Christopher C.H. Cook

Faith and Major Mental Illness

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“Marcia Murphy provides an honest and engaging account of what it is like to struggle with a major mental illness as a Christian. Describing herself as ‘radical and simple-minded,’ she is at times provocative and controversial, but in this she also seeks to live out her faith with courage and compassion. Murphy provides some revealing reflections on how faith and illness exist in complex interrelationship in the daily realities of human life.”

Finding Jesus in the Storm

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“John Swinton has listened well to Christians who have struggled with the unrelenting storms of severe mental health challenges. He has heard them tell of their experiences of the presence of God, and of the seeming absence of God, and of faith that grapples with the tensions between the two. Finding Jesus in the Storm provides a ‘thick’ description of Christian experiences of depression, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder. Drawing on the author’s experiences as mental health nurse, minister, and practical theologian, these accounts are engaged in conversation with both professional and Christian perspectives, scanning the horizons of mental health care, Christian Scripture, tradition, and church life. This book provides a unique, and hard won, account of journeys through deeply troubled waters. It is essential reading for all who are dissatisfied with superficial and second-hand Christian accounts of mental illness.”

Living More Human(e)ly?

Marriage, Family & Relationships

“Rebecca Leong has brought together historical, sociological, and psychological perspectives, as well as her own interviews of happily married couples, in search of the foundations for a happy, flourishing, lifelong marriage. Is it true that ‘you always marry the wrong person’?! What about compatibility? Always realistic about the complexities, Leong concludes that couples need the virtues of prudence, justice, courage, fortitude, temperance, and love, as well as time and effort. Engaging, thoughtful, and well worth reading!”

Mental Health Ministry for Churches

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“Mental health is a much-neglected core concern of the Christian gospel. This book provides a grounded, practical, and multifaceted response to mental health challenges, based on personal experience of living with mental illness, and drawing on lessons learned in a project successfully sustained in one church and community over many years.”

Now You Can Stop Running

Christian Living

“Many of us have been habituated into a life of self-protection as a response to adversity. In other words, we learned to run away. But running from pain doesn’t lead to transformation. In this latest offering, my friend Terry Crist gives us a durable path to healing and resilience. As you read, may your heart be reindexed toward wholeness.”

Titus Coan

History & Biography

“A long-overdue comprehensive biography of American missionary Titus Coan, who in East Hawaii Island in the late 1830s gathered the largest congregation in the Protestant world of his day. Through exhaustive research, Corr presents a multifaceted look at the complex character of Coan as the revivalist; the man, husband, and father; the pioneering volcanologist; and surprisingly, the peace advocate.”

Vast as the Sea

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Vast as the Sea provides a navigational chart for the ocean of human emotional well-being, carefully mapped out with the aid of Hebrew poetry and taking frequent bearings from contemporary psychology. Samuel Hildebrandt does not shy away from the challenges that this task presents. He explores anxiety amidst chaos and combat, plotting a course to calmer waters; loneliness as a place that can lead to creativity; hope in the wake of trauma and despair; the plight of theology amidst shattered assumptions; the tyranny of time; and the quest for wisdom amidst seeming meaninglessness. This beautifully written book should be of interest to all who wish to explore what the Bible has to teach about mental health and well-being.”