Greg Garrett

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  Crossing Myself : A Story Of Spiritual Rebirth (Revised)

  $23.95

  Greg Garrett’s memoir was originally self-published in 2005, and he has recently updated it. The story of his (multiple) suicide attempts and his efforts to find his way out of a spiral of depression, this is an honest and deeply hopeful book that will speak to those who have come through depression and those who still struggle with it. Greg says: “This is the book that made Rowan Williams want to be my friend, and for that and many other things, I’ll always treasure it.”

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  My Church Is Not Dying

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  Evangelism for a world that hates evangelism, but needs the church

  * The unfolding vision of a church stepping into the future, instead of dwelling
  in the past

  The old way of “being church”-measured by political influence, money, and congregants
  in the pews-may indeed be vanishing, but it is being replaced by something new and
  beautiful for those with the eyes, ears, heart, and soul to experience it.
  Prolific author Greg Garrett reminds Episcopalians of the many gifts that our tradition
  can offer a doubting and hurting world. He reveals a church that values intellect, beauty,
  diversity, and community, and promotes thoughtful engagement with questions of faith,
  ethics, and community. This church espouses a generous orthodoxy, welcoming left
  and right, mystic and doubter. It values education, social justice, and engagement with
  literature and culture. And in opposition to the radical individualism espoused by most of
  American Protestantism, it offers the unique gift of a tradition shaped by English culture
  that believes the individual is a part of her or his community-not in opposition to it.

  For members of the Episcopal Church, laypeople seeking a deeper understanding of
  faith and the Episcopal/Anglican tradition, and seekers wondering about a way of being
  Christian that isn’t dogmatic, doesn’t offer judgment or divorce them from the beauty they
  already sense in their lives.

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  Prodigal : A Ragamuffin Story

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  Jack Chisholm is on top of his game: lead pastor of a big church in a big city, thousands of members, a huge physical plant. His books sell millions of copies, and he is a public figure, sharing his life’s philosophy: ‘We have got to do better.’ He is also living a lie—nobody could be as holy as his congregants think he is, and like all of us, he has his share of faults, flaws, sins. When one of these comes to light, the board of deacons gives him a choice: walk away or be publicly shamed. They wouldn’t dare, he thinks. I mean too much to this church. So he laughs at them and refuses to even acknowledge what he has done. And they fire him, publicly, messily. Jack loses everything overnight: his church, his friends, his money, his reputation, and his family. His wife, Tracy, humiliated and disgusted with Jack’s recklessness and unwillingness to take responsibility, takes the church’s buy-out and their daughter Alison and goes into hiding. Jack has been a pastor his entire adult life. His only marketable skill—proclaiming the Word of the Lord—is now valueless. How to live? What to do? Take a minimum wage job? Give up? Kill himself? He falls into a bottle and hopes it all will blow over. At last, out of money, out of hope, the impossible happens. His father arrives to rescue him with these simple words: Come home. Thus begins Jack’s journey back . . . back to himself, back to hope, back to his Father.

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  Other Jesus : Rejecting A Religion Of Fear For The God Of Love

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  According to recent surveys, many Americans associate the label “Christian” with judgmental attitudes, hypocrisy, fear of hell, and a committment to right-wing politics. Author Greg Garrett suggests another way, arguing that a faith that focuses solely on personal morality and the afterlife misses much of the point of Jesus’ message.

  Popular author Greg Garrett offers seekers a new “Christianity 2.0:” a religion centered not on judgmental attitudes, but on loving each other and loving God, or as Garrett puts it, “love, where the rubber meets the road, where faith meets the world.”

  Personal and moving, the book relates the author’s personal experience growing up in–and leaving–a disapproving conservative church and then finding his way back to a different kind of Christian community, which is communal, missional, just, and loving. Garrett draws upon popular culture to illustrate his spiritual points, showing how authentic Christian truth can be found in unlikely places.

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  Stories From The Edge

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  This is not a book about the stages of grief, or the 10 steps to overcoming it. In fact, it’s more about suffering in general than bereavement in particular. Garrett (The Gospel According to Hollywood) draws on a summer he spent doing clinical pastoral education-a kind of boot camp for hospital chaplains-to discuss age-old theodicy questions. The book challenges certain myths that American Christians have swallowed about God-e.g., that God is a transactional ATM who is obligated to dispense good things to the faithful, or that it’s Satan, not God, who makes rotten things happen. Some of these myths are eloquently debunked, while others-such as Americans’ persistent faith in consumerism and their ability to “buy” health and happiness-deserve more ink. Garrett scores points with the powerful stories of the hospital patients he prayed alongside as well as his own autobiographical discussions of dealing with severe depression. Christians who are looking for theologically nuanced ways of thinking about suffering can learn much from this brief book.

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  Holy Superheroes : Exploring The Sacred In Comics Graphic Novels And Film (Expan

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  Spider-Man. Batman. The X-Men. The Fantastic Four. Comic books and the characters they have spawned have become twenty-first-century mythology. Greg Garrett helps us see the profound depth that can be found in the glossy, fast-paced, and often violent world of comics, graphic novels, and the films they inspire. The book features extensive discussions of Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, and the X-Men. It includes an appendix with descriptions of twenty-five comics and graphic novels Garrett recommends for discussion of spirituality and comics.

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