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-...
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...
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...
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
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...
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!
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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"baptistnews.com/article/in-conversation-...
“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...
Skip the State of the Union. It will be angry gaslighting and lies for two hours. open.substack.com/pub/greggarr...
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? This week's Substack looks at my being named to Turning Point's Professor Watchlist. open.substack.com/pub/greggarr...
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...
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...
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.
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.
