Maria Baer is a freelance reporter who lives in Columbus, Ohio. She contributes regularly to Christianity Today and other outlets and co-hosts the Breakpoint podcast with The Colson Center for Christian Worldview.
Church is a place for community, accountability, and radical honesty with a hope that transcends the messiness of life
Maria Baer | Being the family of God—if we’re doing it right—is going to be messy
Maria Baer | A new study demonstrates why endless personal trauma-mining is destructive, not restorative
An Ohio church runs into trouble for sheltering the homeless
Maria Baer | Lessons from Jim Elliot’s martyrdom, 68 years later
Maria Baer | “Choice” is not the right category
Christian Zomi refugees from Myanmar pass their faith and culture on to their children in Ohio
Maria Baer | And Ohio’s Issue 1 tells women they’re just not strong enough to be a mother
Maria Baer | In Ohio a playacting bully is hired to mock women at a family festival
A new program revives an old approach to caring for the sick
