Jeff Baker
@jrbprof.bsky.social
Lawyer, Teacher, Writer.
Associate Dean and Clinical Prof at Alabama Law.
Deep Southerner.
I went to Vandy for the football.
Associate Dean and Clinical Prof at Alabama Law.
Deep Southerner.
I went to Vandy for the football.
My friend, Edward Carson, has long hosted Race Matters, a radio show (WJOP 96.3!) and podcast. I recently joined him as a co-host. This episode is a rich conversation with Dr. Reggie Williams, on Bonhoeffer, ethics of resistance, and discerning true humanity.
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Race Matters Eps 82: Professor Reggie Williams' Bonhoeffer and the Ethics of Resistance
Race Matters Eps 82:
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November 25, 2025 at 12:57 PM
My friend, Edward Carson, has long hosted Race Matters, a radio show (WJOP 96.3!) and podcast. I recently joined him as a co-host. This episode is a rich conversation with Dr. Reggie Williams, on Bonhoeffer, ethics of resistance, and discerning true humanity.
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Roll Tide anyway......
November 16, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Roll Tide anyway......
Last week, I had the honor of delivering the Margaret Parker Lecture at the Episcopal Diocese of LA annual convention:
The Church of Dissent in the Imperial Republic.
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The Church of Dissent in the Imperial Republic.
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Canon Jeff Baker | 2025 Margaret Parker Lecture | 11.8.25
YouTube video by Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles
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November 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Last week, I had the honor of delivering the Margaret Parker Lecture at the Episcopal Diocese of LA annual convention:
The Church of Dissent in the Imperial Republic.
youtu.be/QI9SMbim0DM?...
The Church of Dissent in the Imperial Republic.
youtu.be/QI9SMbim0DM?...
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A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants
November 5, 2025 at 10:35 AM
A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants
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DODGERS WIN THE WORLD SERIES
November 2, 2025 at 4:19 AM
DODGERS WIN THE WORLD SERIES
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Kendrick wins again
November 2, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Kendrick wins again
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🗣️ The Montgomery Advertiser—Alabama’s oldest and best newspaper—doesn’t have a presence (yet) on #Bluesky which is too bad. ICYMI this is my most recent opinion-essay just published by The Advertiser concerning last week’s execution in Alabama. Thank you. www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/opinio...
October 31, 2025 at 3:24 PM
🗣️ The Montgomery Advertiser—Alabama’s oldest and best newspaper—doesn’t have a presence (yet) on #Bluesky which is too bad. ICYMI this is my most recent opinion-essay just published by The Advertiser concerning last week’s execution in Alabama. Thank you. www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/opinio...
In this ep of Race Matters, Carson & I talk with Dr. Paul Harvey of UC - Colorado Springs, an expert in the history of Evangelicalism and Evangelical churches, to discuss Evangelical relationships with the state and politics. We suss out some of our own histories too.
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Race Matters Episode 80: American Religion with Professor Paul Harvey
YouTube video by PortMedia
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October 29, 2025 at 3:28 PM
In this ep of Race Matters, Carson & I talk with Dr. Paul Harvey of UC - Colorado Springs, an expert in the history of Evangelicalism and Evangelical churches, to discuss Evangelical relationships with the state and politics. We suss out some of our own histories too.
youtu.be/byrfRCqURVQ?...
youtu.be/byrfRCqURVQ?...
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Lab monkeys from Tulane University have escaped an overturned truck north of the town of Heidelberg, Mississippi.
Despite initial claims by local law enforcement, the monkeys are not carrying COVID-19, herpes or hepatitis C.
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Despite initial claims by local law enforcement, the monkeys are not carrying COVID-19, herpes or hepatitis C.
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Lab Monkeys Escape Overturned Truck Near Heidelberg, Mississippi
Lab monkeys from Tulane University have escaped an overturned truck around mile marker 117 on Interstate 59, north of the town of Heidelberg, Mississippi, marshalling a response from numerous law…
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October 28, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Lab monkeys from Tulane University have escaped an overturned truck north of the town of Heidelberg, Mississippi.
Despite initial claims by local law enforcement, the monkeys are not carrying COVID-19, herpes or hepatitis C.
buff.ly/16gTRJa
Despite initial claims by local law enforcement, the monkeys are not carrying COVID-19, herpes or hepatitis C.
