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Troubled minds : mental illness and the church's mission / Amy Simpson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Simpson, Amy, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Church work with the mentally ill.
- Mental illness--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Mental illness.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (221 pages) : portrait
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Downers Grove, Illinois : InterVarsityPress, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 as well as minds that are troubled. -- Publisher.
- Contents:
- Foreword / Marshall Shelley
- A family story
- Mental illness is mainstream
- Suffering people
- Coping
- Church life
- Ministry life
- Persistent stigma
- What churches can do
- What God does
- Resources for ministry to people affected by mental illness.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-221).
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780830884322
- 0830884327
- OCLC:
- 857224131
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