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...

I feel like I read a lot of books this year. But it would be more accurate to say that I read parts of a lot of books this year. Graduate...

We don’t understand each other. And I’m not sure how hard we’re trying. This is not a post about athletes or anthems, flags or protests....

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...

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...

[NOTE: This is a follow-up piece to my initial response to the reactions to Hillsong’s decision to decline making a public statement on...

So, Hillsong declined to publicly declare a position on ‘LGBT issues’. And the internet was awash with opinions. Some shook their heads...

Resolutions are powerful things. We feel all the energy of a new year rushing forward, washing over past failures or shortcomings. I like...

For those already familiar with theologian N. T. Wright, this talk will seem a bit elementary– and much shorter!– than his normal...