The church's relationship with depression has been fraught: for centuries, depression was assumed to be evidence of personal sin or even demonic influence.
"Diana Gruver has written a compelling book. In it she tells the stories of seven historical figures, some but not all household names, who suffered severe depression. Gruver does it just right, avoiding the many pitfalls that could have made the book excessively sentimental or judgmental. She lets the individuals describe their own experiences, refusing to subject them to modern clinical diagnosi
Gerald L. Sittser, professor of theology at Whitworth University and author of A Grace Dis
