Chris Baker

Christian. Husband. Dad.
I work at the Institute for Spiritual Formation at @biolau
PhD candidate in Bonhoeffer studies at @TUApeldoorn
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[Chris Baker @bakerbonhoeffer]

My dissertation topic:

"Preparing the Way & Entering In": Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Helping Others Become Hearers of the Word of God

My supervisor: @huijgen
Second reader: @pgziegler1

[Chris Baker @bakerbonhoeffer]

@FredFredSanders Presumably Rob Price's office somewhere...

[Chris Baker @bakerbonhoeffer]

I'm reading Bonhoeffer's Letters & Papers from Prison and this thread captures some of my dissonance with his references to a "world come of age". Doesn't feel like a very grown-up world in 1944...

[Collin Hansen @collinhansen]

I wrote in the conclusion to 'The Gospel After Christendom,' 'We know that secularism didn't deliver us from evil. Because we're still traumatized in the West by what the Second World War drew out of us, what that war revealed in us. We have yet to heal.'

[Chris Baker @bakerbonhoeffer]

Sigh...

Well, I'll always have Joe Carter when I was 14 years old. All the joy in LA can never take that memory away from me...

[Chris Baker @bakerbonhoeffer]

@mt_barrios We've used YNAB for a long time - I love it

[ChurchLeaders.com @ChurchLead]

A debate is dividing evangelicals: Can you pursue deep spiritual formation while remaining theologically orthodox, or does spiritual growth inevitably lead believers away from sound doctrine? @KyleStrobel https://t.co/MvS7M4kxFF

[The Bonhoeffer Podcast @bonhoefferpod]

Launched a new Substack and dropped a new episode of the podcast. Check it out!

Rev. Dr. John McCabe - Dietrich Bonhoeffer - The Last Eight Days

https://t.co/SyKlfabMbv

[Chris Baker @bakerbonhoeffer]

@AndyRowell Bo Giertz, The Hammer of God

[Chris Baker @bakerbonhoeffer]

@huijgen @TUApeldoorn Not pictured is my second supervisor, @pgziegler1 - but he is also looking over my other should from time to time....

[Chris Baker @bakerbonhoeffer]

Always work as if your doctoral supervisor is looking over your shoulder....

So here I am under the watchful gaze of @huijgen in the @TUApeldoorn Senate Room. At least he's smiling...

[Luke Stamps @lukestamps]

Spiritual theology is a sub-discipline in the theological encyclopedia that painfully few evangelicals have engaged adequately. Talbot's Institute for Spiritual Formation (@KyleStrobel) and their Journal for Spiritual Formation and Soul Care are leading the way.

[Chris Baker @bakerbonhoeffer]

@DZRishmawy The Hammer of God by Bo Giertz is my latest favorite (excellent Lutheran fiction). Highly recommend.

[Chris Baker @bakerbonhoeffer]

Edmonton is going to have nightmares about the last 10 seconds of this game for a while. What an unbelievable collapse.

[Chris Baker @bakerbonhoeffer]

Never in my life have I been so excited about a Manitoban sports team...

NHL Playoffs are on another level - no sport can compare.

[Chris Baker @bakerbonhoeffer]

cc @huijgen

[Luke Stamps @lukestamps]

I'm chatting with a publisher and brainstorming some ideas for a Protestant Mariology.

[Chris Baker @bakerbonhoeffer]

Dear @NHL,

Please let the @EdmontonOilers sign Wayne Gretzky for the last game of the regular season and make a deal with the @SanJoseSharks to let him score however many goals he needs to reclaim the all-time scoring title from Ovechkin.

Would make the playoffs interesting...

[Chris Baker @bakerbonhoeffer]

I don't know what to call this system - but for now let's just call it "not a monarchy..."

[Chris Baker @bakerbonhoeffer]

What we really need is a system where leaders representing various interests publicly debate the pros and cons of various policies before coming to a decision...

[Chris Baker @bakerbonhoeffer]

Of course, we want to make sure all of this is on the up and up - so (and I think this is my last idea), we should find a group of experts who can judge whether the policy is actually legal.