Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 11101 Should Christians take medication, particularly the sort that works on the mind? I get asked this quietly, often after a service, usually by someone who has already been taking it for months and has never told anyone at church. The secrecy tells you everything about how badly we have handled this subject. My…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 11097 The phrase alternative medicine covers such an enormous range of things that treating it as one subject is the first mistake most of us make. It stretches from a cup of peppermint tea for indigestion all the way to practices that involve summoning spirit guides, and lumping those together produces either needless panic…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 11096 Should Christians use doctors, or does going to the surgery show a shortage of faith? I have been asked this more often than you might expect, usually in a low voice by someone who has been told by a well-meaning friend that real believers trust God rather than the NHS. The question deserves…