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Faith in the Election: In Trump We Trust?
Greg Garrett | June 01, 2016
Christians may not be voting from their belief in biblical principles or church......
Why I Am (Still) An Episcopalian
Greg Garrett | July 31, 2015
I'm not Episcopalian because I think the Church needs me; I am Episcopalian because a......
Why the Inklings Still Matter in 2015: An Interview with...
Greg Garrett | July 01, 2015
In this exclusive interview for Patheos, the Zaleskis explain their attraction to the......
Stepping Bravely Into the Future: A Conversation with...
Greg Garrett | June 24, 2015
"You and I have been called for just such a time as this. This is our vision. This is......
Denomination, Community, and Culture: A Conversation with...
Greg Garrett | June 16, 2015
"Every Sunday people choose us. So I believe it is important to understand why they are......
Hating the Duggars
Greg Garrett | May 27, 2015
As much as I love hating the Duggars and love crowing about how much better I am, I too......
We Are All the Ages We Have Ever Been: An Interview with...
Greg Garrett | May 08, 2015
"I attend an Episcopal church, but I still carry with me attitudes and convictions from......
Living the Questions: Doing Episcopal Theology
Greg Garrett | May 01, 2015
Here's how to read and understand the Bible, the Anglican "middle" way....
False Teacher? Or Just Stupid? A "Christian Heretic"...
Greg Garrett | April 22, 2015
What do you do when you and another fellow Christian really don't agree?...
The Anglican Way: Spiritual and Communal
Greg Garrett | April 17, 2015
It's spiritually important to be reminded that we are part of something bigger than......
What Good Is Religion, Anyway? Why I Am Spiritual -- and...
Greg Garrett | April 01, 2015
I know why "spiritual but not religious" might seem to some people like a very good......
Seeing the World with Resurrection Eyes
Greg Garrett | March 26, 2015
The resurrection story, however we understand it, whether or not we can explain it,......
Not Your Father's Francis: Jon Sweeney's "When Saint...
Greg Garrett | October 02, 2014
Unlike Christians of the past 500 years who focused on doctrine, Francis operated more......
God Made It, I See It, and That Settles It: A Review of...
Greg Garrett | April 30, 2014
"God and the Gay Christian" could convince anyone wrestling with a biblical reason to......
Freestyle Faith: Some Thoughts on Michael W. Waters' New...
Greg Garrett | February 19, 2014
Despite our cultural differences, the Rev. Waters and I are both seeking ultimate......
"Catching Fire": Spirituality and the Hunger Games, Part...
Greg Garrett | December 08, 2013
When we look closely at the sins of the Capitol, they are our sins -- exaggerated, to be......
"Paul and the Faithfulness of God": Magisterial, and Yet...
Greg Garrett | November 24, 2013
What N. T. Wright has given us in his two-volume study is the master class on Paul that......
Taking the Dave Test? Learn to Tell the Truth
Greg Garrett | October 14, 2013
So much of our religious language seeks to insert meaning where there may be no meaning,......
"Don Jon," Christians, and Porn
Greg Garrett | September 30, 2013
Don Jon, like many of us, is all about me and mine, and porn is emblematic of that......
Faithful Fiction: A Review of "A Land Without Sin"
Greg Garrett | September 03, 2013
"A Land Without Sin" treats the great human themes -- love, faith, family, forgiveness,......
Johnny Football, Phil Jackson, and Jesus; Or, Why There Is...
Greg Garrett | August 07, 2013
For the sake of my kids -- of all the kids watching you grab at the high life -- could......
Trayvon Martin, Self-Defense, and Christian Non-Violence:...
Greg Garrett | July 31, 2013
The conclusion reached in the new book Fight is clear and cannot be nuanced: the......
"What Do You Do There?": A Day in the Life at Gladstone's...
Greg Garrett | July 28, 2013
Sometimes a place becomes so important to you that you can't imagine what your life......
Preaching the Social Media Gospel
Greg Garrett | July 15, 2013
Today's church is already wired, and if your parish isn't taking full advantage of all......
