Kathleen ‘Katie’ Marie Shoener, 29, fought bipolar disorder since 2005, but she lost her last battle to mental illness eleven years later. (more…)
Bob JonesFebruary 25, 2023
Rightly so, my mum took me to a psychologist. It was there, with my aunt, step-dad and mum in the room that the truth came out - my Dad had committed suicide. (more…)
Bob JonesJuly 19, 2022
I thought back to when I thought I was the only one, the only Christian who struggled. The scars of all these long years of pain are good reminders to think again. (more…)
Bob JonesFebruary 7, 2022
Today I went to a tattoo artist, and for $60 I let a man with a giant Jesus-tattoo on his head ink a semi-colon onto my wrist where it will stay until the day I die. Heather Parrie (more…)
Bob JonesJuly 4, 2020
Rick and Kay Warren were devastated when their 27-year old son Matthew committed suicide in April 2013. Their grief was unimaginable. Matthew had suffered from depression all of his life. In September 2013 the Warrens gave their first public interview with CNN. Piers Morgan called it “one of the most moving interviews I conducted in my life.” (more…)
Bob JonesMarch 1, 2020
On September 11, 2001 at 9:41:15 a.m Richard Drew captured a photograph of a man falling from the North Tower of the World Trade Center. (more…)
Bob JonesOctober 27, 2019
Pastors are an endangered species in North America. The women and men who accepted a call to shepherd congregations through their valleys of the shadow of death have broad shoulders. But even the best are falling prey to deadly burdens. (more…)
Bob JonesMay 3, 2019
Bright. Vibrant. Colorful. And, most essentially, fun. The same words used so often to describe the enormously popular handbags designed by Kate Spade were an apt description of the woman herself. And that only contributed to the sense of shock and loss upon hearing the news that Spade had taken her own life at 55. Shocked. Stunned. Saddened. Women around the world - from Chelsea Clinton and Ivanka Trump, to women in Europe shopping for a Kate Spade product - were stunned to hear that Kate was gone. Fern Mallis, former director of the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA), noted that the devastating news of Spade's death came just the morning after virtually the entire New York fashion industry…
Bob JonesJune 6, 2018