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• Lenten Reflections – Those Who Betrayed Him

  By H. David Baer on March 8, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  This Lenten devotion is from 1958. To learn more about the history behind it, click here. While he was still speaking, Judas came, one of the twelve, and with him a great crowd with swords and clubs, from the chief… Read More ›

• You Shall Be Called Cephas

  By H. David Baer on March 4, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  This Lenten sermon is from 1961. To learn a little about the history behind it, click here. One of the two who heard John speak, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother. He first found his brother Simon, and… Read More ›

• Faith of our Fathers

  By H. David Baer on February 28, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  My grandfather was a minister who studied theology at Liebenzell Mission between 1925 and 1929. He was ordained in 1931 and immediately sent to China, where he served as a missionary until 1949.

• Lenten Reflections – The Lord’s Supper

  By H. David Baer on February 28, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  This Ash Wednesday sermon is from 1958. To learn a little about the history behind it, click here. And when the hour came, he sat at table, and the apostles with him. And he said to them, “I have earnestly… Read More ›

• My Crystal Ball Says These Things Will Happen While Donald Trump Is President

  By H. David Baer on November 9, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  History is full of surprises, irony, and unintended consequences – which is one reason those who study history know better than to make predictions. Since, however, I’m not a historian, I’m foolish enough to make a few specific predictions about… Read More ›

• America’s Useful Idiot – Donald Trump

  By H. David Baer on October 19, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  I hate to be so partisan, but Trump’s relationship to Putin is simply scary. Here’s what I wrote for The Cresset. “Among the shocks Donald Trump has wrought to American politics, one of the biggest in my view has been… Read More ›

• What Is The OSCE?

  By H. David Baer on September 24, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Talking with students about my professional work, I realized that many people don’t know what the OSCE is, or what it does. So I thought I might post a short “educational” blog to help people learn a little bit about… Read More ›

• Statement of FOREF Europe at the OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting 2016

  By H. David Baer on September 24, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Originally posted on Forum for Religious Freedom Europe:
  HUNGARY: Two years after ruling by ECtHR Church Law Remains Unaltered FOREF Europe intervenes for the 3rd time at the OSCE BUDAPEST/WARSAW, 24.09.2016 (FOREF) – The Forum for Religious Freedom Europe prepared following intervention for…

• Stumped by Trump: Armageddon and the GOP

  By H. David Baer on April 22, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  My two cents worth on Donald Trump for The Cresset. “If these are Trump’s supporters, we can begin to see that the strength of his support draws on something more than hatred and bigotry. Trump’s core constituency may have concluded,… Read More ›

• Shakespeare Selfie

  By H. David Baer on April 1, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  One of the greatest things about technology is that it frees up our time to do – well, nothing. Mostly, I guess, it makes life easier. No need to learn arithmetic; we can use a calculator. No need to learn… Read More ›