Can We Talk About Abortion?
Greg Garrett | July 07, 2013
How might we talk to each other with respect and in Christian love -- even when we......
Thank God for Rowdy Women
Greg Garrett | July 02, 2013
Senator Davis' filibuster was a victory for rowdy women everywhere who know their rights......
When We Talk About Christian Education: A Review of...
Greg Garrett | May 30, 2013
Without active engagement in conversation about the life of faith -- what it is, what it......
Casting Down Our Own Idols: A Review of Elizabeth Scalia's...
Greg Garrett | May 19, 2013
Knowing that the God who loves us totally wants to be loved totally in response offers a......
Who Sinned? The Church Did: A Review of Amy Simpson's...
Greg Garrett | May 07, 2013
When churches ignore or marginalize mental illness, they fail at the most basic......
When the World Explodes Around You, Pray for Peace
Greg Garrett | April 23, 2013
When the world is raging and our thoughts are raging along with it, it's hard to be a......
Brennan Manning: The Prodigal Goes Home
Greg Garrett | April 15, 2013
Working on a final novel together, Brennan re-taught me this great lesson: God already......
Joss Whedon, How Do I Love Thee?
Greg Garrett | April 10, 2013
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" director Joss Whedon knows that we need to be a part of......
Why Republicans Need to Support Gay Marriage: Because It's...
Greg Garrett | April 01, 2013
Yes, Republicans should moderate their views on social issues like gay marriage. But not......
Retelling the Old, Old Story: A Review of "God's Favorite...
Greg Garrett | March 31, 2013
We need to hear the old stories in new ways to understand our own story of life in......
Made of Love: A Review of Cloud Cult's "Love"
Greg Garrett | March 19, 2013
As I listened to the album, I noticed more than once that I was performing that action......
Jesus Is Not Coming Soon
Greg Garrett | March 10, 2013
It's not just Rapture prophets who make Christians look bad. Let's all stop talking......
C.S. Lewis, Human Being: A Review of Alister McGrath's "C....
Greg Garrett | February 28, 2013
Rather than canonizing Lewis, McGrath's meticulously detailed book succeeds in......
One Day More: Spirituality at the 2013 Oscars
Greg Garrett | February 17, 2013
This year's Best Picture films seem to espouse a common spiritual message: You have to......
Making Room for the Thoughtful Ones: A Review of Susan...
Greg Garrett | January 31, 2013
A third to a half of us are introverts, and yet our schools, our businesses, and yes,......
Public Confessions: Good Enough?
Greg Garrett | January 29, 2013
Why do Lance Armstrong, Manti Te'o, and other celebrities, politicians, and athletes go......
Gay and Christian: A Review of "Torn: Rescuing the Gospel...
Greg Garrett | January 21, 2013
If young people view the Church as unsafe, we just might be raising the most......
Unabashedly Episcopalian: An Interview with Bishop Andrew...
Greg Garrett | January 06, 2013
We are a more credible, more authentic voice when we are linked to the ancient faith of......
Inspiring Hope: Top Spirituality & Culture Picks 2012
Greg Garrett | December 18, 2012
From the comeback of a beloved quarterback to the completion of a beloved movie trilogy,......
Christmas Spirit and Ecclesia: What Christmas Movies Can...
Greg Garrett | December 11, 2012
Perhaps the reason we're so drawn to Christmas films year after year is that consciously......
Holy and Human: A Review of "The Saint Who Would Be Santa...
Greg Garrett | November 19, 2012
Before Santa Claus there was St. Nicholas. Who was this patron saint of children, patron......
Radical Orthodoxy?: A Review of "Rob Bell and a New...
Greg Garrett | November 15, 2012
Author James Wellman argues that Rob Bell may be the bellwether of a new American......
Meaning and Imagination: A Review of "The Christian World...
Greg Garrett | November 05, 2012
A great work of great imagination like The Hobbit can entertain us, but it can also......
Becoming an Extremist for Love: A Review of "Making...
Greg Garrett | November 01, 2012
What does a life lived in love and seeking reconciliation with those who differ from us......
