My book has a cover! And a release date!

You can preorder it here: Resisting Therapy Culture: The Dangers of Pop Psychology and How the Church Can Respond

I am really excited to get this book out into the world. If you want to learn more about why I wrote the book and what it’s about, you can read this PDF that InterVarsity Press and I put together.

In short, it’s about how therapy-speak is showing up everywhere and how it makes people sicker. It’s about how churches are feeling pressured to do for people what therapy and psychiatry ought to do for them. It’s about the mission of the Church and how churches can be places of healing for people by not trying to imitate therapy culture. It lays out principles for how to think about mental health, agency, and the responsibilities of individual churches that are timeless while also digging into the most up-to-date scientific data about trauma, attachment, and addiction. It’s meant to be a resource for pastors, teachers, parents, therapists, and counselors who are helping suffering people, but I hope and pray that it will also be an encouragement to people living with mental illness as well.

I’ll be doing a lot of podcasts, essays, and other stuff leading up to the release date on August 18th, so there’s more to come!