Hunter Baker

Well, we’ve had our discussions about budgets as moral documents and now have reached a budget deal that went right up to the brink of a government shutdown.To those friends of mine who are also Christians, but identify more with the left than the right, I have a question for you:  Just . . . . Continue Reading »

I recently attended a film festival at Union University featuring the work of students.  One of the first films shown was a thirty minute story about a young couple.The plot was simple and touching.  A young man expresses his romantic interest in a waitress at a diner.  They fall in . . . . Continue Reading »

In a recent piece for Religion & Liberty, a publication of the Acton Institute, I took on an analysis inspired by Bill Buckley’s old contention that the struggles between atheism and Christianity and socialism versus capitalism were ultimately the same conflict.  While I . . . . Continue Reading »

Jim Wallis and a number of other Christians involved in politics are trying to gain attention for the question, “What would Jesus cut?” The answer to this question is supposed to be as obvious as it is in other moral contexts. For example, would Jesus lie about the useful life of a . . . . Continue Reading »

The Acton Institute remembered that I wrote about Alabama and Susan Pace Hamill’s tax crusade in The End of Secularism.  In the book, I didn’t express agreement or disagreement with her argument.  Instead, I used the politics of the episode to show something about the . . . . Continue Reading »

I have been reading Rob Moll’s excellent Intervarsity Press book The Art of Dying.  One of Moll’s key points is that we know we will die and in order to do so well, we need to have thought about it ahead of time.  He doesn’t mean that we should obsess about death, . . . . Continue Reading »

When my mother called me on the phone to tell me about a book she’d recently read, I listened with some interest, but begged her not to send it along.  She is the type of person who will immediately run to the post office or to UPS to ship a book or anything else that is not nailed down . . . . Continue Reading »

When we gather together as Christians, we let our guard down.  We expect that people will be honest about who they are and their motives.  We tend not to stop to consider that someone may be engaging in the discussion in bad faith.  What if, for example, someone was offering comments . . . . Continue Reading »

My fellow Evangel blogger John Mark Reynolds has a piece up at the Washington Post On Faith blog about Mormonism and the challenges its practitioners face in the political arena.  In the post, he notes that the LDS church upholds many virtues that are beneficial to the republic, while its . . . . Continue Reading »

I have to give credit to my pastor, Ben Mandrell of Englewood Baptist Church in Jackson, Tennessee, for this title and idea.  He plans to preach the sermon next week, but he couldn’t help but give a preview in the form of a few examples.  Here are some approximations of what he . . . . Continue Reading »