Church Disorder

PTCD: Post-Traumatic Church Disorder – Addressing the Elephant in the Sanctuary is a raw, deeply personal, and spiritually grounded exploration of the wounds many believers carry from toxic church experiences. Written by Aaron D. Davis—a former police officer, S.W.A.T. team member, and seasoned pastor—this book bridges the worlds of trauma recovery and biblical leadership with authenticity, humility, and profound insight.

A guide for those looking to combine traditional ministry with modern support for children, teens, and adults with common mental health conditions and their families. The church across North America has struggled to minister effectively with people struggling with mental health issues. One...

In this Expanded Leadership Edition of PTCD: Post-Traumatic Church Disorder - Addressing the Elephant in the Sanctuary, Aaron D. Davis confronts one of the most painful and often avoided realities in Christian leadership: the damage done when leaders and systems in ministry, business, church, and the home lose alignment with the heart of God. Drawing from decades of ministry, personal experience, biblical truth, and leadership insight, he speaks with honesty to the spiritual wounds unhealthy leadership can create, to the leaders willing to examine what has been tolerated, inherited, or ...

The pastor and founder of Zoe Church reveals the Church’s role in the rising levels of narcissism today and the Bible’s countercultural call to humility. Popular author, speaker, and pastor of Zoe Church in Los Angeles, Chad Veach tackles one of the Christian’s greatest foes: an obsession...

Autism is a spectrum disorder with unique and varied experiences for each individual affected. Conversion to Jesus Christ and membership in His church are similarly diverse journeys. This book navigates this nuance by sharing the stories of thirty individuals with autism and their families' experiences with Jesus Christ in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

In the aftermath of the pandemic, even those who have never struggled with mental health have found themselves reeling, looking for answers they don't know how to find. For Christians, especially those who've despaired of help from a church that has too often stigmatized poor mental health as a lack of faith, the way forward can be particularly difficult to see. Jonathon Seidl aims to fix that. Having fought his own way through crippling anxiety, life-altering OCD, and suicidal thoughts, he knows the value of concrete advice grounded in strong biblical truth. 

How can you lose weight, ease chronic conditions, and stay healthier longer? Discover how to “rewrite your health destiny” (David Perlmutter, MD, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Grain Brain) with this accessible book that teaches you how to flip the switch on your metabolism with...

The greatest nightmare in Christianity is a Bride who doesn’t love her Groom. Jesus is expecting His Bride to be unblemished and without a wrinkle. The Narcissistic Bride of Christ is a prophetic encouragement for the Church to recognize that narcissistic behavior within us is destructive. Narcissism, proper name Ruach Narcissus, is a spirit that attaches itself to humans that make up the Bride of Christ. This spiritual oppression attacks the Bride because the Bride herself is a spiritual principle. We must put on our spiritual eyes and take a journey through scripture to defeat this ...

What happens when the man who vowed to love you becomes the one you fear most? For seven years, I lived behind the mask of a pastor’s wife—smiling at church, managing a business, raising three daughters, while behind closed doors, I was being systematically destroyed. This memoir exposes: ∙ The subtle erosion of a marriage into violence ∙ Alcohol addiction fueling rage and manipulation ∙ Narcissistic control over finances, business, and identity ∙ An affair with my own cousin—betrayal on every level ∙ Witchcraft accusations and spiritual abuse ∙ Being exiled, isolated, and...

The inspiring true story of a nice Jewish boy who left the Church of Scientology to become the lovely lady she is today. In the early 1970s, a boy from a Conservative Jewish family joined the Church of Scientology. In 1981, that boy officially left the movement and ultimately transitioned into a...

Mental Illness is real. Will the Church get real? This book is a collection of essays from various authors: men and women, pastors and congregants, counselors and nurses, parents and children. All have a unique view of how mental health conditions affect people, and how the church has responded to these circumstances. Whispers in the Pews tackles how the mentally ill have been, and still are, treated in the church at large by sharing stories. This is not fundamentally a teaching book, but a book of moments and lives, knitted together by the common theme of mental health.

A “moving” (Leslie Jamison, author of The Recovering) memoir that reconciles the author’s bipolar disorder diagnosis and her Evangelical faith to create a new framework for which to live. In this “dazzling” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) memoir, Anna Gazmarian tells the story of...