What Remains

“Ben is . . . gifted with the ability to weave together personal vulnerability with incisive analysis in a way that is seamless, illuminating, and highly instructive. What Remains will draw you into deeper reflection on you own faith while also challenging you to think more critically and constructively about the broader evolution of our religious landscape. It is a wonderfully thoughtful and gracious book, and I’m pleased to commend it.”

—Adam S. Borneman, Minister, Presbyterian Church (USA)



“Garrett invites us on his journey of development and deconstruction, and in doing so shows us that the wilderness waiting outside the gates of evangelicalism has perilous but rewarding lands in which to wander. The type of place where we might encounter Jesus as we encounter ourselves anew with the realization that leaving can be a new beginning.”

—Jeremy Hall, Associate Pastor of Faith Development, Towne View Baptist Church



“Garrett’s account of his journey beyond American Evangelicalism is at once evocative and intelligent, generous and generative. . . . Garrett’s clear-eyed yet accessible analysis of belief and belonging challenges all of us to decenter our own enculturation so as to apprehend and be changed by ‘the radical grace at the heart of the world.’”

—Cynthia G. Lindner, Director of Ministry Studies, University of Chicago Divinity School