Jim Packer is the Board of Governors Professor of Theology at Regent College Vancouver. His books, especially Knowing God and Keep in Step with the Spirit, have been an immense help to many Christians over the years. He gave an interview to EN while on a visit to England in September.
EN: Welcome back to Britain. What are you doing on this visit?
JIP: I am celebrating J.C. Ryle, first bishop of Liverpool who died in 1900. The diocese had not existed before he arrived and he was a classic evangelical bishop, who deserves to be remembered as a great man.