Author: Becky Garrison
Becky Garrison’s books include Red and Blue God, Black and Blue Church (John Wiley and Sons, 2006) and Roger Williams’ Little Book of Virtues (E-book, 2013). She also contributes to The Washington Post “On Faith” column and The Guardian, The Revealer, Believe Out Loud, and American Atheist.
The Babylon Bee Posts on Parler
For those unfamiliar with The Babylon Bee, the website bills itself as “the trusted news source for Christian satire.” During my twelve-year tenure with The Wittenburg Door, a now-defunct national religious satire magazine, I learned from my editor, Robert Darden, that the role of a religious satirist is to hold a mirror to the institutional …
This article is available for free to all.Religious Liberty for Me and Thee?
In Freedom We Trust, by Edward M. Buckner and Michael E. Buckner (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2012, ISBN 978-1-61614-644-3) 250 pp. Paperback, $18.00. In researching my e-book Roger Williams’ Little Book of Virtues, I came across a rather telling quote from Professor Romeo Elton that he penned during the Reconstruction Era: “At a crisis when …
The Anti-Gay Legacy of America’s Prophet
When I covered Billy Graham’s Crusade in Flushing Meadows, Queens, back in 2005, I did not realize that I was reporting on the end of an era for the man dubbed “America’s pastor.” Still, given his frail health at that time, I was not surprised when the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) announced that Graham’s …