(Tennessean) In his new book, a contemporary Christian music artist blasts stigma he feels some church communities put on mental illness.
“The topic had become taboo inside the church walls, and to admit to dealing with depression would bring judgment, ridicule, and shaming from the people who should have been helping them heal in the first place,” Jody McBrayer of Christian group Avalon (“Testify to Love”) writes in his memoir.
“Since I was a child, I’ve watched the church kick their wounded,” he writes in the book, “So Far, So Good (…But It Was Touch and Go There for a While).”