EASTER is a time of new beginnings. It is the answer, the pastor Rick Warren remarks, to loss and despair. A few weeks ago, one year after his son took his life while struggling with depression, Mr. Warren, the founding pastor of Saddleback Church, one of the nation’s largest evangelical churches, teamed up with his local Roman Catholic Diocese and the National Alliance on Mental Illness for an event that announced a new initiative to involve the church in the care of serious mental illness.
Their goal is not only to reduce stigma for people with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression and the like, though that is an important part of it. “We are all broken,” Mr. Warren said in his remarks — a phrase Christians often use to describe the many imperfections of the human world. “We’re all a little bit mentally ill.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/19/opinion/luhrmann-saving-minds-along-with-souls.html?ref=tmluhrmann
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