Crucial conversations about mental health and mental healthcare from a faith perspective.Emerging from David FinneganHoseys personal experience of living with a diagnosis deemed a preexisting condition by insurance companies Grace is a Preexisting Condition explores the theological and spiritual dimensions of our public discourse around mental healthcare and mental illness and finds there the transformative reality of grace. The authors insights will be of benefit to anyone concerned about creating a more just healthcare system but particularly those who struggle withand care for those who struggle withmental health. Though focusing on mental health including preexisting conditions and medical debt his observations are equally applicable to people dealing with a variety of physical and chronic illnesses.