Greg Garrett

I saw The Avengers (British title Avengers Assemble) last week with a multi-ethnic audience in Edgeware Road, London. They went gaga over it, as have critics (it is one of the best-reviewed films of the past year, with a 95 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a 97...

According to CNN, "Christ is missing" from The Voice, the new contemporary language Bible from Thomas Nelson Publishers, while Bob Smietana's article for Religion News Service, which has appeared in USA Today and in other newspapers around the world opens with this lede: "The name Jesus...

"What's the appropriate soundtrack for kids killing kids?" Entertainment Weekly asks in regard to the soundtrack for the highly-anticipated movie The Hunger Games that premieres in the U.S. on Friday, March 23. If you're a grown-up, maybe you're appalled by that question. And maybe you'll be even more...

Rowan Williams, the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury, announced from London this morning that he was stepping down from his post as head of the Anglican Communion -- almost 80 million Christians -- at the end of 2012. He'll be returning to the classroom and to academia as Master...

Thousands of people are gathering right now in London's Trafalgar Square, just down the road from me, for the gala world premiere of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2," the final film in the most-popular film series of all time. This is, as the film's advertising...

I've been reflecting over the past week -- and writing over at Patheos -- about possible Christian responses to the execution of Osama bin Laden. As I watched the TV news, read Twitter feeds, read newspapers and magazines, checked my Facebook feed, I observed jubilation, righteous assurance, ambivalence,...

I can't speak for all writers, but I can say I tend to be thin-skinned. Although I strive for healthier practice, I still often hear the one critical voice standing in an approving crowd. And when you write things that lovingly but honestly ask hard questions about religious beliefs and...

Many Americans, particularly people in their teens, twenties, and thirties, have a virulent negative reaction to Christianity as they understand it. It seems to them to be too narrowly focused on piety and individual salvation, too judgmental and homophobic, too directly identified with a particular far-right political agenda....