by William Edge | Apr 13, 2024 | Emotional Health, The Church and Mental Illness
Last week, I wrote about Jonathan Haidt’s new book, The Anxious Generation. This week, Dr. Mathilde Ross, a senior staff psychiatrist at Boston University, wrote an Op-ed in the New York Times about the anxious parents she deals with. Clearly, many young people...
by William Edge | Apr 6, 2024 | Emotional Health, The Church and Mental Illness
I heard an interview recently with Jonathan Haidt about kids. Two main thoughts struck me. The first: beginning in the 1990s, American parents became diligent about hovering over their kids to make sure they were not taken away by a predator or meeting some other...
by William Edge | Mar 29, 2024 | The Church and Culture
Sunday is Easter, and I have been thinking lately about one of the great passages regarding the resurrection. It is Hebrews 11. Now stay with me. Hebrews 11 reflects upon how Abraham honored God multiple times. Part of that focus is Abraham’s willingness to...
by William Edge | Mar 22, 2024 | The Church and Culture
I have found that in my lifetime, the most crucial factor determining people’s behavior is how they feel. I’m not saying I am glad about that, but that is what I have observed. This explains what is happening today in our political process. Many of our...
by William Edge | Mar 2, 2024 | The Church and Culture
God needs people. God needs people with strong hearts and backbones. God needs people with strong hearts and backbones to stand up for him. C. S. Lewis once wrote, “In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without...
