Christ follower, husband, dad, physician, retired child and adolescent psychiatrist, teacher, founder of Key Ministry, author of Mental Health and the Church
I've probably done a couple thousand talks over the past thirty years. Can't remember prepping as much as I have for this one in honor of our friend and @KeyMinistry teammate, Lamar Hardwick!
Bet there are some really interesting conversations this morning in pediatric hospital board rooms throughout Ohio. Clinic coughing up $308K for false billing for gender care in kids, plus $2M for detransitioners. fox8.com/news/doj-settlement…
"Must watch" talk of the day - from @JonHaidt. My fellow Christians need to protect kids (and themselves) from technology that undermines attention, since attention capacity is essential for spiritual growth. Second, being in the same physical space every now and then with folks you collaborate with online is critically important for connection and bonding, even in adults. One reason why gatherings like Disability and the Church are so important! ted.com/talks/jonathan_haidt…
After @CatherineSBoyle transitioned from @KeyMinistry staff to join our Board, she launched a podcast, Faith Becomes Sight, highlighting stories of how God works through the lives of "normal" Christians seeking to live out their faith. I was honored to join her for her most recent episode!
We took a step ahead this spring, but we are nowhere near where we need to be. I can’t thank the fans enough for the support this year. We will dig in all summer and do everything we possibly can to take the next step. We will grind until we get there.
Congrats to the @nyknicks, and best of luck in the Finals.
Here's a summary article, recently updated for some friends in ministry describing the extent to which kids and adults with "hidden disabilities" - especially mental health conditions are underrepresented in the church. drgrcevich.substack.com/p/th…
Our @KeyMinistry team has lost a dear friend and Board member and the American church a great disability ministry champion in Lamar Hardwick... the "Autism Pastor." Please watch the last eight minutes of his final sermon last month to close worship at Disability and the Church. youtu.be/0zbNGWV3T8w?si=hXrf…
There was a time when promotion of healthy reality testing was an essential component of a mental health professional's job. We gradually abandoned that over the last forty years when the commissars of the sexual revolution hijacked our medical and mental health institutions.
To be mentally healthy is to be dedicated to reality. Any therapist who affirms a patient’s delusion and pushes them into surgery is harming them, both mentally and physically. May this be one of many expensive settlements.
Study involving nearly two million kids... nearly one in ten pediatric visits are for mental health. 250% increase in pediatrician visits for anxiety over the last ten years, four-fold increase in pediatric visits for autism. nytimes.com/2026/05/18/scien…
Looking forward to this conversation with Beth Golik later today for this month's Disability Ministry Video Roundtable from @KeyMinistry. Link to register is in the comments.
This is a great point. How can a parent entrust their child to an institution that sought to profit from the gender confusion experienced by their child and many others - especially when the medical establishment continues to champion “gender affirming care?”
"From a legal liability standpoint, this is great news...
But from a practical standpoint, I can’t imagine that anyone who has had their body permanently altered as a child... would entrust their healing to the same gender-experimenting institution..." FRC's @QuenaGonzalez
Many young adults imagine they can play the relational field hard through their 20s, then settle down to marry and have kids around 30—à la @alexandracooper.
And sure, some pull it off. More-educated, affluent Americans manage it more often than not.
But what most don't realize: more sexual experience—especially 9 partners—is linked to lower odds of marital success up & down the socioeconomic ladder.
It's a robust predictor of divorce, with the effect holding with or without controls for religion, race, and education. This isn't a churchgoer story, or a college-grad story. It's a relational story.
And the costs fall hardest on those least able to absorb them. Lower-SES adults are more likely to combine multiple relationships w/ childbearing—and when those relationships break up, it's their kids who pay the price.
This is a great piece from @DeborahGeesling on a wonderful Christian ministry seeking to provide housing for young adults with serious mental illness - "Christ-centered homes that will be like family" - offering dignity, purpose and stability. open.substack.com/pub/debora…