Blog It’s Always Been About Love When you’re young, it’s easy to confuse strength with dominance; when you’re older, you realize the feat of character it…Chuck DeGroatMarch 1, 2021
Blog You Got Meme’d: Is There Hope for our Diseased Discourse? It’s August 15. I’m coming off of a particularly unhurried and reflective season where I’ve dabbled less in social media.…Chuck DeGroatSeptember 28, 2020
Blog When Narcissism Comes to…a Global Pandemic She wrote to me exasperated, looking for some clarity.* It was two weeks ago or so, and her church staff…Chuck DeGroatApril 2, 2020
Blog When Our Heroes Fail Us Years ago, I heard Henri Nouwen on an old recording tell the story of his path from teaching in the…Chuck DeGroatFebruary 27, 2020
Blog Stewarding the Death of the Church, Part 2: A People of Spiritual Integrity (more…)Chuck DeGroatJuly 30, 2019
Blog Trust the Process: Stewarding the Death of the American Church I don’t know exactly how this dying will play out. I’m anxious about it. It impacts my longtime call, my…Chuck DeGroatApril 6, 2019
Blog God is Secure God seems so good in this story,” she said. “So relaxed. So at ease. Patient. Probably sad, but so willing…Chuck DeGroatMarch 9, 2019
Blog Grace and the Warm Embrace When I started my first “official” pastoral role in the late 1990’s, I immediately hung a painting of Rembrandt’s Return…Chuck DeGroatFebruary 9, 2019
Blog Make Christianity Great Again? My friends who are skeptics are cynical about Christianity these days. From our intramural fights to our political collusion on…Chuck DeGroatJuly 10, 2018
Blog What in the world does it mean to be “Reformed”? by Chuck De Groat I’d written a piece for The Twelve some time ago and a friend dropped a text…Chuck DeGroatMay 29, 2018