Spirit and Mental Illness by Craig Rennebohm




written by Craig Rennebohm

After 53 years of living with depression and a ministry increasingly focused on the intersection of religious life and mental illness, I share these thoughts about our biological, psychological, social and spiritual wholeness.

Our bodies and brains serve not only a myriad of worldly functions, but are a �sensorium for the Spirit.� Literally every occasion of our

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