Mark D. Baker

In a recent article: Training for Mission, I described how my
growth and development has come from a rich combination of experience, mentoring, reading, and formal academic training. I worked at a Christian summer camp throughout high school and college, I taught high school in Honduras for four years and then worked as a Campus Minister with Intervarsity Christian Fellowship in Syracuse, New York.

After completing an MA in biblical studies I returned to Honduras with my family as a missionary. Sandwiched in the middle of six years of ministry in Honduras were four years at Duke University to complete my Ph. D. in theology and ethics. The main questions and issues I worked on at Duke came not so much from books in the library, but from the streets of Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Similarly, my writing has been motivated and shaped by life experiences, which convinced me, that theology, how we think about God, really matters. I make my writings more accessible through this web site with the prayer that things I have written will help others to experience in a more profound way God’s love and to more fully experience and share the shalom God desires for us.