Greg Garrett
@greg1garrett.bsky.social
I’m a writer, teacher, and preacher. Carole McDaniel Hanks Professor of Literature and Culture at Baylor University. Author at OxfordUP, Orbis, Paraclete, HarperCollins, WJK, The Spectator. Canon Theologian at the American Cathedral in Paris. Good trouble!
Grateful to @robertpjones.bsky.social for this great new book and the essential call to "future regret." Now is the time to decide how you'll be remembered and what kind of world we pass on to our ancestors. We'll do a live Substack Sept. 2! @stmartinspress.bsky.social @macmillanpubusa.bsky.social
I spend hours every day consulting news and opinion for my writing, teaching, and speaking. My latest at Substack explains what I trust, what I don't, and why. greggarrett.substack.com/p/i-read-the...
I Read the News Today
Oh Boy!
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So looking forward to this conversation Monday with @joashpthomas.bsky.social about race, justice, colonialism, and my new book from @oxfordup.bsky.social White Lies about racial myths. Please join us on Substack! open.substack.com/live-stream/...
LIVE SOON: White Lies: Dismantling Ten Cultural Myths About Race with Dr. Greg Garrett
Starting Aug 3 at 12:00 PM EDT
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Get ready! I should be going on with @johnfugelsang.bsky.social on @siriusxmprog.bsky.social around 12:10 Central time. May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, oh Lord, my strength and my redeemer. @oxfordunipress.bsky.social @episcopalpeace.bsky.social
Excited for another talk with @johnfugelsang tomorrow on race, faith, and politics. We’ll work in convo abt my new book White Lies from @oupphilosophy.bsky.social Check out John’s new daytime show on Sirius XM, and his book Separation of Church and Hate. It’s so good! @simonandschuster.bsky.social
I hope you’ve seen my conversations with @faithfulpolitics.bsky.social and @robertpjones.bsky.social. My interview with @kutnews.bsky.social is coming. Tomorrow I talk with @goodfaithmedia.bsky.social. And it looks like I’ll talk with @johnfugelsang.bsky.social on July 21. @academic.oup.com
Good hard conversation with @faithfulpolitics.bsky.social last week on my book White Lies from @academic.oup.com. This week I'll be talking race, faith, and hope with author and old friend @robertpjones.bsky.social and author and new friend @johnfugelsang.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=88If...
Greg Garrett on White Lies and the Racial Myths That Protect Power
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Altho Oxford planned a July 1 release date, Amazon is selling White Lies right now. Oh well. Watch for conversations over the next few months and for events this fall. We’ll launch the book Sept 11 at St. James, Austin, so please save the date for a conversation, celebration, and call to justice.
Could not be a better start to media season than to be interviewed about race, faith, and justice by my dear friend Jennifer Staton from KUT News at St. James Episcopal Church in East Austin. Thanks to her for her great questions, to my priest Eileen O’Brien, and to my community of faith!
There are two kinds of Christians in America now. I subscribe to @jamestalarico.bsky.social and his understanding of faith and practice. Let’s go. open.substack.com/pub/greggarr...
James Talarico Is a Serious Christian and a Serious Candidate
It's Time to Start Flipping Tables!
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I'm at a conference at Notre Dame about the anti-democracy forces running amuck in America, and it's bringing together a whole lot of things about racism, injustice, and how we fight back. My latest at Substack: "Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round" greggarrett.substack.com/p/aint-gonna...
Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round
All Roads Lead to the South, Notre Dame, and Democracy
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I’ll be talking about my book White Lies with John Fugelsang on Sirius XM late June. Please pre-order White Lies—preorders are so important—and if despite my urging you haven’t yet read Separation of Church and Hate, jump in. It’s essential reading. @academic.oup.com @johnfugelsang.bsky.social
Thanks to my friend, the Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, for this audio account of the "All Are Neighbors" counter rally to Turning Point USA at Baylor University. It was, as he agrees, one of the great public events of my life as professor and theologian. www.interfaithalliance.org/post/all-are...
All Are Neighbors: How Love Won at Baylor University
A coalition of student groups at Baylor organized a celebration of diversity, inclusion and love (just across campus from a half-empty Turning Point USA event) that saw two prominent ordained LGBTQ+ l...
