Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 11100 Mental illness is one of the areas where the church has too often made things worse, and I say that as a pastor who has watched it happen. A believer with depression or an anxiety disorder is told to pray harder, to confess the hidden sin, or to stop being so introspective, and…
Reading Time: 10 minutesQuestion 11070. Depression and sin have been tangled together in Christian thinking for a very long time, and a great deal of harm has followed. I have sat with believers who were told that their illness was evidence of unrepented sin, and I have watched what that does to a person who is already at…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 4185. I want to write about the Spirit in depression with great care, because this is a subject where careless words from a pulpit have wounded many sincere believers. Depression is not the same as ordinary sadness that lifts after a good night’s sleep. It is a heavy, often prolonged darkness of mind and…