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 | Oct 6, 2023 | Emotional Health
The 1890s was the most prosperous decade the U.S. had seen up until then. Yes, there was an economic depression during that era that made times hard for a lot of people, but it did not last as long as others had, and it was the exception in a decade of economic...
by William Edge | Sep 28, 2023 | Emotional Health
Did Jesus experience emotions? Consider Luke 22:44: “And being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.” I would say that was a pretty emotional experience. Scripture teaches us that our God is a God who feels...
