Gavin Chase

Gavin (he/him) is a theologian, farmworker, and musician who works as the center’s Managing Editor, where he oversees the workflow of God Here & Now Magazine. He is a current graduate student at Princeton Theological Seminary, finding his theological interests at the intersections of ecology, power, and end-of-life care. His current research explores the implications of U.S. evangelical commitments to afterlife and rapture ideologies that do away with materiality and mortality. The project aims at grounding these cultural and theological escapisms by turning to ecological process, namely becoming attentive to death, dying, and decay. Gavin’s writing has been featured in God Here & Now, Yale University’s GCRE, as well as in other academic journals. He also recently composed and performed a multi-track piece titled Antiphonies for the Dying Fowl at the Lewis Center for the Arts (Princeton University).

When not writing, editing, or making music, Gavin can be found tending chickens and sheep at Princeton’s Farminary Project or working with other farms across New Jersey. He resides in Princeton with his wife, Katie, and their bubbly two-year-old, Robin.