Rico Villanueva, Langham Partnership’s regional commissioning editor for Asia, shares how studying the psalms of lament have helped him with his bouts of depression 

I come from the Philippines, a country in the western Pacific Ocean, which is made up of more than 7,000 islands. My nation was colonised by the Spanish for more than 300 years. It is why I have a Spanish name, and why over 85 per cent of the population are Roman Catholic. However, identifying as a Christian is not the same as accepting Jesus in your heart.

On the outside, many Filipinos behave like Catholics: they go to Mass and Confession, they count their rosary beads and they pray to Mary, but on the inside, some still do not know Jesus. Termed “split-level Christianity” by Jesuit priest Jaime Bulatao, this co-existence of conflicting… (Register to read the rest of the article)