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The Gospel According to James Baldwin: What America’s Prophet Can Teach Us about Life, Love, and Identity

Greg Garrett agrees with Baldwin on the questions that lead from bad faith to one based on wisdom and truth: “Who is God, who am I, what is sacred community, how are we supposed to live, why exercise faith?”

Greg Garrett
Orbis Books, 192 pages | Published August 30, 2023

In a late-in-life interview, James Baldwin said, “I know that we can be better than we are.” Greg Garrett invites readers of The Gospel According to James Baldwin to join him on a hero’s journey to unlock the power of these words, offering Baldwin’s life and work as a balm to a troubled American society.

These words become the thread that binds Garrett’s book...

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