Maria Baer

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  • What are women for?

    What are women for?

    At times, roles that men and women fill have been prioritized over the goodness of their God-given design. More often, roles have been conflated with design.

  • Erasing women

    Erasing women

    The contrast between Metaxas’ celebration of women as women and the transgender movement’s aggressive decree that any woman who does something stereotypically male must therefore be a man is profound. 

  • Kids are given to parents, not the state

    Kids are given to parents, not the state

    Parenthood intrinsically commits Christians to follow Jesus, to be thoughtful and self-sacrificing, to live virtuously and teach kids to do the same, to bring them up in “the nurture and admonition of the Lord.”

  • Abortion is not necessary for female athletes to succeed

    Abortion is not necessary for female athletes to succeed

    When a sports league pressures women to violently inhibit their body’s natural functioning, it ceases to be a women’s league at all. Instead, it becomes a pretend-men’s sports league which encourages women to compete as long as they aren’t too much like women.

  • Leaving church

    Leaving church

    As the wider culture fractures in a million ways, the Church should look different. When it doesn’t, our witness suffers. Leaving churches over politically charged disagreements, without taking the time to explore the motive, practices, and beliefs behind them is just not biblically permissible.

  • A changing climate is a calling, not an alarm

    A changing climate is a calling, not an alarm

    Christians need not share this existential dread. The Bible tells us that God not only created but also sustains His creation. “He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together,” Paul wrote in Colossians.

  • The God committee and our call to play God

    The God committee and our call to play God

    The key distinction here is whether we play God as if God actually exists, or whether we play God as if we are God. Whenever we think it’s our authority that determines what’s right and what’s wrong, we’re playing God in the wrong way.

  • Is God really on the throne during revolutions and collapsed buildings?

    Is God really on the throne during revolutions and collapsed buildings?

    Often we see how bad things "work together for good." The problem is that we can only glimpse this sometimes, in a limited number of cases. But why could it not be that God allowed evil because it will bring us all to a far greater glory and joy than we would have had otherwise?

  • Your body, whose choice?

    Your body, whose choice?

    Regardless of how old, how young, how healthy, or how sick, a Christian view is that our bodies are not our own. “You were bought with a price,” Paul wrote to the church in Corinth, “therefore glorify God in your body.”

  • Politics makes a lousy worldview

    Politics makes a lousy worldview

    It is culturally and personally dangerous to either unquestioningly accept or dismiss ideas merely because of their political context. Politics doesn’t determine reality. And of course, politics can’t tell us the whole truth about the world either.

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