The Enlightenment’s Lie About the Basis of Human Rights
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...
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Glenn Packiam
- Dec 23, 2019
- 5 min
What I Read In 2019 (And Why)
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...
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Glenn Packiam
- Sep 9, 2019
- 4 min
The Table You Choose…
There are two tables set before us. Nowhere in the Gospels is the contrast between the banquets—the kingdom of God and the kingdoms of...
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Glenn Packiam
- Aug 16, 2019
- 2 min
Two Ways to Be Lost, One Way Home
The story is commonly called the parable of the prodigal son, but that is too narrowly focused. It might be more aptly called The Tale of...
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Glenn Packiam
- Jul 28, 2019
- 3 min
When God Asks a Question…
God found Hagar by a well in the wilderness. She had stopped at a spring for what could have been one last drink. And then an angel of...
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Glenn Packiam
- Jul 22, 2019
- 3 min
Two Ways to Study Worship With Me
Want to study about worship with me? OK, that’s a funny way to say it. But from time to time, people ask when and where I’ll be teaching...
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Glenn Packiam
- Feb 13, 2019
- 3 min
Using God’s Wildness Against Him: When Saying ‘Aslan is Not a Tame Lion’ Goes Wron
One of the more brilliant things C. S. Lewis does in the Chronicles of Narnia series is to take a famous line from the first book he...
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Glenn Packiam
- Mar 30, 2018
- 5 min
The Problem of Sin and the Power of the Cross
In our world, sin is seen as behaving badly, or breaking some arbitrary code of morality. But the Bible talks about sin in a different...
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Glenn Packiam
- Mar 24, 2018
- 6 min
On “Practical Theology” and My Experience at Durham
Durham Cathedral, built in 1093. When I first began, I was as giddy as a schoolboy, albeit a 35-year old schoolboy, back in September of...
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Glenn Packiam
- Jan 19, 2018
- 6 min
‘How to Think’: A Summary
The goal of the book is to help us learn to interrogate our instincts and intuitions by examining the social, emotional, linguistic, and...
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Glenn Packiam
- Dec 27, 2017
- 2 min
Seven Books I Read and Loved in 2017
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...
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Glenn Packiam
- Sep 25, 2017
- 5 min
Seek First to Understand: Can Public Discourse Be Saved?
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....
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Glenn Packiam
- Feb 6, 2017
- 5 min
What Does It Mean to Be a Prophetic Church?
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...
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Glenn Packiam
- Jan 31, 2017
- 1 min
“Still”: A 5- Day Devotional
Earlier this year, Integrity Music release a 5-day devotional that I had written to accompany a wonderful new instrumental album called...
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Glenn Packiam
- Jan 28, 2017
- 1 min
Race and Human Flourishing: My Talk at Evangelicals for Life
On January 26th, 2017, I had the honor of presenting a short keynote at ‘Evangelicals for Life’ in Washington, D. C. The event was hosted...
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Glenn Packiam
- Jan 19, 2017
- 4 min
Building the Currency of Trust, Pt. 2
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...
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Glenn Packiam
- Jan 18, 2017
- 4 min
The Currency of Christian Leadership
Where do leaders in churches and Christian ministries gain their authority to lead? It is tempting to simply say, ‘From God!’ There is,...
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Glenn Packiam
- Jan 12, 2017
- 4 min
How the Past Can Rescue the Present
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...
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Glenn Packiam
- Jan 3, 2017
- 3 min
Freedom and Vision: Building a Collaborative Team Culture
As leaders who care about the people we lead, we tend to vacillate between being empowering of our team and being directive with them....
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