Andrew T. Walker - Ethics and Public Theology in a Secular Age

Mass Shootings and the Church’s Opportunity in Confronting the American Male Mindset

August 5, 2019

Saturday’s mass shooting in El Paso is an unmitigated tragedy. What we know at this point is that, once again, a shooter was guided by a naked white supremacy and […]

Is Polyamory on the Horizon in American Culture?

July 29, 2019

Even before the Supreme Court exercised raw judicial power and wrongly redefined marriage, social conservatives predicted that removing the conjugal (or complementary) basis of marriage would leave marriage open to further redefinition. Their warnings were met with scorn by progressives, who believed that conservative fears were unfounded.

Critical theory and Christian ethics: can they co-exist?

May 16, 2019

On May 15, The Gospel Coalition published a very good essay by Neil Shenvi arguing that critical theory is incompatible with Christianity. Considering the level of confusion and the accusations […]

Can weaponry be humane?

May 13, 2019

Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported on a new piece of weaponry that the United States military has developed. The sophistication of the new missile—the R9X—is breathtaking. In short, […]

Mayor Pete’s God-talk and Selective Outrage

May 3, 2019

One of the rules of modern discourse is to keep God, or religious-based argument, out of the arena of politics. Because we’re a country conditioned by an ahistorical interpretation of […]

Three Christian Moral Ingredients at the American Founding

A book on natural law and religious liberty that I am reading for an academic colloquium I am participating in is bringing to the forefront of my mind the uniqueness […]

If religion is just a choice, why is religious liberty a constitutional right?

There’s a critique against religious liberty that goes like this: Religion is a matter of someone’s personal choice, so why protect religious freedom as a constitutional right if it’s merely […]

Book Recommendation: Liberty in the Things of God

This morning I finished a highly anticipated book: Liberty in the Things of God by distinguished historian Robert Louis Wilken. I wrote my dissertation on how the architecture of Christian […]

Religious liberty means peace

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the church attack on Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka was retaliation for the March mass shooting of Muslims in Christchurch, New Zealand. While […]

Your Time is Not Your Own

If your days or life are anything like mine, sometimes schedule demands can overtake every minute of your day. Waking anywhere between 4:30 A.M and 5:15 A.M. and trying to go […]