Light in the darkness? What the Church can offer someone suffering with depression
Apologist Joel Furches explores the relationship between Christianity and psychiatry, and asks why Christians suffer from depression when they are promised joy?
Few pastors in the modern world have as much name recognition as the leader of Saddleback Church in California, Rick Warren. Yet his ministry did not make the megachurch pastor immune from tragedy when he lost his son to suicide in 2013. Warren has since used his influence in the ministry world to raise awareness of mental health problems within the church.
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