With a woman at look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with the point.

Recently on NPR, reporter Rachel Martin interviewed Dr. Lisa Miller, professor of clinical psychology

at Columbia, about her controversial claim that spirituality is good for mental health.

According to Miller, those who say spirituality is very important to them, show an 80% decrease

risk of addiction to drugs and alcohol, and are 82% less likely to die by suicide.

And fact, Miller says, the more high-risk we are, the more the stress in our lives, the

greater the impact of spirituality as a source of resilience.

So here is published, peer-reviewed science for skeptical audience, concluded the interviewer

that runs contrary to what we so often hear, though what kind of religion is not specified

by Dr. Miller, apparently turning our focus outward and even upward is better for us than

just looking inside or following our hearts.

That makes sense if we're indeed creatures, not just self-creations, made for a relationship

with the one who gave us life in the first place.

I'm John Stone Street.