The Year of the Enneagram
By Chuck DeGroat Have I told you about the ‘lost’ chapter in my 2014 book Toughest People to Love? The book was originally nine chapters,
Chuck DeGroat
October 10, 2017
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By Chuck DeGroat Have I told you about the ‘lost’ chapter in my 2014 book Toughest People to Love? The book was originally nine chapters,
In my first year of mental health counselor training, she called me out. My supervisor – a wily veteran whose style was a mashup of
Sometimes I tell people that if I ever became a pastor (or in the nomenclature of the denomination I grew up in: preacher), I’d get
“You can’t get there from within the system.” – Peter Enns Last weekend, my spouse and I attended the Evolving Faith Conference in Denver. We
It was one of those mysterious, sudden impulses that came on me like a message from aliens: you must do crossword puzzles. It hit me
When you’re young, it’s easy to confuse strength with dominance; when you’re older, you realize the feat of character it takes to be meek. I
Twenty years ago, in a senior seminar undergrad course, I was assigned to read Frederick Buechner’s essay “Dwarves in the Stable.” One-third of the short
My youngest son is the king of questions. His ten-year-old brain and his mouth seem to spin from the moment he opens his eyes in
At 96 years old, Frederick Buechner left this vale of tears and passed, as my Native friends might say, into the spirit world. I should