Hunter Baker

Author, professor, and provost at North Greenville University. World, ERLC, Acton, Modern Age, CRCD, Braver Angels, Land Center, Touchstone. AMDG.

[Hunter Baker @hunterbaker]

@JW_Lumley @megbasham It doesn't help much if you don't explain why. Is it really that hard to sift substantive engagement from the equivalent of trolling?

[Hunter Baker @hunterbaker]

As we approach this year’s SBC in Orlando, remember these words: conflict entrepreneur. Don’t feed them.

[Hunter Baker @hunterbaker]

Join us! Happy to meet folks.

[Criswell College @CriswellCollege]

Join Criswell College and @bartbarber, @deaninserra, @MusingsOnChrist, and @hunterbaker at the #SBC26 in Orlando for dinner and a panel discussion on religious liberty, Christian nationalism, and faith in the public square. Tickets: https://t.co/VLkpcoru1P

[Hunter Baker @hunterbaker]

@JW_Lumley @megbasham I thought I was very clear. I have zero problem with well-stated substantive arguments. What I've seen is just destructive posturing and immature role-playing. I'll take anybody seriously who communicates in an adult fashion.

[Hunter Baker @hunterbaker]

@merelyjwright @megbasham I'm choosing not to name names, but there are some folks here who do nothing but try to "ratio" people and kick up negative emotions that drive online engagement. That's just acid. It doesn't help anything and makes it harder to do anything good.

[Hunter Baker @hunterbaker]

@merelyjwright @megbasham It has to do with substantive content and argumentation as opposed to constant sniping and demagoguery. Here's what I had to say about Megan's book. https://t.co/RajEmNliZy

[Hunter Baker @hunterbaker]

@megbasham If you recall, I engaged your work in Public Discourse. That's respect. Conflict entrepreneurs don't offer anything of enough value to even really discuss meaningfully.

[Hunter Baker @hunterbaker]

Criswell College Dinner at the SBC — Excited to be with Criswell friends at the convention. Join us! https://t.co/pJu5XEwSgy

[Ilya Shapiro @ishapiro]

@ReverendWarnock The Court doesn’t believe districts should be drawn based on race, because all citizens have equal rights. It’s a damn shame that US Senator disagrees. Then again, a lot of Georgia Democrats would’ve agreed with you before Jim Crow ended.

[Hunter Baker @hunterbaker]

@itsNVR2L8te @MarkWarner Is this an account that demonstrates Dunning-Kruger at work?

[Hunter Baker @hunterbaker]

I think Erick is right about this, unfortunately. Trump needs to realize he’s not dealing with rational-maximizers.

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

Here is what someone should tell the President, because it bears on his own political survival.

A well-armed tyranny ruling an unarmed population is remarkably durable under economic pain. The Iranian regime can starve its people and shoot the ones who object. It has done so for decades. It will absorb two-hundred-dollar oil and call it resistance.

A republic founded not on theocratic rule, but on rule of the people, by the people, and for the people is different. It answers to voters — and these voters elected a President on a promise to crush the inflation Joe Biden left behind. Instead, they have watched costs climb under tariffs, trade wars, and now an actual war that has sent energy prices soaring with no end in sight. The mullahs can outlast their economic misery. The coalition that put this President in office cannot. Mr. Trump is betting the American voter has the patience of a captive Iranian. That is a bet he will lose.

The honorable path is also the sound one: finish what we started, or get out of the way of the ally willing to. Reopen Hormuz by force if Iran will not do it by agreement. Stop calling a war a ceasefire and stop dignifying a rout as diplomacy.

Otherwise, the verdict will be brief and brutal. We had Iran beaten. We talked ourselves out of the win. And we let a regime that shoots its own citizens lecture us on what a ceasefire means — while we nodded along, shooting, as the President put it, “in a more moderate manner.”

https://t.co/5KOv5Nftwl

[Hunter Baker @hunterbaker]

@ShawnWGillogly @NeilShenvi DeepWater, when I talk about conflict entrepreneurs, I'm not talking about you. Maybe you are one, but you aren't in my vision and doing things about which I'm aware.

[Hunter Baker @hunterbaker]

@ShawnWGillogly @NeilShenvi Better yet, let the conflict entrepreneurs be transparent.

[Bart Barber @bartbarber]

Wow. I tip my cap to @hunterbaker and to @pastorclint. This is an AMAZING slate of resolutions. Beautifully clarifying resolutions about who Southern Baptists are, offered in a time when such clarity is helpful.

[Hunter Baker @hunterbaker]

@dandarling That’s what I said!

[Hunter Baker @hunterbaker]

@BritniDWrites It had to do with the VIRGINIA constitution.

[Hunter Baker @hunterbaker]

@gamestop @TommyTwoClubs It’s half cash, half stock.

[Hunter Baker @hunterbaker]

@chron Because they don’t want to?

[Hunter Baker @hunterbaker]

@KSPrior What has happened?