Keeping Faith in the Silence

In her compelling memoir Still Life, author Gillian Marchenko recounts her struggles with depression:

Yes, but what about Jesus?” friends ask later on. It is a valid question. If others look at my life, I hope they’ll see that faith is important. I believe in the story that some people let waft through their minds only at Christmas: that Christ was born of a virgin, lived a perfect life, died a death we all deserve, so that we can have a bridge to God. Sergei is a minister.

I spent years as a…