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Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
October 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
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A Brief History of Halloween Isn’t Fun Anymore
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October 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM
A Brief History of Halloween Isn’t Fun Anymore
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I don't think it's dead yet, but it's very, very sick.
An embarrassingly obvious point, but...
This. Is. Illegal.
If anything like the rule of law were in force, Trump couldn't arbitrarily increase a tariff because he is annoyed.
In important and increasing ways, the rule of law in the US no longer exists.
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This. Is. Illegal.
If anything like the rule of law were in force, Trump couldn't arbitrarily increase a tariff because he is annoyed.
In important and increasing ways, the rule of law in the US no longer exists.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/25/b...
Trump says he’s increasing tariffs on Canada by 10% after Ontario’s Reagan ad | CNN Business
President Donald Trump said Saturday he is increasing the tariff on Canada by 10% over current levels, further escalating trade tensions over what he called a “fake” ad that featured parts of an anti-...
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October 26, 2025 at 1:25 AM
I don't think it's dead yet, but it's very, very sick.
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Earlier this month, @annabower.bsky.social started to receive Signal messages from the U.S. attorney who is leading the prosecution of Letitia James.
Throughout the exchange, Lindsay Halligan complained about Bower’s tweets and reporting on the indictment–but never once asked to be off the record.
Throughout the exchange, Lindsay Halligan complained about Bower’s tweets and reporting on the indictment–but never once asked to be off the record.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here.”
My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.
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October 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Earlier this month, @annabower.bsky.social started to receive Signal messages from the U.S. attorney who is leading the prosecution of Letitia James.
Throughout the exchange, Lindsay Halligan complained about Bower’s tweets and reporting on the indictment–but never once asked to be off the record.
Throughout the exchange, Lindsay Halligan complained about Bower’s tweets and reporting on the indictment–but never once asked to be off the record.
I shared the publication of my recent article yesterday. That article grew out of my chapter in this book, The Business of Incarceration. It's been out for a while, but we only just received the book itself. Holding the physical copy of a real book out in the world is always a mighty thing.
October 22, 2025 at 12:10 AM
I shared the publication of my recent article yesterday. That article grew out of my chapter in this book, The Business of Incarceration. It's been out for a while, but we only just received the book itself. Holding the physical copy of a real book out in the world is always a mighty thing.
My article, Christian Realism & the Sins of Mass Incarceration, is out in the Georgia Crim. Law Rev. - a study of Niebuhr's Christian Realism, analyzing the choices that drive an inhumane & racist system, inviting us to imagine new ways rooted in love.
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Christian Realism and The Sins of Mass Incarceration
This article is a study of Reinhold Niebuhr’s Christian Realism, a progressive school of social ethics rooted in Christian theology, and its critical evaluation of American mass incarceration. Christi...
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October 18, 2025 at 5:21 PM
My article, Christian Realism & the Sins of Mass Incarceration, is out in the Georgia Crim. Law Rev. - a study of Niebuhr's Christian Realism, analyzing the choices that drive an inhumane & racist system, inviting us to imagine new ways rooted in love.
digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/gclr/vol3/is...
digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/gclr/vol3/is...
Edward Carson, old friend and classmate, wise human and brilliant teacher, invited me to co-host his public radio show, Race Matters. This is our first episode, reflecting on our recent returns home to the South, after years of sojourn away.
Listen and share.
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Listen and share.
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Race Matters Episode 79: Back to the South
YouTube video by PortMedia
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October 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Edward Carson, old friend and classmate, wise human and brilliant teacher, invited me to co-host his public radio show, Race Matters. This is our first episode, reflecting on our recent returns home to the South, after years of sojourn away.
Listen and share.
youtu.be/LBIcnMkEHZk?...
Listen and share.
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OPINION: "The Deep South can be immensely generous and hospitable to individual neighbors even while sustaining brutally racist, and cruel public policies," Jeffrey Baker writes.
Opinion | Combining Policy and Hospitality Could Be Key
In comparing Los Angeles’ and Mississippi’s approaches to assisting those in need, Jeffrey Baker concludes that combining strategies could do the most good.
