Articles By: Becky Garrison

My books include “Starting from Zero with 0: Building Sustainable, Creative Ministries on a Shoestring” (Seabury Books, 2010) and "Jesus Died for This?: A Satirist's Search for the Risen Christ" (Zondervan, August 2010). My other writing credits include work for The Guardian, (UK), Washingtonpost.com (On Faith), Sojourners/God's Politics blog, The High Calling, Geez, Killing the Buddha, US Catholic, The Revealer, and The Wittenburg Door.

Thank God for Ricky Gervais

Much of the buzz following the 2011 Golden Globes centered around host Ricky Gervais’ delicious skewering of faux celebrity culture. But I’d like to thank Gervais for standing up and proclaiming, “Thank You to God for Making Me an Atheist.” Someone needed to skewer those “Christians” who...

January 6th, 2012 | Arts, Featured | Read More

Episcopal Evangelism Emerges at Yale

While programs designed to train missional pioneers remain very much works-in-progress in most dioceses and seminaries, students infused with an Episcopal-entrepreneurial spirit are presently taking the initiative to enhance the missional aspects of their seminary education by forming the Episcopal...

December 7th, 2011 | Featured, Social Justice | Read More

The Dangers of Disconnecting from Community

Editor’s note: Becky’s interview was originally published on the God’s Politics blog. Jonathan, you were quoted in a Christianity Today article about church planters citing that you don’t think that this phenomenon of former pastors becoming full-time conference speakers and...

June 28th, 2011 | Books | Read More

“Faith for People Who Don’t Like Religion”: Interview with Frank Schaeffer

In my ongoing quest to find a third way between the extremes espoused by the Religious Right and their secular counterparts, I came across Frank Schaeffer’s latest Patience With God. His insights afforded me considerable food for thought. How do Rick Warren, C.S. Lewis, and your father represent the...

March 24th, 2011 | Books, Featured | Read More

So Dang Jesus-y: Sara Miles’ Jesus Freak

Becky Garrison’s interview with Sara Miles was originally posted on the God’s Politics blog. In Mark Oestreicher’s review of Sara Miles’ latest book Jesus Freak, he describes Sara as one of those rare people who would make conservatives nervous because of her liberalism, and make liberals...

March 7th, 2011 | Books, Featured, Social Justice | Read More

Changing the Script on Political Theology

When I picked up a copy of Daniel Schultz’ book Changing the Script: An Authentically Faithful and Authentically Progressive Political Theology for the 21st Century, I was intrigued by the way he used the work of Old Testament scholar and theologian Walter Brueggemann to form a progressive political...

March 1st, 2011 | Social Justice | Read More

“Soul Freedom” versus “Christian Nation”

As part of my research for my book Jesus Died for This?, I’ve been emailing Bill Leonard, Dean of Wake Forest Divinity School to glean his insights pertaining to my ancestor Roger Williams’ lost legacy. While one can’t simply transfer Williams’ pre-Enlightenment ideology to a society that’s...

February 15th, 2011 | Essays, Featured | Read More

Speaking Christian with Marcus Borg

This interview first appeared on the God’s Politics blog. While I was in Portland, I got a chance to connect for coffee with Marcus Borg, Canon Theologian at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral and Hundere Chair of Religion and Culture in the Philosophy Department at Oregon State University until his retirement...

January 4th, 2011 | Books, Featured | Read More

“Jesus” for Sale

(Editor’s Note: Becky Garrison is awesome. Sometimes, she sends us stuff to publish, and we feel awesome, too. This previously appeared at Killing the Buddha, which is also awesome.) God may not have appeared to Mother Theresa, but He needs to promote His book. For the uninitiated, Book Expo...

August 14th, 2010 | Essays, Featured | Read More