Articles for Outreach & Missions
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.
Articles for Outreach & Missions
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.
Christian News
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.
Christian News
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.
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.
Articles for Pastors
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.
Christian News
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.
Articles for Outreach & Missions
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?”