Greg Garrett

Good Trouble (@greggarrett) I’m a writer, teacher, preacher, and activist, and Blessed James Baldwin is one of my great teachers. Tomorrow , after we spring forward, I’ll be talking about my book on James Baldwin with my priest ...

Join is in Austin tomorrow for conversation on James Baldwin! substack.com/@greggarrett...

In conversation with Bart D. Ehrman – Baptist News Global Jesus taught a different kind of altruism, the altruism that is not based only on those socially and biologically related to you.

Bart Ehrman is not a person of faith, but is one of the great scholars of the early Christian world and its relevance. Edited conversation here, full conversation on my Good Trouble Substack. "In conversation with Bart D. Ehrman"https://baptistnews.com/article/in-conversation-with-bart-d-ehrman/

25 Who Inspire | James Talarico James Talarico is one of Good Faith Magazine's "25 Who Inspire."

“I can’t think of anything more un-Christian than stealing from the poor to give to the rich.” 25 Who Inspire | James Talarico goodfaithmedia.org/25-who-inspi...

Talarico for Texas A Matthew 25 Candidate

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Why I'm Boycotting the State of the Union '26 Life Is too Short for Two More Hours of Lies and Hatred

Skip the State of the Union. It will be angry gaslighting and lies for two hours. open.substack.com/pub/greggarr...

Americans at the Abbey | Westminster Abbey American academic Greg Garrett marks the 250th anniversary of America’s birth by considering how the relationship between Britain and America is borne out in the Abbey’s monuments, statues and graves.

In honor of America’s 250th birthday Westminster Abbey asked me to write for the Abbey about Americans buried or recognized there. Dr. King is among them. Let’s hold onto to our freedoms and to this long friendship. #writing #England #America250 #goodtrouble www.westminster-abbey.org/about-the-ab...

What If Turning Point USA Is Wrong about Everything? Thoughts on being added to the Turning Point professor hitlist, Ken Paxton, Kid Rock, and Beagles

What If Turning Point USA Is Wrong about Everything? This week's Substack looks at my being named to Turning Point's Professor Watchlist. open.substack.com/pub/greggarr...

A Conversation with James Talarico on Faith, Justice, and Texas Last year I spoke to James Talarico for Baptist News Global. Many of the details from our conversation have become a part of his stump speech as he runs for the US Senate in Texas.

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Jesse Jackson, Charismatic Champion of Civil Rights, Dies at 84

The Rev. Jesse Jackson was with Dr. King when he was shot in Memphis. At the 1984 Dem Conv, he said, “My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.” Rest in peace, and rise in power, Rev. Keep hope alive. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/u...

Robert Duvall, a Chameleon of an Actor Onscreen and Onstage, Dies at 95

Rest in peace and rise in glory, Mr. Duvall. "My God, Woodrow. It has been quite a party, ain't it?" Augustus McRae, Lonesome Dove. #texasforever "Robert Duvall, a Chameleon of an Actor Onscreen and Onstage, Dies at 95" www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/m...

Professors Are Being Watched: ‘We’ve Never Seen This Much Surveillance’

This is how I ended up on Charlie Kirk's watchlist. An incredible conservative misunderstanding (or deliberate misunderstanding) about how education works. Education is not indoctrination, but an invitation to read, write, and think. Anything else IS indocrination. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...

I sent a draft of a proposal on the importance of diversity—and of a Christian commitment to those on the margins—to my agent. If I am not speaking out for those Jesus called the least of these in Matthew 25 then I am failing my Church and the world. Here endeth the lesson. #goodtrouble #justice

Banging away at the proposal for the diversity book, but this feels both like the pull quote and a way to mark Black History Month. Grateful for the chance to remember, relearn, and recommit. History is in our blood and in our bones and we deny it at our peril. #BlackHistoryMonth #race #justice

Standing up for our neighbors and our nation with a few thousand of my Austin compadres and my fierce beauteous esposa. And @jamestalarico was fire. I interviewed him a year back and was blown away, and every time I hear him I’m just that much more impressed. He is the real deal. Talarico for Texas.

