
What We’re Thinking About
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Every week, we publish articles written by our counselors on various mental health, spiritual formation, or overall wellness topics.
Christianity and Stigma Around Mental Health
In generations past, there has been a negative stigma around mental health. This has drawn many people away from seeking help for a variety of issues.
Don’t Cry Because It’s Over, Smile Because It Happened
CCCRD presents an article by our founder and friend Dr. Frank Mancuso. Dr. Mancuso passed away on May 30, 2022, and this article was read at his funeral as a reflection of his life and work.
To the Church: The Ministry of Division, or Reconciliation?
Scripture shows early Christians living in community. Today’s American church is instead seeing increased segregation, polarization, and theological echo chambers. What can we do?
What Does the Bible Say About Mental Health?
We are in a time when mental health is rightly becoming a focus of many people around the world. As a believer, it is important to look at this part of health from a biblical standpoint.
God and Suffering (Pt. 3): One Counselor’s Perspective
Finishing his series on God and suffering, Peter Ruffini, LPC looks at five ways God can redeem suffering for good.
The First Trauma Story: Adam & Eve
Kim continues her series on understanding trauma as she looks at how it affects the brain as well as the story of Adam and Eve through a trauma lens.
God and Suffering (Pt. 2): One Counselor’s Perspective
Continuing his series on God and suffering, Peter Ruffini, LPC builds our understanding of how God views suffering and how he views us as we experience it.
The Practice of Gratitude in the Small
The business of life can draw us away from quiet moments. Yet it is in these moments that we can find God and gratitude in the small.
God and Suffering (Pt. 1): One Counselor’s Perspective
In the first part of his series on understanding God and suffering, Peter Ruffini, LPC examines his own experience of suffering and forms a theological framework for the topic.
Sewing Fig Leaves
No matter where our shame stems from, our response is often the same as Adam and Eve’s: we hide and we work hard to cover ourselves up.
Christmas, Immanuel, and How Existence Might Be Ok After All
In a weary world filled with suffering, the Christmas story offers hope, love, and a sense of a new and good thing in Immanuel: “God with us.”
Womanhood: Living the Single Life
As women, we all have seasonal changes. In the singleness season of young adulthood, there is much to learn among all of the excitement and transition.
“As Devoted Children”
Paul says that we are to “be imitators of God, as beloved children.” I’ve read this verse a number of times and skipped over the significance of the wording.