United Church of Christ Mental Health Network

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Loving Depression

July 8, 2019 by mhn-ucc Leave a Comment

As a social worker and as one who wrote a master’s thesis on mental health in the church, I’ve done a lot of reading and thinking about these topics.  I’ve preached sermons about mental health and healing, I’ve read articles about people who choose not to take medication for their mental health, and I’ve had […]

Filed Under: Depression, Love, Recovery, Stigma Tagged With: depression, doctor, Hannah Campbell Gustafon, happy pill, Love, marriage, medication, mental health, Mental Health Network, new medication, sermon, social worker, Trevor Noah, United Church of Christ

Not The Sermon I Meant
to Preach

July 1, 2019 by mhn-ucc Leave a Comment

I’d been asked to guest preach at a large, respectable church in town, the first time I’d received an invite to this congregation, and I didn’t want to mess it up. I’d worked with the lectionary texts, rich in narrative and imagery – Elijah in the wilderness, the man possessed by Legion – and thought […]

Filed Under: Mental Health, Stigma Tagged With: Anxiety, chaplain, College, David Finnegan-Hosey, Elijah, mental health, mental health struggles, preach, pulpit, sermon, Stigma

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