Dr. Syed Arshad Husain is professor of psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine. Husain wrote a chapter on religion and mental health from the Muslim perspective for the Handbook of Religion and Mental Health.

The Rev. Kelly Brill is senior minister at Avon Lake United Church of Christ in Avon Lake, Ohio. In 2012, after officiating the previous summer at funerals for five people who had killed themselves, Brill worked with the local chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness to offer a free series of classes for friends and […]

Distinguished Visiting Professor of Pastoral Care at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities. Albers co-edited Ministry With Persons With Mental Illness and Their Families (2012).

Jimmy Tilley and his wife, Jane, started a Sunday school class and worship time for mentally ill people at their church, First Baptist of Tuscaloosa, Ala. Jimmy, the group leader, suffers from depression, chronic anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Contact through the church.

A blogger in Memphis, Tenn. Her essay “Should Christians Take Antidepressants?” appeared on a Christianity Today blog in November 2011.

Jim Hightower is minister of pastoral care at First Baptist Church in Huntsville, Ala. Twice a year, the church offers a 12-week education program for families of the mentally ill.

Professor emeritus of psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center and professor of pastoral counseling at Carolina Evangelical Divinity School. Wilson wrote the chapter on religion and psychoses for the Handbook of Religion and Mental Health. Contact through the Institute of Christian Growth, which he directs.

Matt Rogers is a former co-pastor of New Life Christian Fellowship at Virginia Tech and is the author of Losing God: Clinging to Faith Through Doubt and Depression. He now lives in Charlotte, N.C. Contact through his website.

Brant Rosen is rabbi of Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation in Evanston, Ill. The congregation rebuilt its building to make it sustainable and moved back into it in February 2008.