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Recommended Reading: Not Quite Fine

Carlene Hill Byron is a friend on the mental health advocacy “webosphere” and she graciously offered for me to read and review her first published work, Not Quite Fine: Mental Health, Faith, and Showing Up for One Another. By just looking at the quality of the cover design, it’s actually quite a fine book.

She did her homework. In just the first 3 chapters she provides figures and facts on the world’s state of mental health. Byron doesn’t inundate, but in a seasoned voice, shares her findings that correlate to the troubling state of today’s depressed, isolated, anxious society.

The author goes to great lengths to back up her findings with a slew of sources that illustrate current conditions. Thus, we can start to see why conditions are the way they are.

Quoting philosophers to Christian giants of the faith, she paints a vivid picture of being “not quite fine” due to a variety of factors.

I highly recommend that you pick up Not Quite Fine. For the reasons mentioned, and for the simple reason that she wrote the book that was meant to be written for such a time as this. As she pulls from history, she also addresses the current Pandemic situation. Carlene gives grounded explanations for our sad state of such conditions in the church and world today.

This book is a needed answer to the issues we see in the church and gives us practical ways to treat those with those issues.

Because, that’s what the God Who is Love would do.

Thank you, Carlene, for penning the book we need right now.

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