Live Together or Die Alone: Damon Lindelof, "Lost," and...
Greg Garrett | October 23, 2012
What the hit TV series Lost shows us about how much we need each other to survive....
Sex in America: A Conversation with Suzy Spencer on Sex,...
Greg Garrett | October 16, 2012
Best-selling true crime author Suzy Spencer leaves one mystery behind for another -- the......
Rowan Williams: Faithful Citizen
Greg Garrett | October 02, 2012
In his new collection of speeches, the Archbishop of Canterbury offers a stirring model......
What Is Essential?
Greg Garrett | September 27, 2012
In essentials, unity; in nonessentials, liberty. In all things, love....
I'm Angry! We're Persecuted! Read This Column!
Greg Garrett | September 18, 2012
Our discourse is as badly broken as our political system. Why? Because we'd rather feel......
Unconventional Thinking: Theological Touchstones for the...
Greg Garrett | September 11, 2012
True holiness comes from placing God first -- and not mistaking faith for patriotism....
Hell on Women and Horses
Greg Garrett | September 04, 2012
If Republicans style themselves the party of Christian values, then why don't they value......
Why We Should Do Politics like Episcopalians
Greg Garrett | August 27, 2012
Could the Episcopal process of "via media," or the middle way, cultivate greater truth......
Saving America 2.0: Calling for a New Future
Greg Garrett | August 15, 2012
A new book, American Dream 2.0, opens up an uncomfortable conversation about change and......
Jesus Hates Guns
Greg Garrett | August 05, 2012
Does the Christian tradition suggest that guns be widely available in America, as those......
Did Liberals Make James Holmes a Mass-Murderer?
Greg Garrett | July 25, 2012
Any suggestion that a cold-blooded killer is God's agent to punish a wicked land is......
Joe Paterno, Football, and False Gods
Greg Garrett | July 18, 2012
The Hebrew Testament proscriptions against false gods strike us as ridiculous and......
Jesus, the Chief Justice, and Justice: A Christian View of...
Greg Garrett | July 10, 2012
Faithful citizenship requires, as Martin Luther King, Jr. said on the last night of his......
Good Conscience: A Response to "Reborn on the Fourth of...
Greg Garrett | July 02, 2012
In Faithful Citizenship, I said something very much like Mr. Mehl-Laituri does in his......
Your Preacher Might Be Gay
Greg Garrett | June 13, 2012
I wish I could tell my grandmother that some days her Jesus and my Jesus seem to be, at......
Queen Elizabeth: Semper Fi
Greg Garrett | June 05, 2012
Why Queen Elizabeth, she of the Jubilee, she of pomp and wealth, is nonetheless a......
Dreams from My Mother: Mitt Romney and the Politics of...
Greg Garrett | May 30, 2012
Is speaking your truth as a politician -- especially when it's not what people want to......
What if Jeremiah Wright is Right?
Greg Garrett | May 22, 2012
Why are American Christians offended to hear that America might be wrong?...
Obama's Theology of Gay Marriage
Greg Garrett | May 16, 2012
In his response on gay marriage, the President cited the Golden Rule, a......
An Open Letter to Joel Osteen
Greg Garrett | May 09, 2012
It's a fine line from bad theology to belief in magic....
Convenient Lies or Appalling Frankness?
Greg Garrett | April 29, 2012
We all live in what British political writer Iain Martin describes as a "culture of spin......
Robust Liberalism: A Conversation with Tim Beach-Verhey on...
Greg Garrett | April 18, 2012
Greg Garrett talks with author Timothy Beach-Verhey about what a 20th-century theologian......
Faithful Citizenship: A Book Excerpt
Greg Garrett | April 11, 2012
What does it mean to be a faithful citizen in the 21st century? Read Chapter One from......
Hunger Games, Politics, and Jesus
Greg Garrett | April 10, 2012
Julie Clawson and Greg Garrett discuss why popular culture and Washington, D.C. are both......
Lock and Load: A Christian Response to Gun Ownership
Greg Garrett | April 04, 2012
In an insanely violent culture that has led to a million American murders since 1968,......
