The Christian Century

Two new books provide a devastating vision of America’s mental health crisis.

Molly McCully Brown recovers the lives of women at an institution notorious for its eugenics program.

I relate to physical sickness more easily than mental illness. So does our culture.

Grant Wacker recommends the best recently published books in his field.

You can never fully know your child’s interior life. You cannot know the measure of sadness or rage that may be unfolding within them.

Dennis Covington is famous for seeking faith in extreme places. Twenty years ago it was the snake-handling, poison-drinking Christians of southern Appa­lachia.