Can Church Solve the Mental Health Crisis? Legendary TV Host Says Yes
By Movieguide® Contributor
Kathie Lee Gifford believes God is the only way to solve mental health problems.
In an interview with Fox News, Gifford shared her thoughts.
Fox News host Pete Hegseth began by referencing a quote from psychiatrist Dr. Daniel Amen:
We’re on the beginning of a tidal wave of brain and mental health problems in young people, and it’s because we’re more disconnected than ever before. So it’s back to church. Go back to church. Get involved. And really, no better place to solve it than church.
“We’re not meant to be alone,” Gifford said, referring to the quote. “We’re meant to have community. Now the word ‘church’ does not mean a building. In the Greek, it’s ‘ecclesia.’ It means a movement and a gathering.”
Gifford believes that the problem with Christianity in the West is a lack of identity. “We do not know where we came from,” she said. “We came from a long love story of God creating a nation so he could bring the Messiah to the world so that all of human kind could be saved.”
In a world that leaves us feeling insecure and uncertain, God’s promises are the one thing we can be certain of.
“The only thing you can count on in life is that God will keep his promises,” Gifford said.
Faith is the most important part of Gifford’s life, and she frequently shares resources to help her fans strengthen their faith. Most recently, she released a new book called “Herod and Mary: The True Story of the Tyrant King and the Mother of the Risen Savior.”
“This riveting narrative nonfiction work reveals deep insight to how Herod came to power, how corruption and an ancient evil threatened the stability of a nation, and how a teenage Mary was called to traverse these obstacles to bring the Savior, Jesus, our living hope, into the world,” a synopsis reads.
“I’m fascinated by these huge, huge, epic evil presences all through scripture, always juxtaposed against God’s goodness and His hope,” Gifford said of what inspired the book.
She’s been recovering from hip replacement surgery and fracturing her pelvis. Movieguide® reported:
Talk show host Kathie Lee Gifford was hospitalized recently after falling and fracturing her pelvis in two places.
The 70-year-old former TODAY show host partly blames herself for pushing her body too hard by moving 300 books by herself before the incident. The next day, she was walking to her front door and tripped.
She shared more about the accident with PEOPLE.
“It didn’t take much, because I was weak in that spot. And the next thing you know, I am back in the hospital with a fractured pelvis, the front and the back. That’s more painful than anything I went through with the hip. The pelvis is unbelievably painful. But anyway, here I am.”
