So, a while back I did a Twitter rant. Well, perhaps it was a bit more than a rant, it was an attempt to try and distill the incredibly dense and intricate insights of Spiral Dynamics… or, as I playfully...
Failed Resolutions? At this point of the year, you may have given up on your New Year’s Resolutions. For some it included working out more, talking with friends more, eliminating unnecessary spending, eliminating bad habits, etc. And, possibly for you,...
“You’ve made a holy fool of me and I’ve thanked you ever since.” – In a Sweater Poorly Knit by mewithoutYou When I first heard the above lyric, I was tickled by the wordplay. A “holy fool” is the old...
A few days ago I looked at my Goodreads app to see what books I have logged in this calendar year. 2020 was my record (thanks to the pandemic), with this year being 32 books read (as of writing this)....
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...
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