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Many thanks to Mark Brown of Brownblog.com who is taking the topic of mental illness very seriously in his ministry to help the church be the anchor so many people need. He linked to my “8 Ways Faith Can Heal” recently, and his introduction was very intriguing. He writes: After completing my theology degree I…

In April, blogger John McManamy posed this question to his readers: “How important is faith and spirituality in your recovery?” And he shared the results in a recent blog post that you can get to by clicking here. John writes: Notwithstanding all the choices in our recovery we have [stress reduction techniques, mindfulness exercises, methods…

What’s the difference between a dark night of the soul, as understood by the Spanish Carmelite mystic, St. John of the Cross, and clinical depression? It is a topic that has intrigued me for over 15 years because my senior thesis as a religious studies major at St. Mary’s College was on St. John’s poem,…

From A HELL OF MERCY by Tim Farrington. Copyright C 2009 by Tim Farrington. Reprinted by permission of HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Doubt as to whether you are in a dark night or “just depressed” is probably a very good sign; it means you’re alive and paying attention and that life has you…
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