Hunter Baker

Evangelicals spend a lot of time fighting about Genesis and the proper interpretation thereof.  Catholics spend a lot less time on it for reasons which are not fully clear to me.  My area of scholarship is religion, law, and politics, so I am far from expert in this controversy as either a . . . . Continue Reading »

I will make this short and simple, but I have hopes that many will be interested in the idea.We have all seen that huge amounts of foreign aid pouring into Africa through the years has done relatively little to make the lives of Africans better.  They still lack some of the basic things like . . . . Continue Reading »

I’ll go on record predicting that liturgy is going to make a big comeback among evangelicals.  Preaching is content and content is now everywhere.  You don’t have to be at James MacDonald’s church in order to hear him preach.  He’s on your computer, in your . . . . Continue Reading »

By now, most have read Anne Rice’s emphatic rejection of Christianity.  She laid out her template of left-wing values which are more important to her than being part of the church which rejects these things (anti-science, anti-Democrat, anti-gay, anti-life, waitaminute, did she say . . . . Continue Reading »

I’ve been reading through Eric Metaxas’ biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer . It is truly excellent. At points it almost has a dreamlike quality. I highly recommend it. What motivates this post is the point in the narrative where the German state church is confronted by the Aryan Paragraph . . . . Continue Reading »

I’ve been reading through Eric Metaxas’ biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.  It is truly excellent.  At points it almost has a dreamlike quality.  I highly recommend it.What motivates this post is the point in the narrative where the German state church is confronted by . . . . Continue Reading »

I recently read a biography of Henry Luce.  He was the co-founder of Time magazine and founded Life, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, and other prime American media properties.  He co-founded Time with a Yale classmate who died young.The book, Henry Luce: His . . . . Continue Reading »

We all know the circumspect pro-lifers who will endorse restricting abortion only to rapidly follow their statement with a modifier.  It goes like this:But if you plan on telling women they can’t abort babies, then you’d better be ready to establish orphanages, pay for healthcare, . . . . Continue Reading »

My good friend and a thinker I admire greatly, Pejman Yousefzadeh, has read my book The End of Secularism and commented on it.  I am very happy to have him read it because he is one of the few non-Christians of whom I am aware who have read the book. Because I value his opinion so highly, I . . . . Continue Reading »

On my way out of Houston, my pastor asked me to preach a sermon about truth. I took the opportunity to return to first things and to try to help people have their own faith rather than just belonging to the Christian tribe.You can hear it here. It begins with the pastor talking about my wife and . . . . Continue Reading »