Ruth Baker

What I pray for my kids – with Ruth Baker

April 29, 2021April 29, 2021 by Ruth Baker

I have a Christopher Robin and a Tigger. My eldest son is mild, kind and wise. My younger son bounces around and never stops. I thank God for them daily, even when one is being the Minister for Justice and the other is being a crazy stuntman. Among…

Christian Living

Where I go when faith feels dry

April 22, 2021April 22, 2021 by Ruth Baker

I don’t always see it coming. But some days just creep up on me where I know my faith feels lacking. Not absent—just sucked of its life. Dry, dusty, like Miss Havisham’s dining room. Sometimes it happens when I’ve let life get in the way:…

Christian Living Complementarianism

Expressing godly womanhood in a secular workplace

March 4, 2021March 4, 2021 by Ruth Baker

Editor’s note: This article is a personal reflection from a woman exploring how a complementarian understanding of men and women in Scripture might apply to her own working life. It does not seek to outline or defend the complementarian position…

Christian Living Ministry

Making our churches a safe space for the separated and divorced

January 14, 2021January 14, 2021 by Ruth Baker

Here’s an interesting thing: according to the 2016 census, 12% of our population is separated or divorced.[1] Yet only 6% of our church population is separated or divorced.[2] What does this discrepancy mean? Are our churches just excellent…

Christian Living

The journey of a lifetime: An interview with Ruth Baker

December 15, 2020December 15, 2020 by Ruth Baker

Ruth, thanks so much for speaking to us. I’ve heard you say before that you are a very ‘unlikely’ Christian. Can you tell us a bit about who you are and how you came to trust Jesus? I grew up in the 1970s in the north of England with wonderful hippy,…

Ministry

Caring for single mums at church

May 21, 2019May 23, 2019 by Ruth Baker

Church is a place of labels. Some are useful—for example, we wear name tags so we can more easily engage with others in fellowship, or sometimes we’re categorized into groups so we can be pastored more easily. But some labels are burdensome…