Administration Social Media Posts Echo White Supremacist Messaging

It's no longer the least bit subtle. The worst racism and bigotry on social media is being "echoed" daily by social media in our own government. We are actually paying the salaries of those who write and post these messages of hate that harm America and Americans. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...

If your Jesus makes you buy into hating other Children of God, you have bought some bad Jesus, and it is probably making you sick. @episcopalchurch.bsky.social #faith #justice #jesus #godislove #canontheologian

“The tragedy of humankind isn’t that sometimes a few depraved individuals do what the rest of could never do. It’s that the rest of us hide those hateful things from view, never learning that hate grows stronger and more resistant when it’s pushed underground.” @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social

My dear friend and partner in MS the Rev. Andy Andrews sent me a signed copy of The Barn and reading it while watching and teaching @sinnersmovie is breaking me open. And also remembering Dr. King: injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Don’t let anyone lie to you. Monsters are real.

“Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
Strength to Love, 1963.
#mlk #love #justice #mlkday #canontheologian

Don’t be a Stormtrooper: Moral clarity in story and in life – Baptist News Global I’ve taught Harry Potter at Baylor for some years now, and none of my students has ever idolized Lord Voldemort.

Too many Americans today feel "somehow, safer for the violence, safer for the deprivation of some scapegoat’s rights, safer bowing to some strongman or dark lord whose power, they imagine, extends over them like an umbrella." They should know better, and they do. baptistnews.com/article/dont...

For everybody imagining the romantic life of the writer: I am copy editing the 2026 lead trade book White Lies from Oxford UP. Slow. Word by word. Should not be happening during finals and grades. But also: it is so damn good. This book could change hearts and minds. #writer

My dear friend and colleague Anthony Reddie, Professor of Black Theology at Oxford, and I are returning to Gladstone’s Library in North Wales next year to lead a weekend class on James Baldwin, race, religion, and literature. May 1-3. Please join us in this wondrous place! @orbisbooks.bsky.social

God calls us to be our best selves. Calling something to its best is not hatred; it emerges out of deep love. May God bless America. And may God give us strength and courage to demand it live up to its promises. The saints are coming #NoKings #NoKingsDayOct18th #democracy #freedom #justice #America

If your understanding of Christianity relies on cruelty, hatred, and state-sponsored violence, it is literally anti-Christ.

Here endeth the lesson.

#jesuswept #justice #faith #hope #church #godislove #canontheologian

In conversation with Leyla K. King  – Baptist News Global In her book Daughters of Palestine she writes with skill and empathy about Palestine, faith, family and the immigrant experience.

So grateful for this converasation about faith, family, immigration, prejudice, and hope. "In conversation with Leyla K. King"  baptistnews.com/article/in-c... @baptistnews.com

In conversation with Leyla K. King  – Baptist News Global In her book Daughters of Palestine she writes with skill and empathy about Palestine, faith, family and the immigrant experience.

In conversation with Leyla K. King  baptistnews.com/article/in-c...

Hey friends! Oxford has a proposed cover for my lead 2026 trade book on white supremacy and White ‘Christian’ Nationalism. I like the concept. How does it land for you? #books #writing #racism #justice #history #faith #canontheologian

In conversation with Matthew Boedy  – Baptist News Global Turning Point is just taking the rhetoric and the action to whole new heights, and they have the money to do it.

A q/a with @baptistnews.com and @greg1garrett.bsky.social about my new @wjkbooks.com book on Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA: baptistnews.com/article/in-c...

In conversation with Matthew Boedy  – Baptist News Global Turning Point is just taking the rhetoric and the action to whole new heights, and they have the money to do it.

In case you're one of those people who said "Who is Charlie Kirk?" this is essential reading. In conversation with Matthew Boedy  baptistnews.com/article/in-c...

The Times has only been endorsing presidential candidates since 1860. And yes, this is the first time.