Over the past few months, no, years, I have been reflecting on what it means to have a healthy spirituality. Now, to me spirituality is the thing that breathes life into you. And more than that, hopefully your spirituality is […]
My name is John Chaffee, I am 37 years old and I have essentially worked in paid ministries in different capacities for now 20 years. When I read your recent article that 38% of US pastors have thought about quitting […]
If “Christianity” is just about life after death but never asking the difficult question of the possibility of life BEFORE death then you can count whole scores of people out. More than that, If it is about denying the hard […]
So, I made a logo. It was through Fiverr. Here is the breakdown as I see it. I think it turned out to be a simple but very compact in its meaning. Here we go. The Compass (around the edge) […]
Each year I make it a goal to read a certain number of books. I think this year, thanks to Covid, was my all time most. This year was a lot of diving further into contemplative Christianity, prophetic preaching and […]
Yikes. Is that a hot take? Maybe. Hear me out. “If you are mature, then you will interpret Christianity in a mature way. If you are immature, then you will interpret Christianity in an immature way.“ Makes sense, I think. […]
It is a difficult thing to preach. Years of study on the content on top of years of learning public speaking make it out to be a task more than some people may realize. It takes a sincere amount of […]
“It is no small pity, and should cause us no little shame, that, through our own fault, we do not understand ourselves, or know who we are. Would it not be a sign of great ignorance, my daughters, if a […]
I was fortunate enough to have two parents that were educators. As they were raising my brother and I, learning was an important emphasis. Throughout childhood and into teenage years, we also had the benefit of a pastor at our […]
It is not a difficult statement to make that we tend to see ourselves as the ones in the right, those who already champion others, or what-have-you. What is difficult, however, is to course correct and humbly ask if we […]