Show notes
Today Sarah Griffith Lund returns to Encountering Silence. She is the senior pastor of First Congregational United Church of Christ in Indianapolis, and serves the United Church of Christ on a national level as the Minister for Disabilities and Mental Health Justice. She holds degrees from Trinity University, Princeton Theological Seminary, Rutgers University and McCormick Theological Seminary.
Sarah Griffith Lund received the Bob and Joyce Dell Award for Mental Health Education from the United Church of Christ Mental Health Network in 2015 for “her outstanding authorship and leadership in breaking the silence about mental illness in family and in church and offering healing and hope.”
Her latest book is Blessed Union: Breaking the Silence About Mental Illness and Marriage. She is also the author of Blessed Are the Crazy: Breaking the Silence about Mental Illness, Family and Church. She also maintains a blog at www.sarahgriffithlund.com.
The biggest barrier to receiving treatment, care and support is not money, it's not access to quality health care... it's the stigma and shame associated with mental health challenges. — Sarah Griffith Lund
Some of the resources and authors we mention in this episode:
- Sarah Griffith Lund, Blessed Are the Crazy: Breaking the Silence about Mental Illness, Family and Church
- Sarah Griffith Lund, Blessed Union: Breaking the Silence About Mental Illness and Marriage
- Nancy L. Eisland, The Disabled God: Toward a Liberatory Theology of Disability
Episode 127: Silence, Marriage and Mental Heath: A Conversation with Sarah Griffith Lund (Part Two)
Hosted by: Carl McColman
With: Cassidy Hall and Kevin Johnson
Guest: Sarah Griffith Lund
Date Recorded: January 11, 2021
Hosted by: Carl McColman
With: Cassidy Hall and Kevin Johnson
Guest: Sarah Griffith Lund
Date Recorded: January 11, 2021