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It’s taken me a week, but I’m finally getting to revising my proposal for my book on the many attacks on diversity. I’ve written parts of many books here at Gladstone’s Library. It feels important to argue that we are one big beautiful human family, that we worship a God of love, not of whiteness.
Reading Rowan Williams' new book on solidarity put me in mind of some things from my new book White Lies, and of JD Vance and his hateful discourse about blood and soil. Which sounds more formidable in the original German. greggarrett.substack.com/p/solidarity-o… @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
In my new Substack post, some reflections on the Turning Point and "All Are Neighbors" rallies this week--and my remarks. May they be of use! greggarrett.substack.com #faith #love #lovewins #neighbors #canontheologian
My full interview with @johnfugelsang.bsky.social about his NYT bestselling book Between Church and Hate. Please listen in as we talk about white supremacy, reading the Bible, Turning Point USA, and love. Love is everything! greggarrett.substack.com/p/interview-...
Interview with John Fugelsang
Love Is the Message
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Please check out my conversation with @johnfugelsang.bsky.social on faith, justice, and Turning Point USA. More on Substack later! baptistnews.com/article/in-c...
In conversation with John Fugelsang – Baptist News Global
Our conversation was wide-ranging, and this discussion of Turning Point USA is certainly topical, but it is the tip of the iceberg.
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What a crazy week. Just so you know: I’m leaning into the idea that the Pope is a more reliable interpreter of the teachings of Jesus than th President or Vice-President. Over at Substack: greggarrett.substack.com
My colleagues at @academic.oup.com and I are leaning into the forthcoming release and promotion of White Lies. Please reach out if yr community would benefit from a conversation about racial myths and white Christian nationalism. And do please consider pre-ordering! #books #writing
If American forces bomb Iranian power plants and bridges tomorrow, our leaders and military will commit war crimes and we’ll be rightly regarded as an outlaw nation. International law and conventions prohibit the targeting of civilian infrastructure to punish a nation. This is a stupid and evil war.
So grateful to talk with the hosts of "Preacher Handshake" about the ways preaching fits with my writing, teaching, and thirst for justice. I hope you might find this of interest. Happy Easter! open.substack.com/pub/greggarr...
Preaching Justice and Gratitude
My Visit to the Preacher Handshake Pod
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Tia Levings was a #Tradwife before the term became trendy. She knows what it looks like when conservative religious men have dominion over you. And she knows how we recover. "In conversation with Tia Levings" baptistnews.com/article/in-c... #nokings #books #liberation #justice #recovery #faith
In conversation with Tia Levings – Baptist News Global
Once I saw the evangelical church embrace Trump and Falwell and Graham, I knew everything I lived through was coming for the whole countr
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MAGA evangelicals are daily losing their minds about @jamestalarico publicly proclaiming his faith, so they’re publicly proclaiming theirs. But if you’re praying to Jesus that Talarico be stopped by any means necessary, your Jesus is just Donald Trump’s mascot instead of the redeemer of the world.
We’re closing in on the finished publication of White Lies. This week I saw some of the endorsements, which always feels like proof that I actually wrote a book. Many thanks to Anthony G. Reddie,, Malcolm Foley, @robertpjones.bsky.social, and Gen. Ty Seidule. I am ready to start good trouble!
When life gives you lemons, make a whiskey sour. Or record your first podcast on the side of a mountain. I hope you'll find this of use. Start Good Trouble! open.substack.com/pub/greggarr...
Three Things: Trump's War, Voter Rights, Book Banning
A Good Trouble podcast with Greg Garrett
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I did a long hike up into the Sangre de Cristo Wilderness this morning and paused at a waterfall to sing the Trisagion, an ancient prayer. The world is still so full of beauty. Holy Immortal One, have mercy upon us. And: Keep singing. The world needs to hear your voice. Here endeth the lesson.
My latest Substack piece comes from my chapter in progress about assaults on libraries, librarians, and books. What do we lose when we lose freedom to read? An understanding of diverse lives and actual history and so much more. I hope this will start Good Trouble! open.substack.com/pub/greggarr...
