Lynne Baab • Wednesday July 16 2025
“People in fact change by the offer of new models, images, and pictures of how the pieces of life fit together. Transformation is the slow, steady process of inviting each other into a counterstory about God, world, neighbor, and self. This slow, steady process has as counterpoint the subversive process of unlearning and disengaging from a story we find no longer to be credible or adequate.” —Walter Brueggemann, Texts Under Negotiation
In this church season of Ordinary Time, I’m encouraging you, my beloved readers, to think about the daily, ordinary Christian journey. One aspect of our daily life of discipleship is to be...
Read full article »Lynne Baab • Friday January 3 2020
I have three ways of talking about what happened to me at 19. Most often, I say I became a committed Christian then. Sometimes I say I came back to the Christian faith, and occasionally I say I became a Christian then. I may not be clear on how to describe it, but I am so grateful for God’s call to me.
I attended church almost every Sunday of my childhood. My dad was a faithful Episcopalian, and my mom fell in line with his commitment. Because my dad was in the military, we moved A LOT (12 houses in my first...
Read full article »Lynne Baab • Friday November 10 2017
My father was born on April 25, 1915, the day the Australia and New Zealand Army Corps landed at Gallipoli in Turkey. The military action there over the next six months would be so inept and bloody that on my father’s first birthday, April 25th would be declared a national holiday in New Zealand. ANZAC Day is still celebrated passionately in New Zealand, and people with no religious affiliation enthusiastically attend worship services commemorating New Zealand’s soldiers.
Of course, I had to move to New Zealand to learn the significance of my father’s birth date. It seems an appropriate day to be...
Read full article »Lynne Baab • Thursday November 2 2017
Back in the 1980s, when our sons were 3 and 5, my husband Dave got a fellowship to spend a year doing research in Sweden. He had met a visiting Swedish researcher at the University of Washington Dental School, where Dave was teaching, and that researcher invited Dave to come to Sweden to do research together. We were thrilled at this opportunity.
I was a part time student at Fuller Theological Seminary at the time, and I set up a couple of independent study projects to do in Sweden.
To our great surprise, after we arrived in Linkoping, a town two and a...
Read full article »Lynne Baab • Wednesday January 22 2025
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By Lynne M. Baab. Originally published in Christianity Today, July 8, 2021
Lynne M. Baab, Ph.D., is an author and adjunct professor. She has written numerous books, Bible study guides, and articles for magazines and journals. Lynne is passionate about prayer and other ways to draw near to God, and her writing conveys encouragement for readers to be their authentic selves before God. She encourages experimentation and lightness in Christian spiritual practices. Read more »
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