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These Lost Cause myths are weaponized to support white supremacy and white Christian nationalism.
Greg Garrett
American writer and preacher; Carole McDaniel Hanks Professor of Literature and Culture at Baylor University; author of books on faith, politics, race and narrative, and of novels; canon theologian at the American Cathedral in Paris.
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Lost Cause myths are used to support white supremacy and white Christian nationalism.
These Lost Cause myths are weaponized to support white supremacy and white Christian nationalism.
greggarrett.substack.comSaid 16 Oct 2026This on korrents
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Capital punishment, torture and debasement are morally wrong and also bad policy.
Because of my Christian faith, I oppose capital punishment, torture, and debasement. But those things are also bad policy.
greggarrett.substack.comSaid 10 Oct 2026This on korrents
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From one piece A Live-Streamed Execution Is UnChristian, UnAmerican, and Unwise 3 beliefs · greggarrett.substack.com
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Public executions are intended not just to extinguish a perceived threat, but to sow terror.
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If you are a person who professes Jesus, it is never a good choice to side with the Empire, to identify with the Empire, let alone to platform the kinds of cruelty the Empire always does.
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Because of my Christian faith, I oppose capital punishment, torture, and debasement. But those things are also bad policy.
20 August
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Autocrats depend on blaming marginalized folks for society’s ills, and they rely on fear to maintain their positions and prestige.
Book Banning, Libraries, and Writersgreggarrett.substack.com
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From one piece I Read the News Today 2 beliefs · greggarrett.substack.com
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Gold-standard journalism still exists at outlets such as the BBC, NPR, the Guardian and the New York Times.Their words
Gold-standard journalism still exists: BBC, NPR, the Guardian, the New York Times, the reporting of the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC News, the Atlantic Monthly.
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korrents.com
Good reporting is the core of any opinion.Their words
Good reporting matters because it is the core of any opinion—mine, yours, or someone else’s.
17 August 2020
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Gone with the WindTheir words
It’s really important to identify these two duelling mythologies that Gone with the Wind presents, so that we can have a conversation about this powerful and, honestly, really beautiful film.
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Lost Cause myths are used to support white supremacy and white Christian nationalism.
These Lost Cause myths are weaponized to support white supremacy and white Christian nationalism.
The Cruelest Monument Said 16 Oct 2026
Capital punishment, torture and debasement are morally wrong and also bad policy.
Because of my Christian faith, I oppose capital punishment, torture, and debasement. But those things are also bad policy.
A Live-Streamed Execution Is UnChristian, UnAmerican, and Unwise Said 10 Oct 2026
Christians should never side with the Empire or give a platform to its cruelty.
If you are a person who professes Jesus, it is never a good choice to side with the Empire, to identify with the Empire, let alone to platform the kinds of cruelty the Empire always does.
A Live-Streamed Execution Is UnChristian, UnAmerican, and Unwise Said 10 Oct 2026
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Public executions are meant to sow terror, not only to remove a threat.
Public executions are intended not just to extinguish a perceived threat, but to sow terror.
A Live-Streamed Execution Is UnChristian, UnAmerican, and Unwise Said 10 Oct 2026
Autocrats depend on blaming marginalized people and on fear to keep their power.
Autocrats depend on blaming marginalized folks for society’s ills, and they rely on fear to maintain their positions and prestige.
Book Banning, Libraries, and Writers Said 20 Aug 2026
Good reporting is the core of any opinion.
Good reporting matters because it is the core of any opinion—mine, yours, or someone else’s.
I Read the News Today Said 9 Aug 2026
Gold-standard journalism still exists at outlets such as the BBC, NPR, the Guardian and the New York Times.
Gold-standard journalism still exists: BBC, NPR, the Guardian, the New York Times, the reporting of the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC News, the Atlantic Monthly.
I Read the News Today Said 9 Aug 2026
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One of the reasons that I wanted to recommend Get Out to your readers is that, like Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman, it’s emblematic of the kind of film where filmmakers of colour are taking traditional Hollywood filmmaking techniques and genres and tropes and turning them on their heads.
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Recommends 12 Years a Slave
What is essential about 12 Years a Slave is that it shows the torture and sexual violence of slavery.
fivebooks.com 17 Aug 2020
Recommends Do the Right Thing
Spike Lee is one of the most important American filmmakers and Do the Right Thing is one of the most important American films of the last 50 years.
fivebooks.com 17 Aug 2020
Show 6 more
Recommends In the Heat of the Night
In the Heat of the Night contains a couple of cultural touchpoints that were so radical for 1967 that I always want to let audiences know about them, because both of these films seem a little bit tame to us, 50+ years later.
fivebooks.com 17 Aug 2020
Mixed on Gone with the Wind
It’s really important to identify these two duelling mythologies that Gone with the Wind presents, so that we can have a conversation about this powerful and, honestly, really beautiful film.
fivebooks.com 17 Aug 2020
Recommends The Miniature Wife
There are a number of different kinds of stories collected in The Miniature Wife.
fivebooks.com 30 Oct 2017
Recommends World War Z
One of the reasons I chose World War Z is that it is a novel that bridges the gap between pulp and high literature.
fivebooks.com 30 Oct 2017
Recommends The Road
I noticed that my book Living with the Living Dead was reviewed on a zombie studies site the other day, and they were somewhat indignant that I included The Road on the grounds that there are no zombies in this book.
fivebooks.com 30 Oct 2017
Recommends I Am Legend
But the interesting thing about I Am Legend is that it is an apocalyptic survival story.
fivebooks.com 30 Oct 2017
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