The Hunger Games and Us
Greg Garrett | March 27, 2012
Millions of people are sitting to watch "The Hunger Games." Will anyone stand up, ala......
The Problem with Partisan Religion: A Review of "Hijacked"
Greg Garrett | March 07, 2012
The problem for mainstream American Christianity has become a simple one: it has gotten......
You're Stupid (And I'm 100% Right)
Greg Garrett | February 02, 2012
I believe I'm called to recognize that the essential differences between Republican,......
What about Love? The Two-Fold Commandment and the South...
Greg Garrett | January 26, 2012
In a nation full of Christians, how is it, that at the end of the day, enlightened......
Rick Santorum: 100% Social Conservative, 0% Latter Day...
Greg Garrett | January 18, 2012
Does it matter to you whether or not a candidate for office is Christian?...
Ancient Future Disciples: A Q&A with Becky Garrison
Greg Garrett | January 13, 2012
"How many of us are really prepared to follow the way of this radical rule breaker?"......
Two Movies, An Album, and One Man: The Top Cultural Events...
Greg Garrett | January 06, 2012
Popular columnist Greg Garrett picks the top cultural "events" from 2011 that carried......
What Really Mattered: The Top Political, Religious and...
Greg Garrett | January 03, 2012
Patheos Faith and Politics columnist Greg Garrett offers his top four game-changers of......
Advent: Here Am I
Greg Garrett | December 22, 2011
Mary, that frightened teenager who became Mary, the Mother of God, can teach us, if we......
Let Advent Comfort Ye
Greg Garrett | December 16, 2011
As you think about the Advent season, the Christmas rush, and the new year ahead, where......
Advent: Crying in the Wilderness
Greg Garrett | December 08, 2011
Today in Advent when we hear about John the Baptist, what are we being called to do?...
Reading Christian: "25 Books Every Christian Should Read"
Greg Garrett | November 30, 2011
"25 Books" is, to paraphrase Henry David Thoreau, an attempt not to elevate the new, but......
Famine and Feast: Who Are Our Neighbors?
Greg Garrett | November 22, 2011
I've got several responses as we consider the question of helping others across the......
Famine and Feast: An Interview with ONE's Adam Phillips
Greg Garrett | November 14, 2011
Each of us has a role to play in this fight for the world's poorest people. It's not......
Famine and Feast: Bono, ONE, and the Kingdom of God
Greg Garrett | November 02, 2011
In this month of Thanksgiving, we'll explore the problem of hunger and look to U2's Bono......
Slaying the Monsters: How Interfaith Work Transforms...
Greg Garrett | October 26, 2011
If we want to avoid turning our neighbors into monsters, we must become informed, and......
America Is Scared of Itself
Greg Garrett | October 20, 2011
A new book reveals how the monsters of the American imagination are also the monsters of......
Rick Perry, the Tea Party, and the Failure of Frontier...
Greg Garrett | October 12, 2011
The American frontier individualism ethos that Gov. Perry and the Tea Party embrace is......
God Commands Compassion, Not Evangelism
Greg Garrett | October 05, 2011
Christianity is not about praying in a certain way, or believing a certain thing, or......
Drive, Ryan Gosling, and the Violent Jesus
Greg Garrett | September 28, 2011
The new movie "Drive" illuminates America in the here and now in ways that are......
Becoming American? A Book Review
Greg Garrett | September 19, 2011
A new book shows that American Muslims embrace America and want to be embraced in return......
Who Is My Enemy?
Greg Garrett | September 14, 2011
"We are right to be incensed at terrorist acts -- but wrong to ignore our own violation......
After Anger, Fear, and 9/11
Greg Garrett | September 07, 2011
After a spiritually and otherwise dismal decade, is it time to move forward after the......
Sharing a Table: My Ramadan Dinner
Greg Garrett | September 01, 2011
I finished Ramadan convinced that people of good faith on both sides of the......
