Why We Work for Justice
Why do we care about injustice? Because God’s new creation has begun in us.
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Glenn Packiam
Jun 9, 20204 min read
Preaching in the Cultural Moment
How do pastors decide what to say about current events and social issues? As the story goes, both Karl Barth and Billy Graham said...
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Glenn Packiam
Jun 5, 20203 min read
When God Groans
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...
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Glenn Packiam
Mar 14, 20205 min read
Guidelines for Gathering in Homes During the Coronavirus Pandemic
Written and compiled by Jason Jackson March 14, 2020 Guidelines for Gatherings in Homes UPDATE: The President of the United States, the...
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Glenn Packiam
Mar 2, 20204 min read
“Blessed Broken Given”— Chapter Preview Videos and Discussion Questions
Over the past few months, friends have told me that they are reading “Blessed Broken Given” with their small group at church or with a...
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Glenn Packiam
Feb 25, 20203 min read
What’s the Deal with Ash Wednesday?
What’s the deal with Ash Wednesday? Let me say up front that you don’t have to mark this day. It’s a Christian tradition that goes back...
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Glenn Packiam
Feb 10, 20204 min read
Reflections on Love, Sacrifice, and the Gospel of “Frozen 2”
There are two ways of doing theological reflection on popular art like movies. One way is to try to uncover the “operating theology” in a...
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Glenn Packiam
Jan 12, 20202 min read
How Jesus Re-shapes Power
Power comes in many forms. We can be in a position of power over others because of our job title, our relational network, our expertise,...
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Glenn Packiam
Dec 31, 20195 min read
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, 20195 min read
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, 20194 min read
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, 20192 min read
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, 20193 min read
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, 20193 min read
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, 20193 min read
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, 20185 min read
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, 20186 min read
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, 20186 min read
‘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
Sep 25, 20175 min read
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, 20175 min read
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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