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© 2024 — John Chaffee MDiv/ThM

“We are just poets,” said the Prophets.

Hans urs Von Balthasar, in his Magnum Opus Theological Aesthetics, said that the prophets have never used any medium other than art.  In all of human history, no other medium has been able to carry the full weight of the prophet’s...

The “New” Mysticism

I think American views of Christianity are at a fork in the road.  Some are lamenting while others rejoice that the criticisms of religion are finally mainstream.  Religion has been displaced from the public sphere for nearly a generation now...

On Talking Poorly about the Divine

I will openly state that I absolutely believe there is a right and a wrong way of speaking about the Divine/God/Faith/Spirituality/etc. (more…)

The Third Way of St. Francis

Ferdinand de Saussure was a structuralist philosopher, a man who was very much concerned with how the human brain organizes information and assimilates a worldview.  From him, we gained the notion that the human brain organizes new information in binaries,...

The Rage of the Prophets

Abraham Joshua Heschel wrote one of my absolute favorite books.  It was simply titled The Prophets, and you guessed it, it was a book on the Hebrew prophets.  Originally, it was the content of his PhD dissertation, but after some admonition...

Was Jesus Conservative or Liberal?

Yes.  The answer is yes. Jesus was at the same time, both liberal and conservative. John 8 is one of my favorite passages of Scripture.  It is a snapshot of Jesus that does not exist in the other three Gospels,...

So, why did I start this?

I guess that is a great first question to answer. Quite simply, I felt like I have something to offer. There came a point in my life, roughly six months ago when I realized that I was waiting.  I was...