By Blake Oliver I was diagnosed with depression when I was in first grade. My parents got divorced when I was too young to understand what was happening. I don’t even remember it. My childhood brain dealt with the situation the way that childhood depression happens: it lashed out. I was an angry kid. Children […]
By Amanda V. Porter It’s not hyperbole to state that there is a widespread, sweeping, and indiscriminate mental health epidemic in our country. Mental illness is more pervasive than heart disease and more segregating than leprosy. Suicide is just one component of this very complex and knotty issue. Let’s look closer at this matter with […]
By Kim Wright Depression has such a stigma attached to it, especially within the body of the church. I am not a counselor or psychologist. What I am is one who has dealt with depression from two points of view—the depressed and the parent of one struggling. I have gone to counseling and been treated […]
By Cleo Lampos A breeze tinged with spring crispness and the scent of overturned dirt drifted into the room. Ron and I both inhaled the fragrance. After a winter of tutoring this 9-year-old through math problems and reading passages, we both exhaled the frustrations he encountered with Tourette’s syndrome: facial tics, hand jerks, and eye […]
By Javan Rowe We often think of our walk with the Lord solely in spiritual terms, with no regard for our physical bodies. At first glance, the Bible appears to confirm this with verses like John 4:23: “Worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth,” with no mention of the body. Or […]
