About
Welcome! My name is Pastor Todd Peperkorn, and I’m the author of the book, I Trust When Dark My Road: A Lutheran View of Depression. This is my blog. At this blog we deal primarily with the areas of mental health (depression, anxiety, bi-polar disorder, etc.), the theology of the cross, and the pastoral office. Occasionally you will find other topics that may pop up as well.
I started this blog anonymously in 2007 as a way of speaking about depression and the pastoral office. At the time I was on disability for major clinical depression. You can read the book or all the back posts to find out more about that. Through a series of wonderful events, LCMS World Relief and Human Care agreed to publish Dark My Road and make it available free of charge. I would urge you to go to the book page and find out the order information.
If you want to find out more about me, you may check out my personal site here. My regular pastor blog is titled Lutheran Logomaniac, and I would invite you to join us in that conversation, where I will post sermons, articles, musings, rants, pictures and all sorts of other items of interest. And if you’ are really into wasting time, you can find me on Facebook here. I currently serve the wonderful people at Messiah Lutheran Church in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
My church body is The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod, although I doubt my experiences are unique to the LCMS.
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July 30th, 2009 on 8:20 pm
Hi Todd. I host a blog that is targeted to Christians who are suffering from a mental illness and the stigma that accompanies it. I know two Lutheran brothers who are supportive of what I'm doing and they led me here. I am seeking to list more churches where believers can visit knowing they won't be told their illness is a sin issue or doesn't exist. Many have been hurt deeply because of this. My blog is at http://www.morethancoping.wordpress.com and if you would maybe you might contact me at erunner54@gmail.com Maybe I could link here as well?? God bless! Allan
July 30th, 2009 on 8:20 pm
Hi Todd. I host a blog that is targeted to Christians who are suffering from a mental illness and the stigma that accompanies it. I know two Lutheran brothers who are supportive of what I'm doing and they led me here. I am seeking to list more churches where believers can visit knowing they won't be told their illness is a sin issue or doesn't exist. Many have been hurt deeply because of this. My blog is at http://www.morethancoping.wordpress.com and if you would maybe you might contact me at erunner54@gmail.com Maybe I could link here as well?? God bless! Allan
December 21st, 2009 on 11:13 pm
Hi Todd,
I thank you for your courage in writing your book. It will give hundreds of Pastors, Priests and other clergy the courage to
seek help. I am an Episcopal priest in the Diocese of California
in the San Francisco Bay Area and the father of a son who lives with us and lives with Schizophrenia. I have been active
in the NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, for over 25 years. I invite you to visit our website at http://www.nami.org
and type in NAMIFAITHNET and see the amount of resources
that are available for free. I would like to hear from you.
My email address is FRCHET@SBCGLOBAL.NET
Thank you again for your courage. You are a brave man.
Rev.Chet Watson
Chair, Commission on Mental Illness, Diocese of Ca. S.F
December 21st, 2009 on 11:13 pm
Hi Todd,
I thank you for your courage in writing your book. It will give hundreds of Pastors, Priests and other clergy the courage to
seek help. I am an Episcopal priest in the Diocese of California
in the San Francisco Bay Area and the father of a son who lives with us and lives with Schizophrenia. I have been active
in the NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, for over 25 years. I invite you to visit our website at http://www.nami.org
and type in NAMIFAITHNET and see the amount of resources
that are available for free. I would like to hear from you.
My email address is FRCHET@SBCGLOBAL.NET
Thank you again for your courage. You are a brave man.
Rev.Chet Watson
Chair, Commission on Mental Illness, Diocese of Ca. S.F