Reflections from Reverend Chip

Essays about grace in actual life.

Writing about recovery, relationships, faith, Congregationalism, new beginnings, and the questions that remain after easy answers stop working.

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The editorial shape

Three recurring conversations.

The publication is just beginning. As essays are published, this page will feature the newest pieces and link to the full archive on Substack.

Grace in Real Life

Recovery, surrender, spiritual awakening, doubt, boundaries, and the love that meets us before we have language for it.

Relationships Still Becoming

Marriage, covenant, curiosity, repair, familiarity, intentionality, and the courage to keep discovering one another.

Gathering the Harvest

Luke 10, Congregationalism, the NACCC, local community, and honest reports from an unfolding ministry in Northern Virginia.

First essay in progress

In progress

The year my calling changed shape.

A personal reflection on returning to ministry, ordination, marriage, leaving Wisconsin, and beginning again in Northern Virginia.

Also taking shape

What if God is not waiting for you to become someone else?

Grace, recovery, and the limits of religious performance.

One list, one conversation

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