Slow Faith

Conversations with Chuck DeGroat

Intentional Thoughts on Faith

Learning how to live here.

Essays and entries on faith, fun, and feelings in your thirties.

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. (1 John 3:1)

I study reality (psychology, neuroscience, sociology, politics, philosophy, creative advice, history) and connect it to theology.

Theology is more like poetry than geometry. Theology is "vile for the sake of the gospel" (so says my friend, John Wesley). Aspiring to a vile poetics.

For people who know life's too short for soundbites.

A newsletter about navigating the intersection of church and culture

For the light-chasers, beauty-seekers, and slow art enthusiasts. Humanity > AI.

Written by a systemic therapist, coach, author, DMin student, and egalitarian in the Bible Belt contemplating what God is doing in the spaces within and between us.

Discovering a God who loves you.

Thoughts on contemplative activism & holistic spiritual formation in a malformed world.

Meredith Lee and I were sitting on the back deck a few weeks ago, she was telling me a story and stopped to ask, What are you looking at?" I guess I'd left eye-contact or something. I answered, "Everything."

Assorted thoughts & links, mostly on New Testament studies, Anglican Christianity, and gay Christian whatnot

Decoding the culture swaying American Christian identity.

For the believers, the doubters, the halfway in or outers. Saying the quiet part out loud.

essays + episodes on the communal life, where we explore the intersection of faith, belonging, and being an actual person