Sad News: Rick Warren's mentally ill son has taken his own life.
The Christian and secular media are reporting the tragic news that Rick Warren’s son has taken his own life after a lifelong battle with mental illness . The Warrens will be grieving and in terrible distress right now. Every Christian reading this should please offer a prayer of support on their behalf. At times like these the love of friends and family will be a great support to them, but will not take away the pain. Rick and Kay need the love of Jesus to be especially real to them at this difficult time. Please pray this for them. Even with such support in prayer, they will of course still mourn. We do grieve as Christians, but we greive differently to those without hope. Many of you will not know that I am a psychiatrist by training, and still work in that field (although I no longer have direct patient contact). As such I know the devastation that mental illness can bring in its wake only too well. We live in a fallen world. Rick’s son reportedly received some of the best inte