Broken Minds: Hope for Healing When You Feel Like You’re Losing It, Steve and Robyn Bloem.
This review examines Steve and Robyn Bloem's book on depression and mental illness in the church, highlighting the authors' critique of how Reformed congregations have often stigmatized mental health struggles as purely spiritual failures rather than recognizing them as legitimate diseases requiring compassion and sometimes medical intervention. The resource emphasizes the importance of pastoral care that listens and weeps with the suffering rather than offering judgmental platitudes, challenging readers to reconsider how their churches minister to those battling depression and other mental illnesses.
Broken Minds: Hope for Healing When You Feel Like You're Losing It, Steve and Robyn Bloem. Kregel Publications: Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2005. Paperback, pp. 301. [Reviewed by Rev. Martyn McGeown.] How do people -- especially church people -- react to depression? The Bloems, both of whom have suffered from clinical depression, argue that the church has failed to minister properly to the mentally ill. One of the main reasons for this is the church's refusal to view depression and other mental...
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