John Toews - No Longer Alone: Mental Health and the Church
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John Toews with Eleanor Loewen draw on their expertise in mental health to address such topics as the interrelatedness of our social, emotional, physical, and spiritual selves; emotions that hurt or heal; depression; addictions; schizophrenia; and suicide. Paperback, 176 pages.
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Mental health--Religious aspects--Christianity, Church work with the mentally ill.
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1995
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BT732.4.T64 1995eb
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261.8/322
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Mental health--Religious aspects--Christianity, Church work with the mentally ill.
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No Longer Alone
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Mental Health & Disabilities Program Mennonite Central Committee Canada 134 Plaza Drive Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 5K9
phone: 204 261-6381 fax: 204 269-9875
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No Longer Alone
Mental Health and the Church
John Toews with Eleanor Loewen
Foreword by John and Naomi Lederach
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Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data Toews, John No longer alone Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-8361-9010-6 1. Church work with the mentally ill. 2. Mental health Religious aspects Christianity. 1. Loewen, Eleanor, 1938 . II. Title. BV4461.T64 1995 259'.4 C95-930298-0
The paper used in this publication is recycled and meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.
All Bible quotations are used by permission, all rights reserved, and are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA.
NO LONGER ALONE
Copyright 1995 by Herald Press, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 6H7 Published simultaneously in the United States by Herald Press, Scottdale, Pa. 15683. All rights reserved Library of Congress Catalog Number: 94-73616 International Standard Book Number: 0-8361-9010-6 Printed in the United States of America Book and cover design by Gwen M. Stamm
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To all the people who have wanted to be accepted as a regular part of the church and to make their contributions as best they could under the very trying circumstances of mental ill health.
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Contents
Foreword
by John and Naomi Lederach
9
Preface
by Travis Reimer
12
Introduction
15
1. What Is Mental Health?
23
2. Mental Health and Life Stages
36
3. Who Sinned?
50
4. The Need for Healing
64
5. Emotions That HurtEmotions That Heal
78
6. Who of You by Worrying Can Add a Single Hour to Your Life?
93
7. My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?
107
8. No Other Gods
122
9. Shattered Dreams
138
10. Whatever You Do...
155
The Authors
172
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Foreword
Over the years, as we have had conversations with colleagues and friends, we've often said, "Someone should write a book about this." We were referring to a guide or framework for understanding ourselves and those of us and our families and acquaintances who experience mental ill health. With great expertise and sensitivity, Dr. Toews (assisted by Eleanor Loewen) has written just such a book, full of careful, simple, yet profound truths. The book addresses in a straightforward way such common questions as, Who am I? What do I believe about my relationship with God, about my faith (or lack of it)? How does my faith affect the problems I face?
To encourage us when we were experiencing a particularly difficult time, Aunt Gladys once said, "Life is what happens to you when you have other plans." We areor see or walk withthose who had other plans but whose lives are broken and difficult for a variety of reasons. As a community of faith, called or to healing in our relationships, we have too often contributed to or perhaps even perpetuated (unknowingly?) the hurt of others, rather than their healing. No Longer Alone opens windows
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and ways to become wiser in our own journeys and as we walk with others.
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