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Troubled Minds: Mental Illness and the Church’s Mission

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The 2014 Christianity Today Book Award Winner (Her.meneutics) Winner of a 2013 Leadership Journal Book Award (“Our Very Short List” in “The Leader’s Outer Life” category) Mental illness is this sort of thing we do not like to speak about. It doesn’t reduce nicely to simple solutions and happy outcomes. So instead, too frequently we reduce people who find themselves mentally ill to caricatures and ghosts, and simply pretend they don’t exist. They do exist, then again―statistics suggest that one in four people suffer from some kind of mental illness. And then there’s their friends and members of the family, who bear their own scars and anxious thoughts, and who see no protected place to speak about the affect of mental illness on their lives and their loved ones. Many of these people are sitting in churches week after week, suffering in stigmatized silence. In Troubled Minds Amy Simpson, whose family knows the trauma and bewilderment of mental illness, reminds us that people with mental illness are our neighbors and our brothers and sisters in Christ, and she shows us the path to loving them well and becoming a church that loves God with whole hearts and whole souls, with the strength we have and with minds that are whole in addition to minds that are troubled.

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