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Greg Garrett is a novelist, a professor of English at Baylor University, writer-in-residence at the Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest, and a licensed lay preacher in the Episcopal Church. He is the author most recently of The Other Jesus (WJK).
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Greg Garrett is the author of the critically-acclaimed novels Free Bird (chosen by Publishers' Weekly and the Rocky Mountain News as one of the most promising fiction debuts of 2002), Cycling, and Shame, the memoirs Crossing Myself and No Idea, and nonfiction books including The Gospel according to Hollywood, Holy Superheroes, Stories from the Edge: A Theology of Grief, We Get to Carry Each Other: The Gospel according to U2, and One Fine Potion: The Literary Magic of Harry Potter. A past winner of regional and national prizes for fiction and nonfiction, Greg is also a major writer for "The Voice," a contemporary language Bible for the emerging church, and a major contributor to Feasting on the Word, a lectionary commentary, in the areas of theology and homiletics. He writes a regular column on religion and politics for Patheos, and is a frequent contributor to The Thoughtful Christian.
Greg has taught (creative writing, literature, film, and theology) at Baylor University for over twenty years; he is Professor of English there, and has twice won university-wide teaching awards. His students have gone on to success as writers, teachers, scholars, and leaders in the Church. His own vocational service to the Church is as Writer in Residence for the priests and pastors in training at the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest (where he earned his M.Div.), and as a licensed lay preacher based at St. David's Episcopal Church in Austin, Texas. Greg is also a frequent teacher, speaker, and workshop and retreat leader across the United States and overseas.
When he is not traveling, Greg lives in Austin with his sons Jake and Chandler. He loves movies, fiction, comics, music, the outdoors, and Jesus. The other Jesus, that is.
You may contact Greg about readings, lectures and teaching at Greg_Garrett at baylor.edu
You may buy Greg's books at Amazon.com.
Latest Content by Greg Garrett
Greg Garrett: An Open Letter to Joel Osteen
Greg Garrett (TEC)Editor's Note: Don't miss Faithful Citizenship, Greg Garrett's new ebook on politics and Christianity, available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble for $4.99.
Chris Lehmann reported in Salon last week about "America's Night of Hope," Joel Osteen's latest failure to discern the difference between American values and Christian teaching. Lehmann noted the inexorably positive theology Mr. Osteen champions:
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Greg Garrett: A Conversation with Tim Beach-Verhey on H. Richard Neibuhr
Greg Garrett (TEC)Taken with author's permission from Patheos.com
Timothy A. Beach-Verhey is co-pastor, with his wife, Kathy, of Faison Presbyterian Church, in Faison, NC. He also teaches at Mount Olive College and is the author of Robust Liberalism: H. Richard Niebuhr and the Ethics of American Political Life from Baylor University Press. Here, he discusses H. Richard Niebuhr, one of the 20th century's most significant theologians, Richard's even more-famous brother Reinhold, and how the Niebuhrs shaped consideration of religion and politics in their day and might shape it in our own.
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