Post-9/11 Literature: Darkness and Light
Greg Garrett | August 24, 2011
How popular culture -- especially literature -- has helped us have the post-9/11......
Fighting Islamophobia with Information
Greg Garrett | August 17, 2011
Muslim Americans love America, and are here not to spread their faith, but for the......
Reading the Bible After 9/11
Greg Garrett | August 15, 2011
How to approach the Bible with the best available sources -- and not just those you......
Information, Misinformation, and Missed Information: A...
Greg Garrett | August 03, 2011
In some ways, America is like a big Freshman Comp class: it thinks it already knows what......
Norway, Terror, and Forgiveness: A Decade after 9/11
Greg Garrett | July 27, 2011
If I could give one piece of advice to those grieving in Norway, it would be to take on......
Media, Morality, and Rupert Murdoch
Greg Garrett | July 13, 2011
It seems that Britons who once delighted in titillating stories now are discovering they......
The End of Harry Potter: A View from Britain
Greg Garrett | July 05, 2011
In largely post-Christian Britain, the most popular export since tea has its basis in......
In Defense of Liberalism: An Interview with the Warden of...
Greg Garrett | June 29, 2011
How did Britain's most prominent Prime Minister see the relationship between his......
The Archbishop and the Prime Minister: Religion and...
Greg Garrett | June 22, 2011
How does the government's church criticize the government? How can it serve as a......
Living In the Now and Not Yet: Toward a Theology of...
Greg Garrett | June 15, 2011
What I'd propose as an underlying theology for a 21st-century progressive Christianity......
Spiritual Lessons I Learned At Disney World
Greg Garrett | June 08, 2011
Setting aside all the things I could say about what's spiritually wrong with Disney......
An Open Letter to Joel Osteen
Greg Garrett | June 01, 2011
I've come to believe that your nicey-nicey message and your God of infinite promises is......
"X-Men: First Class" Dealing with Difference
Greg Garrett | May 25, 2011
Why does the X-Men story continue to be spiritually powerful almost fifty years after......
A Chance for a New Creation: An Interview with Bishop Greg...
Greg Garrett | May 23, 2011
One of the youngest and most dynamic bishops in the Episcopal Church reflects on the......
The Founders, Faith, and the American Nation: An Interview...
Greg Garrett | May 18, 2011
Did the Founding Fathers want to create a Christian nation? It depends where you look......
Holy War and Christian Pacifism: Christian Responses to...
Greg Garrett | May 11, 2011
I believe this is where I want to land theologically and spiritually on violence in my......
Christian Responses to the Death of Bin Laden, Part One:...
Greg Garrett | May 03, 2011
Christian realism suggests that sometimes as a nation we must use power in ways that......
What William, Kate, and the Royal Wedding Can Teach Us
Greg Garrett | April 25, 2011
How might the Royal Wedding represent something good and beautiful and spiritual despite......
Seeing the World through Resurrection Eyes
Greg Garrett | April 20, 2011
Do we really believe in the risen Christ? And if we do -- or don't -- how does that......
Lenten Lessons: The Joyful Poverty of St. Francis of...
Greg Garrett | April 13, 2011
St. Francis showed the world -- and generations to come -- what a passionate and......
Lenten Lessons: Spiritual Wisdom from Mary, Mother of God
Greg Garrett | April 06, 2011
No other figure has the range of life experiences with Jesus or testifies so powerfully......
The Other Jesus: A Book Excerpt
Greg Garrett | April 01, 2011
Christianity has often been taught as this equation you solve for x. But if we don't......
Lenten Lessons: The Wisdom of St. Benedict
Greg Garrett | March 30, 2011
The Benedictine way of continually seeking after God offers something we could emulate......
Lenten Lessons: Wisdom from the Desert
Greg Garrett | March 24, 2011
The Desert Fathers and Mothers are sometimes marginalized today as freaks, hermits, or......
How Much Is Enough? Michael Moore, Warren Buffett, and...
Greg Garrett | March 11, 2011
The richest 400 of us now control more wealth than 150,000,000 of us. What is our......
What Would Jesus Cut?
