Depressed Christians and the Good News of Outwardness
By Phil Anderas Depression and inwardness are a deadly cocktail. In fact, depending how you look at it, depression and inwardness are the same thing. The soul “curved in upon itself,” as Martin Luther put it, not in giddy pride but in self-loathing despair. Or the self stuck with itself, stuck inside itself, stuck being an insecure, wretched, yet self-obsessed self gnawing on its own inadequacy, with distraction (temporary) or death (permanent) the only possibilities for relief (Kierkegaard, Walker Percy). It’s awful.
