Mental Health

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Gen Z Is More Than Just Anxious

What the church gets wrong—and what it can get right—about forming a generation shaped by screens and longing for purpose.

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It Is Never Good to Be Alone

In an anxious age, pastoral health requires more than better systems. It requires being known.

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The Necessity of the Trauma-Informed Pastor

Spiritual leadership requires us to know the stories of our people.

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Reclaiming the Church’s Role in Mental Health

We have a holy opportunity to return to our roots—a chance to recover the kind of care that once marked every aspect of the early church.

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Come Ye Pastors, Heavy Laden

Learning to walk under the weight of ministry’s many hats.

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Forget Charisma. Look for the Weak and the Slow.

Pete Scazzero discusses how pastors can identify and train healthy leaders.

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Changing Minds Is Not Our Job

We cannot control our people, and attempting to do so will only do damage.

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Pastors Get to Set Boundaries Too

Strategies for bringing healthy rhythms into a dysfunctional church culture.

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My Experience as a Trauma Chaplain Helped Me Fight Anxiety

Identifying our fears can better help us pastor ourselves and others better.

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When Pastors Are Sexual Abuse Survivors

Childhood trauma can sabotage ministry in sinister ways.

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How Can So Many Pastors Be Godly and Dysfunctional at the Same Time?

Illuminating the blind spots in most approaches to spiritual formation.

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What Should Pastors Know About Generation Z?

Five experts discuss the ways this emerging demographic is helping them rethink preaching, parenting, and service.

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CT Pastors’ Top 17 Articles of 2017

This year’s best practical solutions and stories of ministry failure, temptation, and encouragement.

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Is Your Church Healthy for People with Mental Illness?

3 ways your congregation can embrace those with mental disorders.

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How Churches Can Partner with Outside Counselors

It’s about supplementing, not replacing, pastoral care.

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How I Leverage My Autism for Pastoral Ministry

My life-changing diagnosis forced me to learn myself—and my ministry role—all over again.

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The Road to Emotional Health

How transforming your unhealthy interior transforms your leadership.

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Top 10 Resources for Mental Health Ministry

Books, websites, organizations, and people who can help you help those with mental illness and their families.

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Sacrificing the Body

Too many pastors are neglecting their physical health—and it’s killing them.

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