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Colleen C. Mitchell

Colleen Mitchell is a writer, speaker, social worker, and mother. Her books include Who Does He Say You Are: Women Transformed by Christ in the Gospels and When We Were Eve: Uncovering the Woman God Created You to Be.
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Fighting the Stigma of Mental Illness

Colleen C. Mitchell May 9, 2018

“But I am pretty sure [my friend] never imagined the day she would calm me on the phone after an irregular mammogram, the day she would see the reality of what I meant by severe anxiety and self-harm tendencies, what she would come to know about the roots of my pain and shame.

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Women Complete the Masterpiece

Colleen C. Mitchell May 6, 2018

God looked at the world he had created, teeming with life, stars flung across the heavens, every bird and bug and animal and flower in its most glorious state, the rivers and mountains and valleys and seas, and man—perfect in his reflection of the image of God—he looked at all of that, and saw that it was incomplete, that something was still missing. Before the Lord of the universe could sit back and rest, he longed for one more thing: to bring woman to life.

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