Barbara C. Crafton
Barbara C. Crafton is an Episcopal priest in Metuchen, N.J., and the author of Jesus Wept: When Faith & Depression Meet. She manages an online mental health site called The Geranium Farm.
Barbara C. Crafton is an Episcopal priest in Metuchen, N.J., and the author of Jesus Wept: When Faith & Depression Meet. She manages an online mental health site called The Geranium Farm.
Kathryn Greene-McCreight is a research associate at Yale Divinity School and the author of Darkness Is My Only Companion: A Christian Response to Mental Illness. Contact through Baker Publishing Group.
Matthew Stanford is CEO of the Hope and Healing Center and Institute in Houston and an expert on mental illness and the church. He is the author of Grace for the Afflicted: A Clinical and Biblical Perspective on Mental Illness. He has studied how seminaries prepare students to address mental illness within faith communities.
Frank Page is a former president of the Southern Baptist Convention. His adult daughter Melissa killed herself in 2009, and his book Melissa: A Father’s Lessons From a Daughter’s Suicide examines the biblical truths that have sustained him since the tragedy. Contact through Roger S. “Sing” Oldham, vice president for convention relations.
Nancy Kehoe is a psychologist and a Catholic nun in Belmont, Mass. She is the author of Wrestling With Our Inner Angels: Faith, Mental Illness and the Journey to Wholeness.
James Davies is a senior lecturer in social anthropology and psychotherapy at Roehampton University in London and a psychotherapist. He wrote an article in the winter/spring 2011 edition of the Harvard Divinity Bulletin, “The Rationalization of Suffering,” about the role of suffering and faith in therapy.
The website of Mental Health Ministries posts links to mental health resources offered by a variety of faith groups.
The NAMI posts links to faith-based organizations that deal with mental illness.
The American Association of Christian Counselors has more than 50,000 members and is the principal professional association of Christian counselors.