The Importance of Human Floridity

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Believers believe in an event is death, this resurrection that changed everything. And we also believe that in the resurrection of Jesus, that God isn't the business of renewing everything. We understand a great deal of things through the lens of pathology. But when people are coming to us, they're not just coming to name their problems, they're also coming hoping to God that life can be better than where it is. It's certainly like make happen.

Scholars, journalists, practitioners, and other thought leaders all agree — we’re facing a loneliness epidemic that’s as grave a threat to public health as obesity or substance abuse. Where do we go from here?

In this Forum from 2019 at the University of Minnesota, psychiatrist Curt Thompson discusses human flourishing and community. When it comes to mental health, he says, don’t go it alone.

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