UPDATE: This list is incomplete. I can’t keep up. Use our friend google for the comprehensive Baker list.
Books
The Baylor Project (chapter “The Struggle for Baylor’s Soul)
Online/Magazine Articles
Christianity Today
David Dockery on Christian Higher Education
Springtime for Baylor Still Lies Ahead
Innocence and Ambition at Patrick Henry College
Church, State, and the Founding of America
Is Church Attendance Declining?
Christian Higher Education Goes to Russia
Do Children of the “Unequally Yoked” Do Worse?
Why College Doesn’t Turn Kids Secular
The American Spectator
Huckabee, Darwin, and Democracy
Romney and the American Religion
Kerry and Special Interests Part I
Kerry and Special Interests Part II
Schiavo and the Slippery Slope
Intellectuals Who Doubt Darwin
ESPN and the End of Rational Discourse
Unintelligent Designs on Academic Freedom
Gelernter and Dobson in the Public Square
The Straw that Broke the Donkey’s Back
Human Events
National Review Online
Salvo Magazine (contributing editor)
Dear Mr. Baker,
I thought perhaps you were a good contact point–I’ve been following your work some over the last months, particularly after reading reviews of your book The End of Secularism; am trying to get hold of a copy of it.
I’m online some, but not obsessively; use email for its convenience, and check a few sites such as First Things, The Gospel Coalition, and others here and there. I used to enjoy The Dawn Patrol until Dawn Eden closed it down.
I am a 50-something evangelical Protestant by background; did a thesis on spiritual warfare in the English Puritans in the ’90’s, at Regent College. Dr. Packer was my supervisor. There is an unimpeachable evangelical, by the way; do our friends at the Evangel blog, who have ongoing trouble over Catholicism, reference this fact? Packer, despite his Reformed credentials etc., has often said that God is merciful despite our ignorance; and that He can still justify those who may not fully understand the doctrine of justification accurately.
At any rate, I’m not quite sure technically how to jump into the discussions at Evangel and such sites; I’m still accustoming myself to the blogworld. I also don’t know that I entirely approve of it because of its tendency to facilitate quickness of answer–which often means shallowness, if not rudeness. Taking one’s time to think before speaking is becoming a lost art, I think.
The other thing I wanted to ask you, is–who “runs” the blog? That is actually a question I have wanted to run by First Things itself. Maybe you know what I mean? When Richard Neuhaus was alive, you had the sense of a very profound, powerful, lively and articulate “intellectual center” at the heart of the journal. Even if you disagreed with his stedfast Catholicism, he was a very challenging thinker and expressor.
First Things is still producing wonderful, stimulating stuff; but I am wondering if it has that sort of center now. Obviously the loss of a great man matters…
But also, with the rack of different blogsites, it gets pretty diffuse–but maybe that’s just me. At Evangel however–is there a “there” there? It has seemed pretty random; and it will be too bad if all it is, is evangelicals squabbling over Roman minutiae. Actually, that iself could be a bad sign for evangelicalism. John Paul II was a leader with a capital L, and Rome has reasserted itself with a vengeance both during his pontificate, and now under Benedict (from what I can tell, but what do I know?
Nevertheless, Rome’s ability to speak with intelligence, force, and directness is an awesome thing at times. It is pretty sad if evangelicals are petty and fragmented, in contrast.
Just thinking and asking! Sorry to invade your space without permission, but I thought you might have some answers for me, when/if you have time!
Thanks, and blessings–
Bryan G. Zacharias
Grande Prairie, Alberta Canada