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An Act of Faith: One Friend’s Loss is a Community’s Gain

An Act of Faith: One Friend’s Loss is a Community’s Gain, by Jonah Sanderson.  Photograph of lit candles by Mike Labrum
Photograph by Mike Labrum

Devastated by the suicide of a dear friend, a young man turns his grief into action to help others contend with issues of mental and emotional health

If religion and mental health were two colliding cars, could they meet without crashing?

Many people who have been through life-shaping moments, like the Kennedy assassination, remember where they were and how they felt on that very day. Though I wasn’t alive during that era, two years ago I had such a moment in my life. I woke up, and like every other day

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