A Quiet Mind to Suffer With, with John Bryant
What does the Gospel of Jesus Christ have to say to those who wrestle with mental illness? This month’s Lexham Press book of the month arrested Matt’s attention. It’s like Augustine’s Confessions in a contemporary idiom as a really profound searching exploration of one man’s personal experience of OCD and his identity in Christ. So, today Matt and Alastair talk to the author, John Andrew Bryant. You will better understand how to simply be with a person with mental illness in a way that is best for them. Links Mentioned: Lexham Press Book of the Month Merrie Band A Quiet…
What does the Gospel of Jesus Christ have to say to those who wrestle with mental illness? This month’s Lexham Press book of the month arrested Matt’s attention. It’s like Augustine’s Confessions in a contemporary idiom as a really profound searching exploration of one man’s personal experience of OCD and his identity in Christ. So, today Matt and Alastair talk to the author, John Andrew Bryant. You will better understand how to simply be with a person with mental illness in a way that is best for them.
Links Mentioned:
Lexham Press Book of the Month
A Quiet Mind to Suffer With: Mental Illness, Trauma, and the Death of Christ, by John Andrew Bryant
The Logic of the Body: Retrieving Theological Psychology, by Dr. Matthew LaPine
Matthew LaPine on Mere Fi
The Book of the Month for January 2024 is John Andrew Bryant’s A Quiet Mind to Suffer With: Mental Illness, Trauma, and the Death of Christ. In this volume, which Christianity Today selected as their 2024 Book Award Winner for Christian Living/Spiritual Formation, Bryant shares his own journey through severe OCD and shows how suffering has been made holy by Christ’s proximity to it. For the month of January 2024, get 40% off this award-winning title at lexhampress.com/merefidelity.
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