Exploring the intersection of Christian wisdom and modern psychology.Written by our counselors, grounded in Scripture and clinical practice.
Every serious Christian will face a season when prayer feels hollow and God seems distant. The mystics called it the dark night - and they said it was a gift.
Faith & Mental HealthHalf the Psalms are basically screaming at heaven. That's not doubt. That's the deepest kind of faith.
Faith & Mental HealthPretending is the opposite of faith. If your questions are honest, they are not threats to your relationship with God. They are the relationship.
Faith & Mental HealthShe was sitting in my office crying, and the thing that had brought her to tears was not the depression. It was the guilt about the depression. Her small group leader had told her she was not praying hard enough.
Faith & Mental HealthYour loved ones are not gone. They are not far. The Christian hope is not that death is the end of relationship - but that it is not.
Martin Luther discovered something that changed the world: you cannot earn what has already been freely given. So why do so many Christians still try?
Christian PsychologyThat knot in your stomach is not the Holy Spirit warning you. It is your nervous system stuck in threat mode. And there is a way out.
Christian PsychologyShame says you are the mistake. Grace says you are the beloved. The work of healing is learning which voice to trust.
Christian PsychologyWe've been reading this parable wrong. It's not about the wayward child. It's about what it costs a father to run toward someone who hurt him.
When the place that was supposed to be safe becomes the source of harm, the wound goes deeper than most people understand. Here's how to begin healing.
Healing & RecoveryNot every therapist who calls themselves Christian is equipped to help you. And not every secular therapist is hostile to faith. Here's what to look for.
Healing & RecoveryThe church culture that celebrates exhaustion as devotion is not following Jesus. It is following Pharaoh. And the difference matters.
We've reduced "your body is a temple" to a slogan about diet and purity. But Paul meant something far more radical - and far more healing.
Prayer & PracticeYou've tried harder. Prayed longer. Used different methods. And still - silence. Here's what a contemplative nun has learned about empty prayer.
Prayer & PracticeIn a culture that measures your worth by your productivity, the most countercultural thing you can do is stop.
Prayer & PracticeIn a world that rewards noise and speed, the Quakers discovered something radical: the most important conversations happen in the quiet.
Prayer & PracticeThe Desert Fathers were treating anxiety 1,700 years before we named it. Their method is remarkably similar to what neuroscience now recommends.
Prayer & PracticeAt least once a month, a well-meaning parishioner sends me an article warning that contemplative prayer is a gateway to New Age spirituality. The articles are historically illiterate and clinically harmful.
Cheap forgiveness glosses over harm. Biblical forgiveness requires truth-telling before reconciliation. Here's the difference - and why it matters.
Relationships & CommunityPersonal piety without communal responsibility is incomplete Christianity. But communal responsibility without personal transformation is just activism. Wesley held both.