By Brian Mudd
Part 2: Harvard Study – Faith improves mental health outcomes
Bottom Line: In the first part of this story, I shared remarkable research from Harvard demonstrating a direct connection between faith and mental health. In case you missed it here are a few highlights:
By the age of 20 those raised with religious practices average being...
18% happier
33% less likely to engage in substance abuse
What’s more is that those who fared best were those who prayed daily. In other words, having faith in one’s life in any capacity provided benefit, the more involved with one’s faith one was, the greater the benefit. In this follow up I want to illustrate a few points about what’s happened to education outcomes and mental health since we actively began to remove faith and God from the classroom and society generally.