"We began to… say the Nicene Creed." That decision changed everything for pastor and researcher Glenn Packiam, when a 2006 scandal rocked his Colorado Springs church. In this Unfolding Short Story, the Barna Group scholar and host of The Resilient Pastor podcast recounts how repeating the Creed each week knit a fractured congregation back together, and how its ancient words still steady believers facing today's confusion and corruption.

Want to dig deeper? Check out Glenn's new book What's a Christian, Anyway?: Finding Our Way in an Age of Confusion and Corruption.