you they are going to prescribe something to help you cope with your emotions or your racing or depressive thoughts?

24 January, 2021
Rethinking how Evangelicals view mental health

We need to revise our framework and develop a better theology of the person.

18 July, 2018
FT Interview: With Sharon Ramsay

Sharon Ramsay spoke with Faith Today about how we can all care for ourselves, and particularly spiritual leaders.

02 October, 2017
Be kind to those in your church living with mental illness and mental health challenges

I write as a person with lived experience, as a former pastor who has struggled with dark periods of depression, suicidal ideation and the misuse of alcohol. Mental health problems are generational in the Summerville ...