Mike Cosper attempts to write a sensitive and nuanced reflection on depression and suicide, prompted by the death of chef and food/travel documentary make Anthony Bourdain. This is what’s monstrous about depression. It is not simply a bad day or even a bad few months. It is a haunting presence, a grayness that covers all …

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This is an article by Brad Hambrick, published by the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. These ten types of thinking are described as fuelling the depressive-anxious experience. From personal experience they certainly resonate. It would be helpful to understand that this is not a matter of identifying these in others …

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A reflective article about life with chronic illness and trust in God by Stephanie Phillips. An excerpt: I had the thought the other day: what if I never change? I don’t remember what I was doing: making yet another dinner, folding some more laundry, mediating another child-fight, battling another impulse to emit a primal scream. …

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