Glenn Packiam

Last week, a dear friend who is an avid reader and one of the most thoughtful Christians I know, sent me a copy of a book he had just...

by Glenn and Holly Packiam For well over a decade now, we have taken a few days either at the end of December or at the beginning of...

[Caveat Lector: I offer these musings as very much a work in progress. I reserve the right to redact or revise any of what follows-- I...

2020—What a year it’s been, huh? The trouble is, we have not assurance that 2021 will be much better. Yet here we are waiting. Waiting...

Why do we care about injustice? Because God’s new creation has begun in us.

How do pastors decide what to say about current events and social issues? As the story goes, both Karl Barth and Billy Graham said...

What do we do with the pain of the world? We enter in it and groan. That is what the Son of God did. And that is what the Spirit of God...

It is all the rage to talk about how oppressive Christianity is and has always been. It’s even more troubling to see some Christians...

2019 was a good year for reading. I managed to read about 30 books this year, which may be a personal high, but there were several...

The goal of the book is to help us learn to interrogate our instincts and intuitions by examining the social, emotional, linguistic, and...

What does it mean to be prophetic? The word is thrown around a lot, but depending on which circles you run in, it means something quite...

This is a follow-up post to the previous one on the ‘Currency of Christian Leadership’. In that post, I made the case that the Old...

Where do leaders in churches and Christian ministries gain their authority to lead? It is tempting to simply say, ‘From God!’ There is,...

At the start of new year, most of our attention is focused on what lies ahead. It’s really one of the few times we take our eyes of the...

I’m blushing. I don’t write like this. I don’t like to talk like this in public. But when the public conversation is about a book and a...

Follow your dream. Write your story. Live an epic life. I’m sorry, but I’m not buying it. This has long been the fodder of daytime talk...

As 2014 comes to a close, I’m thinking about the books that inspired me, enlightened me, challenged me, and fired my imagination this...

As the buzz would have it, there is much to find troubling about Ridley Scott‘s Exodus: Gods and Kings. Mainstream reviewers are...