Magazine Articles


“M. B. Herald Interview on Freedom from Religiosity and Judgmentalism: Studies in Paul’s Letter to the Galatians”

Mennonite Brethren Herald 62 (4, April 2023) 10-11.

“Costly Love: The Story of a Sinner, an Insult, and Jesus”

Christian Leader 80 (1, Jan./Feb. 2017) 15-16.

“Bringing Ellul to the City Council: A Council Member Reflects on how Ellul has Guided his Work”

interview of Robb Davis, The Ellul Forum 58 (Fall 2016): 1-8.

“Reflections on Jacques Ellul on the Centenary of his Birth: Ellul Challenges and Illuminates” 

The Ellul Forum 50 (Fall 2012) 3.

“Going to Jail” 

Christian Leader 73 (Dec. 2010/Jan. 2011) 4.

“More Jesus: Declaring the Significance of the Cross” 

Christian Leader 72 (April/May 2009) 6.

“Bounded or Centered? The Book of Galatians” 

In Touch (Fall/Winter 2009) 6-7.

“The Changing Face of Global Missions” 

co-authored with Martin Hartwig Eitzen, Christian Leader (February 2007) 9-11.

“Relating as Siblings”

(On relating to churches in other countries) Mennonite Brethren Herald 44 (July 1, 2005) 4-5.

“Embracing A Wider Cross: there Are Many Life-Changing Ways to Understand Christ’s Death and Resurrection” 

In Touch (Sept. 2004) 6-8.

“Would Menno Simons Watch TV?” 

Mennonite Brethren Herald 41 (February 8, 2002) 27.

“Training for Mission: What is the Best Training? Why Theology? How do Study and Action Integrate?” 

MB Mission Witness (May-June 2000) 8-9.

“Hurricane Mitch: God’s Punishment?”

Tierra Nueva-New Earth News 4 (Spring 1999) 5, 11.

“Freedom from the Grasp of Money” 

Prism 3 (Sept./Oct. 1996) 26-28.

“Jesus Touches Our Shame” 

The Mennonite 109 (July 12, 1994) 11.

“The Prodigal Embrace” 

The Other Side 30 (2, 1994) 12-15.

 

Journal Articles & Chapters


“A Honduran Mayor’s Experience of Ellul’s Political Illusion”

Ellul Forum 72 (Fall 2023): 3–13.

“Bringing Ellul to the City Council: Mayor Robb Davis Reflects on Ellul’s Influence”

in Political Illusion and Reality: Engaging the Prophetic Insights of Jacques Ellul, eds. Gill and Lovekin, Pickwick Publishers, 2018.

“Global Theology”

in T&T Clark Companion to Atonement, ed. Adam J. Johnson (London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2017) 509-514.

“My Conversion to Christian Pacifism: Reading Jacques Ellul in War Ravaged Central America” 

in Jacques Ellul on Violence, Resistance, and War, eds. Shaw and Demy, Pickwick Publishers, 2016.

“The Church and Electronic Media–Foundational Issues: Our Addiction to Efficiency and the Myth of Neutrality”

plenary presentation at the Ecclesia and Ethics II Online Conference: Gospel Community and Virtual Existence, March 8, 2014.

“Learning from Paul: Centered Ethics that Avoid Legalistic Judgmentalism and Moral Relativism”

Ecclesia and Ethics Online Biblical Studies and Theology Conference, May 18, 2013.

“Authentic Christianity and its Distortions: Communicating Jacques Ellul’s Thought Using Paul Hiebert’s Bounded and Centered Set Categories” 

Ellul Conference, Wheaton College, July 9, 2012.

“Which Courtroom and What Narrative Shapes Your Atonement Theology?”

Direction: A Mennonite Brethren Forum 41 (1, 2012) 97–110.

“Technique, Ellul and the Food Industry.”

Guest Editor: The Ellul Forum 46 (Fall 2010).

“Two Foundational Stories of the Cross: How They Affect Evangelism” 

Mission Focus Annual Review 15 (2007) 26-38.

“How the Cross Saves” 

Direction: A Mennonite Brethren Forum 36 (1, 2007) 43-57.

“The Saving Significance of the Cross in a Honduran Barrio”

Mission Focus Annual Review 14 (2006) 59-81.

“Reading Romans in Hurricane-Ravaged Honduras: A Model of Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Conversation” 

co-author, J. Ross Wagner, Missiology 32 (July 2004) 367-383.

“E.P. Sanders, Honduran Churches, and How We Write Theology”

© Mark D. Baker 1999, revised 2006.

“Is This the Gospel?: An Evaluation of the Legalism Present in Churches in a Tegucigalpa Barrio” 

Missiology 25 (4, Oct. 1997) 406-418.

“Is God Perceived as a God of Love?: The Impact of Spanish Roman Catholic Heritage, Machismo, and the experience of Authority on Latin Americans’ Concept of God”

translation of, “El concepto de Dios en América Latina.” Boletín Teológico: Revista de la Fraternidad Teológica Latinoamericana Año Año 28 (61, 1996) 39-55.

“Evangelical Churches in a Tegucigalpa Barrio, Do They Fit the Escapist and Legalistic Stereotype?: An Ethnographic Investigation”

Duke-University of North Carolina Program in Latin American Studies Working Paper Series, No. 16 (February 1995).

“Reflections on Douglas John Hall’s God and Human Suffering: An Exercise in the Theology of the Cross”

originally published as “Suffering and Leadership,” Inter-View: Inter-Cultural Journal of Christian Leadership 4 (1, 1992) 11-16.