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September 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
OPINION: "The Deep South can be immensely generous and hospitable to individual neighbors even while sustaining brutally racist, and cruel public policies," Jeffrey Baker writes.
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My latest for the @mississippifreepress.org, reflecting on our return to the Deep South after a long and beautiful chapter in Southern California.
OPINION: "Despite the lack of resources and reactionary public policies (in Mississippi), people know their neighbors," Baker writes. "Families, churches, schools and folks are going to share shelter and bread as much as they can for the people they know."
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Opinion | Combining Policy and Hospitality Could Be Key
In comparing Los Angeles’ and Mississippi’s approaches to assisting those in need, Jeffrey Baker concludes that combining strategies could do the most good.
www.mississippifreepress.org
September 23, 2025 at 7:21 PM
My latest for the @mississippifreepress.org, reflecting on our return to the Deep South after a long and beautiful chapter in Southern California.
Oh, there it is. Very happy to be in this pack.
September 26, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Oh, there it is. Very happy to be in this pack.
I've gotten many, many new followers here on Bluesky today. Is it because of this opinion piece on lessons from moving to LA and moving back to AL, or something else? Hey, y'all.
OPINION: "Southern California is truly glorious in so many ways, but individuals can fall fast and far and fall alone among the sprawling millions," Jeffrey Baker writes.
Opinion | Combining Policy and Hospitality Could Be Key
In comparing Los Angeles’ and Mississippi’s approaches to assisting those in need, Jeffrey Baker concludes that combining strategies could do the most good.
buff.ly
September 26, 2025 at 2:02 AM
I've gotten many, many new followers here on Bluesky today. Is it because of this opinion piece on lessons from moving to LA and moving back to AL, or something else? Hey, y'all.
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OPINION: "Southern California is truly glorious in so many ways, but individuals can fall fast and far and fall alone among the sprawling millions," Jeffrey Baker writes.
Opinion | Combining Policy and Hospitality Could Be Key
In comparing Los Angeles’ and Mississippi’s approaches to assisting those in need, Jeffrey Baker concludes that combining strategies could do the most good.
buff.ly
September 25, 2025 at 6:40 PM
OPINION: "Southern California is truly glorious in so many ways, but individuals can fall fast and far and fall alone among the sprawling millions," Jeffrey Baker writes.
My latest for the @mississippifreepress.org, reflecting on our return to the Deep South after a long and beautiful chapter in Southern California.
OPINION: "Despite the lack of resources and reactionary public policies (in Mississippi), people know their neighbors," Baker writes. "Families, churches, schools and folks are going to share shelter and bread as much as they can for the people they know."
buff.ly/HZgW8aq
buff.ly/HZgW8aq
Opinion | Combining Policy and Hospitality Could Be Key
In comparing Los Angeles’ and Mississippi’s approaches to assisting those in need, Jeffrey Baker concludes that combining strategies could do the most good.
www.mississippifreepress.org
September 23, 2025 at 7:21 PM
My latest for the @mississippifreepress.org, reflecting on our return to the Deep South after a long and beautiful chapter in Southern California.
Political violence is abhorrent and so common in America - lynching, nightriders, white supremacist bombings, capital insurrections, assassinations. We are in a dark place. We must center the dignity of all people under the rule of law in an inclusive democracy.
Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.
Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.
September 10, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Political violence is abhorrent and so common in America - lynching, nightriders, white supremacist bombings, capital insurrections, assassinations. We are in a dark place. We must center the dignity of all people under the rule of law in an inclusive democracy.
Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.
Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.
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wrote about the “national conservative” vision for america
Opinion | They Don’t Want to Live in Lincoln’s America
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September 10, 2025 at 9:45 AM
wrote about the “national conservative” vision for america
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Chief Justice Roberts in SFFA just two years ago: "Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it."
Yet when the government is EXPLICITLY using race & ethnicity to detain & question people, he gives it his blessing.
Yet when the government is EXPLICITLY using race & ethnicity to detain & question people, he gives it his blessing.
September 9, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Chief Justice Roberts in SFFA just two years ago: "Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it."
Yet when the government is EXPLICITLY using race & ethnicity to detain & question people, he gives it his blessing.
Yet when the government is EXPLICITLY using race & ethnicity to detain & question people, he gives it his blessing.