I Trust When Dark My Road: A Lutheran View of Depression

03/25/2022

After many years of being out of print, I am thrilled to announce that I Trust When Dark My Road: A Lutheran View of Depression, is now back in print! As many of you know by now, last summer I accepted the called to serve as an assistant professor and Director of Vicarage and Internships at Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, Indiana....

https://www.darkmyroad.org/2022/03/i-trust-when-dark-my-road-is-available-again/

After many years of being out of print, I am thrilled to announce that I Trust When Dark My Road: A Lutheran View of Depression, is now back in print! As many of you know by now, last summer I acce…

11/04/2021

Well look what just came back in print?

https://bookstore.ctsfw.edu/i-trust-when-dark-my-road-lutheran-view-depression

It is $5.99.

04/02/2021

Fifteen years ago today I almost took my own life. I was in the middle of a “major depressive episode,” and got some really bad news from our insurance company. Because that is how fragile we are sometimes. The deeply spiritual and reflective times of life (like Good Friday) are often interrupted and derailed by the very human and earthly things of life....

https://www.darkmyroad.org/2021/04/fifteen-years/

Fifteen years ago today I almost took my own life. I was in the middle of a “major depressive episode,” and got some really bad news from our insurance company. Because that is how fragile we are s…

09/16/2019

http://www.darkmyroad.org/2019/09/speaking-at-the-lookup-conference/

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09/04/2019

I am speaking at this conference in October. If you are interested, please consider joining us. It promises to be a great conference.

09/12/2018

Friends, I will be preaching and speaking on depression and the cross on Sunday, September 30th, at St. Paul's Lutheran Chapel and University Center. Below you will find a link to the Facebook event. I hope you will consider attending! Pastor Todd Peperkorn Facebook Event for Sept. 30 Event
http://www.darkmyroad.org/2018/09/preaching-and-speaking-at-st-pauls-chapel-iowa-city/

Friends, I will be preaching and speaking on depression and the cross on Sunday, September 30th, at St. Paul’s Lutheran Chapel and University Center. Below you will find a link to the Faceboo…

09/26/2017

I will be speaking on Mental Illness and the Church on Sunday, October 1, from 3-5 p.m. at Bethany Lutheran Church in Fairview Heights, Illinois. Here is a link to the Facebook Event for it: Bethany FB Event I hope to see some of you there! Pastor Peperkorn

http://www.darkmyroad.org/2017/09/speaking-at-bethany-in-fairview-heights-il/

I will be speaking on Mental Illness and the Church on Sunday, October 1, from 3-5 p.m. at Bethany Lutheran Church in Fairview Heights, Illinois. Here is a link to the Facebook Event for it: Bethan…

12/23/2016

A meditation on the times, by Todd A. Peperkorn There is something about this season that has a weightiness to it. I don’t mean a seriousness. We work very, very hard never to be serious in our world today. No, I mean a weightiness, that we are weighed down by many cares and worries. In my own congregation we are weighed down with death. [ 406 more words ]

http://www.darkmyroad.org/2016/12/the-weight-of-the-season/

A meditation on the times, by Todd A. Peperkorn There is something about this season that has a weightiness to it. I don’t mean a seriousness. We work very, very hard never to be serious in our wor…

09/01/2016

Heaven help us.

The Netherlands considers itself oh, so rational. Its laws around controversial social issues involve the concept of harm reduction. Harm reduction? Once the

08/02/2016

Greetings, friends! It has now been almost eight years since my book, I Trust When Dark My Road: A Lutheran View of Depression, was published by the now-defunct LCMS World Relief and Human Care. It went through two printings, and continues to be downloaded as a PDF on a daily basis. I also continue to receive requests for it on a regular basis. [ 176 more words. ]

http://www.darkmyroad.org/2016/08/soliciting-help-for-self-publishing-i-trust-when-dark-my-road/

Greetings, friends! It has now been almost eight years since my book, I Trust When Dark My Road: A Lutheran View of Depression, was published by the now-defunct LCMS World Relief and Human Care. It…

05/12/2016

Woman Dealing With Depression, Anorexia Euthanized When Doctors Decide She Can’t be Cured The above article, found on lifenews.com, demonstrates the dangerous intersection of a self-willed society and a terrible disregard for human life. Kyrie Eleison!

http://www.darkmyroad.org/2016/05/euthanasia-and-depression%ef%bb%bf/

Woman Dealing With Depression, Anorexia Euthanized When Doctors Decide She Can’t be Cured The above article, found on lifenews.com, demonstrates the dangerous intersection of a self-willed society …

03/31/2016

Okay, friends. I am working on a paper about modern Christian views of mental illness. If anyone has concrete examples of modern Evangelical, mainline protestant, Catholic or Lutheran views toward mental illness, send them my way!

Thanks very much.

Pastor Todd Peperkorn

03/25/2016

Ten years ago, on Good Friday in 2006, my life took a profound turn for the worse and for the better. I was on partial disability for clinical depression, and I was barely hanging on. Trying to “do” disability, be a pastor, and a father to two girls and a newborn only weeks old, it was all getting the best of me. [ 980 more words. ]

http://www.darkmyroad.org/2016/03/five-things-i-have-learned-after-living-with-depression-for-ten-years/

If you are suffering with depression, bipolar disorder, or the myriad over other mental illnesses that seem to afflict us day by day, know this: you are not alone. Christ has suffered for us, and w…

08/22/2014

Peperkorn on Higher Things Radio http://wp.me/pash9-aq

I was interview recently on Higher Things Radio. It is on su***de and depression. I thought the interview went really well, and answered some questions I haven’t talked about before. Episode 287. Enjoy! -Peperkorn

08/12/2014

Suicde http://wp.me/sash9-suicde

I will be writing more on this in the days to come, but in the meantime, here is an interview I just did on Issues, Etc.. The topic is su***de and mental illness. http://issuesetc.org/2014/08/12/3-su***de-pr-todd-peperkorn-81214/ Peace be with you all!… [ 24 more words. ]

01/10/2014

Things That Time Cannot Mend, But Jesus Can http://wp.me/pash9-am

“How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart, you begin to understand, there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that … Continue reading →

07/03/2013

I am experimenting with putting my book up in the Internet world as either an ePub book or maybe as a print-on-demand book from Lulu.com. If you are interested in taking a peek at what it would look like in ePub, leave a comment here. Thanks! -Peperkorn