Becky Garrison
Becky Garrison is a satirist/storyteller whose most recent book is Roger Williams’s Little Book of Virtues (Wipf & Stock, 2020). Also, she edited Love, Always: Partners of Trans People on Intimacy, Challenge and Resilience (Transgress Press, 2015). Her other six books include 2006’s Red and Blue God, Black and Blue Church (PW, starred review).
Posts by Becky Garrison
Doubt, Marriage, and the NakedPastor
In his latest book, Til Doubt Do Us Part: When Changing Beliefs Change Your Marriage, former pastor and cartoonist David Hayward (aka NakedPastor) explores... Read More
Racist Too Long: Measuring White Christianity
THE ELECTION OF DONALD J. TRUMP as president of the United States brought to the forefront a politicized form of Christianity that combines white... Read More
Racist Too Long: Measuring White Christianity
Ed. Note: This is an excerpt of a longer interview that will appear in the September/October issue of the Humanist magazine. Read the full... Read More
Let’s Be Blunt: Cannabis Research Isn’t Where It Should Be
ACCORDING TO HISTORICAL ACCOUNTS and archeologists, cannabis has been used as medicine in China for over 5,000 years. Currently, thirty-three US states and the... Read More
The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism
BY KATHERINE STEWART BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING, 2020 352 PP.; $28.00 The mainstream media depicts the religious right as a monolithic group of evangelicals focused on... Read More
Let Us Say: It’s Time to End the National Prayer Breakfast
President Donald Trump strutted onto the stage at the National Prayer Breakfast last week, brandishing newspapers with bold headlines declaring him acquitted in the... Read More
What It Means to Be Moral: Why Religion Is Not Necessary for Living an Ethical Life
BY PHIL ZUCKERMAN COUNTERPOINT PRESS, 2019 400 PP.; $28.00 In his new book, What it Means to Be Moral: Why Religion is Not Necessary... Read More