Hi there. I’m Greg Glatz.
I’ve spent my life exploring what happens when faith, imagination, and the courage to change come together.
I’m a minister, spiritual explorer, teacher, and longtime change-maker who loves helping people and communities discover what is trying to emerge in them. My approach to life and ministry is deeply mystical, grounded in the Christian tradition but open to the mystery that reaches beyond our familiar categories.
I live in the Metro Vancouver area with my wife, Kimiko Karpoff—a writer, photographer, energy worker, and diaconal minister. Together we share our home with a nephew and two dogs.
These days, I’m particularly drawn to what Cynthia Bourgeault calls the imaginal realm: a way of perceiving that invites us beyond ordinary imagination into a deeper dimension of reality, where symbol, intuition, story, and spiritual experience can become ways of knowing. Her work, along with that of Paul R. Smith and his vision of an evolving, integral Christianity, has profoundly influenced my understanding of faith.
I was born and raised in Winnipeg and have lived and worked in Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, and the Metro Vancouver area. I was ordained in the North American Baptist Conference in 1993 and admitted into ordered ministry in the United Church of Canada in 2015.
I completed my dissertation, The Great Co-Mission: How Communities Can Transform Churches, Mission, and Discipleship, in 2014 after doing my doctoral coursework with Leonard Sweet at George Fox University. Randy Woodley served as my primary dissertation advisor.
For more than 35 years, I’ve helped churches and nonprofit organizations navigate change, reimagine their mission, and find new ways forward. I’m fascinated by the space between what has been and what wants to become—especially when that space feels uncertain, disruptive, or full of possibility.
And then there’s music. I’ve played lead guitar in two bands, hosted talk radio in Winnipeg and Calgary for ten years, and remain convinced that some things are better understood through rhythm, story, and sound than through words alone.
Perhaps all of these threads—ministry, organizational transformation, mysticism, music, and storytelling—are really expressions of the same calling:
to help us become more awake to what is possible
If you’d like me to preach, speak, lead a conversation, or explore the edges of spirituality and transformation with your community, I’d love to hear from you.
Rev Dr Greg Glatz
gregglatz.com 