Many Christians preach that depression is a spiritual problem and that its solution is increased Bible reading and prayer. Dr. Wagemaker argues that depression is a brain disease; it is biological and physical, and it can be treated with medication.

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Bellis, Peter Damian

Wagemaker, Herbert

Mental Health

Zondervan

Review Peter Bellis' One Last Dance With Lawrence Welk And Other Stories is a surreal world of characters in stories where anything can happen. A young boy from Minnesota brings two ghosts together through music, a wealthy gadabout recalls the night of his death, an ancient miracle man travels the country roads of Florida in search of customers for his Blue Elixir of The Nile. Bellis is gifted storyteller with a mastery of the short story format and and a knack for engaging the reader's "sense of wonder". -- Midwest Book Review

One Last Dance With Lawrence Welk & Other Stories: And Other Stories

Literature & Fiction

Bookmen

Gods Among Gazelles focuses on the brutality that is occurring in the Congo as we speak and yet is also anchored in the spirituality of the people living there. The novel is set in the Congo (mythic Congo, historical Congo, and contemporary Congo) and reflects a magical realist perspective embedded in an existential reality. It is also a blend of narrative styles and a commentary on the nature of narrative itself. It is mythic, surreal, abounds in nihilist imagery fused to Christian philosophy, and above all, it is everything African.¿

Gods Among Gazelles

Literary

River Boat Books

The Conjure Man is a magical realist novel in so far as the events of the novel move with a dream-like quality that exposes layer after layer of an ever-shifting reality. In this respect it is similar to the novels of Gabriel García Márquez. But the texture of the novel is Southern Gothic, more reminiscent of William Faulkner. Finally, it is also a coming of age story that mirrors Mark Twain's Huck Finn.The story: After Thaddeus Jacobs, the adopted son of a traveling preacher, is found naked with a young woman, he is expelled from the only family he has ever known. Guided by visions and a mysterious voice, he makes his way to a coastal South Carolina island, where he struggles to make his peace with God and himself in spite of his own strange cravings and the superstitious hatred of the islanders, who think he is the devil. The price of his inner peace, however, is absolute isolation, and it is only when he meets Kilby, a thirteen-year-old boy, that he rediscovers what it means to be human. Part myth, part fable, part satire, and part coming-of-age story, The Conjure Man plumbs the emotional depths of the human psyche in prose both dreamlike in the images it conjures and intensely vivid in the psychology it reveals. Told from the alternating viewpoints of Kilby and Thaddeus, it depicts a world where magic does exist, and miracles are possible.

The Conjure Man

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The Surprising Truth About Depression: Medical Breakthroughs That Can Work for You

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Gods Among Gazelles

The Conjure Man