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  • Start Here
    • About John
    • Testimonials
    • Digital Store
    • Blog
    • Support/Donate
  • Services
  • Online Classes
  • Resources
    • Begin Again Podcast
    • John’s Books
    • Book Club
    • Whiteboard Talks
    • Suggested Reading
    • Frameworks
      • What is Grave’s Spiral Dynamics?
      • The 5 Stages of Conflict
      • Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral Development
      • Bloom’s Taxonomy
      • The Dark Night of the Soul
      • Erikson’s Stages of Development
      • What is the Enneagram?
        • 1: The Reformer
        • 2: The Helper
        • 3: The Achiever
        • 4: The Individualist
        • 5: The Investigator
        • 6: The Loyalist
        • 7: The Enthusiast
        • 8: The Challenger
        • 9: The Peacemaker
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Meet John Chaffee

After twenty years of pastoring in churches, camps, and prisons, my calling expanded beyond conventional church work—helping the tired pastor, the one who left the church, and the one still quietly questioning in the pew.

Formed by Merton, Nouwen, Barth, and the Desert Mothers and Fathers, I write, teach, offer spiritual direction/classes, and lead retreats on the Christian mystics and contemplative wisdom, with one hope: to walk with you through the dark night, not around it.

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Where should you begin?

Five questions, about two minutes. The answer points to the book, class, or conversation that fits where you are now.

Your answers stay in this page unless you choose to share your email. Questions about any of this: john@johnchaffee.com

“The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it.”
– Henri Nouwen, Dutch Catholic Priest

Listen to a Podcast or Get the Most Recent Book

Begin Again is My Podcast with Reflections, Interviews, and Other Random Thoughts about Life, Spirituality, Theology, and More.
The Way of Holy Foolishness book
For Those Reconstructing Their Faith… A Modern Rule of Life Rooted in the Ancient Traditions of Christendom.

Join an Upcoming Class

The Fully Alive Online Class.
For Those Reconstructing Their Faith and Need Help… An Online Class Going Through 5 Themes and 4 Tasks to a More Robust Faith.
Learn More about Fully Alive
The Integrity Rising Online Class.
For Those Interested in the Christian Mystics… An Online Class Bringing Ancient Christian Contemplative Wisdom to Today’s World.
Learn More about Integrity Rising
The Contemplative Enneagram online class.
For Those Looking to Understand Themselves More… An Online Class Designed to Integrate Christian Spirituality with the Enneagram.
Learn More about TCE

“For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self.”
– Thomas Merton, 20th Century Trappist Monk

You can also join my Patreon community for the Book Club as well as excerpts of books I am writing.

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“There is no other light to guide you except that which burns in your heart.”
– St. John of the Cross, 16th Century Spanish Mystic

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“The day of my spiritual awakening was the day I saw and knew I saw – all things in God and God in all things.”
– Mechthilde of Magdeburg, 13th Century Beguine Mystic

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