by Monica A. Coleman | Sep 29, 2016 | Blog, Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, and every September I hear that suicide is the unforgivable sin. As a minister and theologian, I understand the rationale. It goes something like this: Sin is doing something that offends God. It is the pride of trying...
by Monica A. Coleman | Sep 21, 2014 | Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
I continue to blog for the New Media Project where we help religious leaders become theologically savvy about technology. For the series on community formation and social media, I write about a recent loss, and turn to online communities for support. Here is an...
by Monica A. Coleman | Jul 27, 2014 | Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
This Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, I’m interviewing Wizdom Powell Hammond, Assistant Professor of Health Behavior, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I met Wizdom Powell years ago at a conference. We...
by Monica A. Coleman | Jul 8, 2014 | Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
Most churches could do a lot more to support people who live with mental illnesses. Many Christian teachings link health, wealth and faith in ways that can make anyone having a bad day feel like God has abandoned them. This feels all the more injurious to someone...
by Monica A. Coleman | May 22, 2014 | Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
As I came to accept that depression would be a part of life, I started to read about strategies for living successfully with depression. I connected with various advocacy organizations like the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), Depression Bipolar Support...
by Monica A. Coleman | Feb 26, 2014 | Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
“Are your prayers different? Now that you’ve been healed,” my partner asked me one morning. “What?” I really didn’t know what he was talking about. He explained: “I mean, you were depressed. But since our daughter’s birth, you haven’t been. No meds. No sadness. ...