Greg Garrett, Author . Kensington $23 (242p) ISBN 978-0-7582-0139-3
An ex-lawyer travels from his small North Carolina hometown to New Mexico, where he comes to terms with his troubled past in Garrett's entertaining debut. When Clay Forester learns that his father, an artist living in Santa Fe, has just died, he
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Greg Garrett, Author . Westminster John Knox $16.95 (173p) ISBN 978-0-664-23052-4
I
t is easy to see the religious imagery in movies like The Passion of the Christ
and The Mission
, but much more difficult to uncover it in mainstream Hollywood films. Garrett, professor of English at Baylor University and popular author, analyzes
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Greg Garrett, Author . Westminster John Knox $16.95 (129p) ISBN 978-0-664-23204-7
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...
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Greg Garrett, Author . David C. Cook $14.99 (326p) ISBN 978-1-4347-6752-3
Seven years after his acclaimed novel Free Bird
, Garrett, a professor of English at Baylor University, returns to fiction with a family love story that starts as slow as the pace in the Oklahoma farming town where it’s set. The plot picks up...
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Greg Garrett, Baylor Univ., $19.95 trade paper (160p) ISBN 9781602581982
Should evangelical Christians be alarmed by boy wizard Harry Potter? For Greg Garrett, novelist (Free Bird) and Baylor University professor of English , the answer is a resounding no. Rather, they should embrace the stories as affirming the central...
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Greg Garrett. Oxford Univ., $27.95 (264p) ISBN 978-0-19-933590-9
In contemporary America, concern about the afterlife threads through popular books, TV shows, and movies, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to The Hunger Games. Garrett (The Gospel According to Hollywood) offers a comprehensive survey, spanning decades...
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Greg Garrett. Oxford Univ., $24.95 (264p) ISBN 978-0-19-026045-3
Referring to the ubiquitous zombie apocalypse of fiction and film as a “dominant twenty-first century narrative,” Garrett (Entertaining Judgment) argues persuasively that contemporary popular fascination with stories of the living dead reflects our...
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Greg Garrett, Author, Brian D. McLaren, Foreword by . Westminster John Knox $16.95 (141p) ISBN 978-0-664-23217-7
U2 may be the most popular rock band in the world, but unlike the Beatles' John Lennon, they never claimed to be bigger than Jesus. The band does, however, engage several Christian themes in its music. Garrett, an English professor at Baylor...
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Seay Garrett, Author, Chris Seay, Author, Greg Garrett, Author Pinon Press $13.99 (176p) ISBN 978-1-57683-478-7
Pop a red pill and journey with the authors down the rabbit hole to the burgeoning world of Matrix spirituality. Ever since Neo first discovered his true identity in the now-famous 1999 sleeper hit, fans, critics and philosophers have gone over...
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Brennan Manning and Greg Garrett. Zondervan, $15.99 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-310-33900-7
Cowritten by the late Manning (The Ragamuffin Gospel) and Garrett (Free Bird), this novel is more than an updated version of a well-known Bible story. The authors take the essence of the prodigal son saga and put it in the context of a fresh...
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Rowan Williams and Greg Garrett. Church, $14.95 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-1-64065-129-6
This second volume in the In Conversation series provides readers the delightful opportunity to listen in while Williams (Christ the Heart of Creation), former archbishop of Canterbury, and Garrett (My Church Is Not Dying), a novelist and Baylor...
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Greg Garrett. Orbis, $24 (192p) ISBN 978-1-62698-539-1
In this introspective outing, Garrett (Entertaining Judgment), an English professor at Baylor University, frames James Baldwin (1924–1987) as a kind of “prophet of humanity,” who offered penetrating commentary on America’s failures while envisioning
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