Read part 1 Christians who try to help a friend with mental illness need to remember how Job’s friends treated him and learn from that story. In his introduction to the book of Job in The Message, Eugene Peterson wrote, “The moment we find ourselves in trouble of any kind sick in the hospital, bereaved […]
Mental Illness: How Can Congregations Respond? Part 1
A friend emailed me about an acquaintance who had been newly diagnosed with bipolar illness. Bill had struggled and suffered a lot in the previous years with undiagnosed severe depression. Although the bipolar diagnosis was hard to live with he realized that he needed to accept it and learn to manage it. Writes my friend […]