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Is Depression a Spiritual Failure—or a Human Signal? Justin McRoberts & Scott Erickson on In the Low
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57:33Now PlayingIs depression a spiritual failure—or a deeply human signal we’ve misunderstood?
In this episode of The Faith Roundtable, Josh Burtram, co-host of the Faithful Politics Podcast and host of The Faith Roundtable, sits down with Justin McRoberts and Scott Erickson to explore faith, mental health, and what the church often gets wrong about darkness.
Drawing from their book In the Low, Justin and Scott challenge the idea that depression is something to fix, overcome, or spiritualize away. Instead, they frame “the low” as a place of honest prayer, deep formation, and necessary reckoning—personally, spiritually, and culturally.
This wide-ranging conversation explores why depression is often about disconnection rather than weakness, how modern religious, political, and algorithmic systems train us to avoid darkness, why faith communities struggle with anxiety, grief, and disorientation, and what it means to find God not by escaping the dark—but by staying with it.
If you’re wrestling with mental health, burnout, doubt, or the sense that faith has become too shallow for real life, this episode offers language, depth, and companionship—without clichés or easy answers.
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