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Learning to help

This is a question I get a lot. Often from wives, fellow pastors, circuit counselors, even an occasional district president. What do you do with someone who suffers from depression? It sounds like...



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Why Antidepressants Are No Better Than Placebos – Newsweek.com

I am just now starting to digest this article. Anyone read it yet? What are your thoughts?
Why Antidepressants Are No Better Than Placebos – Newsweek.com: ""
(Via Ken Kelly.)



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Checking out NAMI, MHM and how they view faith

I recently had an episcopal priest recommend NAMI and Mental Health Ministries to me, and specifically to look into the following document they have available:
Mental Illness and Families of Faith:...



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Melancholy is the devil's bath

Melancholia balneum diaboli
I have been doing a peer review of a fantastic book by a 17th century theologian named Herberger. I pray that this volume will be published by CPH or someone else within...



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His name is Emannuel

This has been a more eventful Advent and Christmastide than usual in the Peperkorn household. As you may have heard, we were (surprised and) overjoyed at the end of October to discover that Kathryn...



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Advent: The Most Lutheran of Seasons

Lutherans are often portrayed as being a "Lent" sort of people. Somber, slow chorales. A generally dark disposition. Anyone who looks too cheerful and happy must be a charismatic or...



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Another Pastor's Suicide Sparks Conversation

Recently there was an article in USA Today about a pastor in the Carolinas who committed suicide. Here's the article. I would urge you to go and read the entire article, but here is an...



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On Confessing Your Illness

I recently had a conversation with someone that centered around the question of what to confess if you suffer from depression or other mental illnesses. So many of the symptoms which we face that...



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On the Ministry: Tasks Verses Relationships

One doesn't have to serve as a pastor for very long to come to the realization that the Holy Ministry in America is in more than a little bit of crisis. Some of the competing models for the...



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Getting it outside your head

I have been thinking and working a lot with productivity lately. One of the aspects of this learning process for me has been the benefits of externalization.
What I mean is this: I by nature keep...



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