Andrew Packman

Andrew Packman is a pastor of Root and Branch Church in Chicago and a doctoral student at the University of Chicago Divinity School.

Articles by Andrew Packman

Blogging Toward Sunday

God makes a home

John 14:23–29

Apr 29, 2013 by Andrew Packman

Jesus’ promise that he and God will come make a home with us sounds like good news to me.

Our so-called secular age purports to have disenchanted us of our pre-modern superstitions. Many of us find God’s stark absence from our daily affairs to be our most prominent experience of the divine.

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Interfaith repertoire

A Bosnian choir sings reconciliation

May 31, 2012 by Andrew Packman

In a place where the religious other quite recently meant the invading army that killed your father, Pontanima's work is remarkable.

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Table manners

Unexpected grace at communion

Dec 28, 2011 by Andrew Packman

In Bosnia, I was reminded that the God who shows up at communion is a God who brazenly seeks us out of the crowd.