Stephen Grcevich, MD

Ran into a friend of @KeyMinistry at the White House today. There is no greater champion for mental health in Christian media than @parshalltalk

@aaron_renn @ryanburge Agree! Integrity with data seems in short supply these days. All too often in my profession (medicine), findings are twisted to support a favored narrative. Never get that impression in following Ryan's work. His pursuit of truth in his work is a much-needed Christian witness.

. @ryanburge is an archetype of the high-minded Protestant man who is interested in truth, fairness, and getting it right above merely championing his own team or cause. He may not always be right. He's not above criticism. But you see all too few people even trying these days.

Here's a summary article, recently updated for some friends in ministry describing the extent to which kids and adults with "hidden disabilities" - especially mental health conditions are underrepresented in the church. drgrcevich.substack.com/p/the-hidden-d…

@kageyPhoto @DavidAFrench onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

@drgrcevich @DavidAFrench I'm curious - what is the source of that? My wife is working on a degree in disability ministry, and would like to point her to some additional research.

@DavidAFrench Wish there had been some mention of their church. Sadly, the presence in the home of a child with autism decreases the likelihood of that family setting foot in a church by 84%, compared to families unaffected by disability.

My goodness. This is so beautiful.

Our @KeyMinistry team has lost a dear friend and Board member and the American church a great disability ministry champion in Lamar Hardwick... the "Autism Pastor." Please watch the last eight minutes of his final sermon last month to close worship at Disability and the Church. youtu.be/0zbNGWV3T8w?si…

There was a time when promotion of healthy reality testing was an essential component of a mental health professional's job. We gradually abandoned that over the last forty years when the commissars of the sexual revolution hijacked our medical and mental health institutions.

@SethDillon There was a time when promotion of healthy reality testing was an essential component of a mental health professional's job. We gradually abandoned that over the last forty years when the commissars of the sexual revolution hijacked our medical and mental health institutions.

To be mentally healthy is to be dedicated to reality. Any therapist who affirms a patient’s delusion and pushes them into surgery is harming them, both mentally and physically. May this be one of many expensive settlements.

Study involving nearly two million kids... nearly one in ten pediatric visits are for mental health. 250% increase in pediatrician visits for anxiety over the last ten years, four-fold increase in pediatric visits for autism. nytimes.com/2026/05/18/sci…

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Looking forward to this conversation with Beth Golik later today for this month's Disability Ministry Video Roundtable from @KeyMinistry. Link to register is in the comments.

This is a great point. How can a parent entrust their child to an institution that sought to profit from the gender confusion experienced by their child and many others - especially when the medical establishment continues to champion “gender affirming care?”

Many young adults imagine they can play the relational field hard through their 20s, then settle down to marry and have kids around 30—à la @alexandracooper. And sure, some pull it off. More-educated, affluent Americans manage it more often than not. But what most don't realize: more sexual experience—especially 9+ partners—is linked to lower odds of marital success up & down the socioeconomic ladder. It's a robust predictor of divorce, with the effect holding with or without controls for religion, race, and education. This isn't a churchgoer story, or a college-grad story. It's a relational story. And the costs fall hardest on those least able to absorb them. Lower-SES adults are more likely to combine multiple relationships w/ childbearing—and when those relationships break up, it's their kids who pay the price.

@NilsSmith I’d rather build whichever of those two options is most impactful in bringing honor and glory to God. If that’s a business that generates money to fund ministry or a personal platform that leads others to seek him, so be it.

Would you rather: A) Build a highly profitable business nobody knows about B) Build a highly visible personal brand that opens endless opportunities

This is a great piece from @DeborahGeesling on a wonderful Christian ministry seeking to provide housing for young adults with serious mental illness - "Christ-centered homes that will be like family" - offering dignity, purpose and stability. open.substack.com/pub/deborahgee…

@HSRdirector The relevant issue is every leader in our medical institutions was created with a conscience. Colleagues who point out actions inconsistent with the purposes of medicine that they know in their hearts are wrong represent a threat that must be silenced.

I used this slide in a recent talk — words from Carl Elliott Medical traditions are notoriously difficult to uproot and academic medicine does not easily tolerate ethical dissent.

Let the Arch Manning death march begin! @Browns

@Jilliantweeting Thanks for your commitment for practicing sound medicine and for your continued advocacy on behalf of our most vulnerable kids at great professional cost. You’re a credit to the specialty of child and adolescent psychiatry and a role model for our peers.

Just letting everyone know: we’re okay. A rough 2026 so far but it will get better.

@Katy_Faust @seattletimes Congratulations! You wouldn't be getting this type of coverage if your arguments weren't getting traction.

Nice hit piece on me for Mother's Day! Note that your reporter didn't have the balls to link to my actual speech on the connection between Obergefell and child commodification. Here it is. Also delightful that he publicly dropped my location this week. No big deal, it's not like progressives are targeting conservatives for violence these days. Seattle Times used to involve confronting arguments. Now it mostly involves hiding them from readers. $300,000 from the Servant Foundation. That's like a bank or a donor advised fund. Scary! Nothing terrifies activists disguised as reporters more than people voluntarily funding ideas they can’t silence. I see you linked to the Gallup poll up top that (had people clicked) showed support for same-sex marriage among Republicans has fallen to 41% but later when you needed a better-looking number, linked a less-known poll that said it was still at 56%. Scared much? You shared my salary of $135k and that we raised an alarming $1M last year. Yet refused to include the same info for Karen Loewy at Lambda Legal - $240k/$58M who you cited. Seems transparency only applies to people you’re trying to smear. And Greater Than @MakeKidsGreater isn't endorsed by 47 organizations, it's now 62. Had you the spine to link our actual website, readers would instantly recognize that you're not engaged in journalism but narrative management. Funny how often “fact checks” depend on making sure readers never see... the actual facts. And yes. I am plotting a "global takeover" so that every conversation about marriage and family is "child centric." Elevating justice for the weak. You should try it sometime. youtube.com/watch?v=HBlIrv…

Katy Faust, a Seattle-based Christian activist, has quietly gained prominence as a national leader in a conservative campaign to undo legal same-sex marriages. #Echobox=1778420660-3" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">seattletimes.com/seattle-news/p…

Study link: ifstudies.org/report-brief/h…

Fascinating finding from @FamStudies explaining why kids from religious families have better mental health outcomes. Families that attend worship services at least once a month are significantly more likely to have parents who impose screen time limits.