by William Edge | Jun 7, 2024 | The Church and Mental Illness
I am reading The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt. It is an excellent book, and I would highly recommend it. The main point of his book is that we have observed two parental trends in...
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 | Feb 24, 2024 | The Church and Mental Illness
The consensus these days is that the world is in a bad place. This is not the first time, nor will it be the last, unless Jesus returns before then. Lately, I have been tracking eras of upheaval and have arrived at a new hypothesis. It seems that more people than...
by William Edge | Dec 2, 2023 | The Church and Mental Illness
Now stand in the place where you workNow face westThink about the place where you liveWonder why you haven’t before–R.E.M. Leadership guru and family therapist Edwin Friedman wrote a fable about a row of dominoes arranged in a long line. The dominoes stand...
by William Edge | Nov 4, 2023 | The Church and Mental Illness
America is mentally ill. I hate using that term. I prefer saying America is suffering from a brain illness. The term “mental illness” has assumed the status of stigma. Yet, my previous statement is literally true. One year before COVID-19 appeared on the scene, the...
