“Does God Want Me Well?” is part of the Discovery Series Bible Study published by Discovery House Publishers in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 2002. I picked it up at a Christian bookshop, and it is now amazingly cheap on Amazon as I suspect it is out of print! Never mind, I’ll review it anyway as […]
Truthfulness About Myself
May 7, 2012 by 3 Comments
As a Christian I serve the one called The Truth, Jesus. As a human I too often fail to tell and see the truth about myself. As a person with a mental health problem I have trouble seeing truth from the lies told by illness about myself. I speak, now, from a position of wellness […]
Do you have “depression”?
May 6, 2012 by 4 Comments
What I’d like to write about here is, I think, an intense irritant to most mentally ill people. That is, the way people loosely use the term “depression” to refer to things that are not medical depression and get themselves all twisted up and end up stigmatising us. I am making it sound more simple […]
Psychiatric Hospital Chapels and Chaplains
May 4, 2012 by 3 Comments
On the radio today I heard a segment about a chapel in a mental hospital being changed to a multi-faith worship place. The link there has the headline as “Chaplain “horrified” by hospital church closure” which is actually incorrect as the article states that St Ann’s psychiatric hospital in Dorset is simply changing their chapel […]
The Protestant Work Ethic & Welfare Reform
April 27, 2012 by 1 Comment
Those of us in the UK are well aware of the coalition government’s desire to reform the welfare state. Those of us affected by disability are certainly aware of the push to remove as many as possible from benefits, with the many mistakes and miscarriages of justice that that involves. The mass media seems delighted […]
4Thought: Malcolm Bowden on Depression and Faith
April 25, 2012 by 2 Comments
Well, something of a storm developing over today’s 4thought! For those not in the know, 4thought is a short slot at the end of the Channel 4 news given over to discussions of faith, ethics, and similar and where a person is given that time to present one point of view. This week, 4thought has […]
Lord, Save Me!
April 20, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Excellent post from a Catholic perspective – check out the author’s blog!
Are We To Blame For Our Illnesses?
April 17, 2012 by Leave a Comment
This is a provocative subject (and title). I am a Christian, so when I think about this question, I am looking at more than simply a biological viewpoint. I take the Bible seriously, and I am concerned about what it has to say about illness. There seem to me to be four different causes of […]
Help Thou My Unbelief
April 10, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Lord, I want to love you, yet I’m not sure. I want to trust you, yet I’m afraid of being taken in. I know I need you, yet I’m ashamed of the need. I want to pray, yet I’m afraid of being a hypocrite. I need my independence, yet I fear to be alone. I […]
Can God Heal?
April 8, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Rather late-night post here but I saw an article in the Daily Mail that I couldn’t ignore! My hand was healed by God says Tory MP after advertising watchdog condemns leaflets claiming religion can cure Read more: Daily Mail Article This is the news that Gary Streeter, a Conservative MP has spoken out after the Advertising […]
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