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Becky Garrison

Becky Garrison contributes to a range of outlets including The Humanist, Killing the Buddha, American Atheist, Beverage Master, Grapevine, and Fresh Toast. Her eight books include Roger Williams’s Little Book of Virtues (Wipf & Stock, 2020), and Red and Blue God, Black and Blue Church (Jossey-Bass, 2006).

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Purity Culture and Jeffrey Epstein

Megyn Kelly’s comments about “liking” 15-year-old girls fit well within a “purity” worldview
Editor’s note: This post mentions child sexual assault and underage marriage. Please be advised. International media outlets and even an actual teenager slammed attorney and media personality Megyn…
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Four survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's orbit hold up pictures of themselves as teenage girls in World Without Exploitation's ad calling for Congress to pass a measure to force the Department of Justice to release the Epstein Files
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2021 National Prayer Breakfast: A Kinder Gentler Christian Capitalism

The 2021 National Prayer Breakfast (NPB), held annually the first Thursday in February and attended by every sitting President since its founding in 1953, reverted this year to dishing out their faith…
Becky Garrison
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Religion Dispatches

Books to Give this Holiday Season to Help Understand the World We’ve Found Ourselves in (and to Help Reimagine a Better One)

As we say goodbye to a truly dystopian year (and then some), here is a reading list for those who want to look forward to a better year in 2020. This list has been arranged in no particular order and…
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