Dr. Daymond Glenn

Dr. Daymond Glenn is the Founder and Senior Pastor of Enth Church, a growing ministry in Portland, Oregon that lives at the intersection of race, faith, hip-hop, and justice. A pastor, public theologian, and scholar-practitioner, his work explores a central question: How do people become the kind of people they become, and how does God form them into the kind of people they were created to be?

Dr. Glenn brings Christian theology into sustained conversation with Black life, culture, human formation, and the social realities people experience and interpret. His work examines how social location shapes interpretation, how interpretation shapes belief, how belief forms people, and how God’s truth revealed in Jesus Christ can become the governing authority for interpreting reality, shaping belief, and forming people. This theological vision grounds Enth Church’s commitment to formation, cultural witness, justice, and restoration.

Before founding Enth Church, Dr. Glenn built a career in higher education through teaching, scholarship, and senior administration, serving in roles that included Professor, Vice President of Student Affairs, and Chief Diversity Officer. His years within educational institutions gave him firsthand experience with both their capacity to transform lives and their limitations in addressing the deeper questions of meaning, being, and purpose. Those questions eventually became central to his pastoral and theological work.

As a scholar and author, Dr. Glenn’s research has examined hip-hop culture, race, education, and the lived experiences of Black males in urban America, with particular attention to culture as a site of meaning-making, hope, possibility, and resistance. He is the author of Critical Condition: Black Males and Multiculturalism in Higher Education and has contributed to scholarship and public conversations on race, hip-hop, education, culture, and faith, including service on the editorial team of the Journal of Hip Hop Studies.

Today, Dr. Glenn’s work bridges the church, academy, and public life. Through Enth Church, he is developing a theological and ministry framework grounded in three foundational pillars: The Prophetic Gospel of Christ, The Black Prophetic Imagination, and Prophetic Hip-Hop Theory. Together, they reveal God’s truth, interpret reality according to God’s truth from the social location of Black life, and explain how interpretations of reality governed by God’s truth shape what people believe, how those beliefs form people, and how that formation becomes embodied as cultural witness in the world.

Dr. Glenn writes, teaches, preaches, and speaks at the intersection of theology, culture, and human formation. His work reflects a conviction that the Church can engage deep theological questions while remaining rooted in the everyday lives of people, forming people who see reality clearly, live according to God’s truth, and participate in God’s work of restoration.

Dr. Glenn holds a bachelor’s degree in Social Science from Portland State University, a master’s degree in Educational Administration from Lewis & Clark College, and a doctorate in Educational Leadership from Lewis & Clark College.