Greg Garrett | March 10, 2011
Can you tell me what in scripture or the tradition makes you think that Jesus would cut......
Glenn Beck, Obama, and God: On Taxes and Spending
Greg Garrett | March 03, 2011
Can secular government have a part in doing God's justice? Can taxes and spending help......
Taxes, Rights, and Responsibilities: Part 2
Greg Garrett | February 24, 2011
As we as a Nation debate what to cut and what to spend, what do the Bible and the......
Seeking a Social Network: The Oscars 2011
Greg Garrett | February 21, 2011
I don't know if Hollywood needs a hug, but I do. And this year, I feel like the Academy......
Taxes, Rights, and Responsibilities: Part 1
Greg Garrett | February 17, 2011
To Tax or Not to Tax: What are my God-given rights and responsibilities as an American......
What Is Your Highest Good?
Greg Garrett | February 10, 2011
When security is our highest good, we tend to live tiny, frightened lives that keep us......
All Jangled and Out of Sorts: Christians and the Mentally...
Greg Garrett | February 03, 2011
In Jesus' ministry, healing the demon-possessed seems to be as important as healing the......
Giving Up Hate Speech Cold-Turkey
Greg Garrett | January 27, 2011
In a world filled with violent and hateful rhetoric, Christians are called to give up......
Christians and Guns
Greg Garrett | January 20, 2011
Love for our neighbors suggests that we should accept restrictions on some absolute......
How Long? Reflections on Arizona and a Broken Nation
Greg Garrett | January 13, 2011
It will take commitment to this call: to relearn community, real community, to remind......
Politics, Religion, and Culture: Top Picks 2010
Greg Garrett | January 06, 2011
Here are some of the pop culture artifacts from 2010 carrying powerful lessons about......
Would Jesus Work on Christmas?
Greg Garrett | December 23, 2010
Is it sacrilegious for the United States Senate to work during the Christmas holidays?...
Merry Christmas? Don't you mean Blessed Advent?
Greg Garrett | December 16, 2010
When we speak a seasonal greeting, I believe the impulse behind it matters more than our......
A Merry Public Christmas
Greg Garrett | December 09, 2010
Insisting that people say "Merry Christmas" won't make people believe what we believe......
This Christmas, Give Presence
Greg Garrett | December 02, 2010
The question this Christmas is still, as always, about choosing between God and Mammon:......
Does God Think America Is Chosen?
Greg Garrett | November 26, 2010
However widespread the belief of American "exceptionalism" might be, can one argue from......
W's Traveling Torture Show
Greg Garrett | November 18, 2010
I love my nation and my family, but I believe that there are some things that should not......
Greed
Greg Garrett | November 11, 2010
How should Christians respond to the inordinate concentration of power and influence......
Winners and Losers
Greg Garrett | November 03, 2010
To make holding on to our own money an absolute value leads us in dangerous theological......
I am Third: First Steps Toward an American Political Ethic
Greg Garrett | October 27, 2010
I Am Third: First Steps Toward an American Political Ethic. Our latest post on Religion......
Don't Tread on Me, American Individualism, and Faithful...
Greg Garrett | October 20, 2010
Harry Potter and Stanley Hauerwas remind us that if all are to be taken care of, if all......
Is There Really a Devil?
Greg Garrett | October 18, 2010
I'd dearly love to blame my faint-heartedness, faithlessness, and fickleness on some Big......
God and Public Life: Faithful Citizenship
Greg Garrett | October 13, 2010
A Baylor University professor introduces a new weekly column on religion and politics....
Nine Years after 9/11: Islam, Glenn Beck, and a Nation...
Greg Garrett | September 08, 2010
On this ninth anniversary of an act of hate, surrounded by recurring acts of hate, I......
How Churches Break: A Response to Rodney Stark
Greg Garrett | August 09, 2010
Are Evangelicals the new mainline? Not so fast . . . An Episcopal lay leader responds to......
Hope Yet for Mainline Denominations
Greg Garrett | July 26, 2010
The history, practice, and theology of mainline Christianity may in fact be better......
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