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# Andrew T. Walker

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- [Morality without Adjectives](https://andrewtwalker.com/morality-without-adjectives/) - Imagine this scenario: A Christian is discussing abortion with their secular, unbelieving friend. Sensing that they are at an impasse, the Christian says, “The Bible says murdering a human being is wrong.” He thinks that settles the issue, for how could someone disagree with God and the Bible? His friend replies, “I do not believe
- [Is America a people or an idea? Yes](https://andrewtwalker.com/is-america-a-people-or-an-idea-yes/) - In less than a month, America is turning 250. We should mark the occasion with an attempt to land on an answer to a particular question engulfing the American right: What does it mean to be an American? A timeless question, for sure, but one that needs to be answered time and time again. Currently
- [Creation Speaks: Natural Law, Psalm 19, and the Recovery of Moral Theology for Evangelical Political Thought](https://andrewtwalker.com/creation-speaks/) - Within certain corners of the evangelical and Reformed world, natural law has sometimes been viewed with suspicion—as though appealing to nature and reason undermines the authority of Scripture, or as though it represents a concession to Roman Catholic moral theology that downplays human sinfulness and hesitates to speak from the Bible in public life. The
- [Standing Firm in the Moral Storm: Ethics in a Culture that Won’t Sit Still](https://andrewtwalker.com/standing-firm-in-the-moral-storm/) - There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes not from losing arguments but from watching the goalposts move mid-sentence. You make a careful case for human dignity grounded in the nature of things. By the time you finish, the terms have shifted so that aged and infirm individuals now qualify as less dignified. You
- [The ‘Frictionless’ Future Of Choosing The Child-Free Life Isn’t All Smooth Sailing](https://andrewtwalker.com/the-frictionless-future/) - There are certain things we just expect human beings to do, features of ordinary life, such as having friends, growing up, getting a job, and becoming responsible adults. But one of those expectations — having children — is in startling decline. On social media, young couples openly boast about trading childbearing for the opportunity to
- [It’s OK to love the church, even in her imperfections](https://andrewtwalker.com/its-ok-to-love-the-church/) - A peculiar habit exists among evangelicals: constantly grandstanding about the perpetual failures of the church. Just consider the parade of protest in the form of books, blog posts, and social media commentary, all haranguing the church for its failures, hypocrisies, and shortcomings. It’s a mode of self-examination that is hardly replicable anywhere else in American
- [Government by the ghoulish](https://andrewtwalker.com/government-by-the-ghoulish/) - We once had philosophers as our elected officials, first-rate intellectuals like John Adams, James Madison, and Abraham Lincoln, whose learned writings and speeches reveal profound moral depth. Disagree with them where you will, but their minds are worthy of respect. Now contrast those intellectual titans with remarks made by Michigan Democrat and Congressman Shri Thaneder:
- [Clarence Thomas and the perils of progressivism](https://andrewtwalker.com/clarence-thomas-and-the-perils-of-progressivism/) - America has a sage and does not know it. His name is Clarence Thomas, and he sits on the Supreme Court. He is a font of wisdom, not only in detailing the mistakes of his life, as told in his remarkable autobiography, but also in the timeless wisdom he seeks to promote through his championing
- [Christianity is not a politician’s prop](https://andrewtwalker.com/christianity-is-not-a-politicians-prop/) - We are living in a remarkable moment for Christianity in American public life. Far from the progressive prediction of inevitable secularization, there is an uptick in politicians across the political spectrum invoking Christianity. Despite what our secular betters may hope for, Christianity refuses to go extinct. But that Christianity may not be going extinct does
- [Allie Beth Stuckey-David French Debate Is A Study In Biblical Truth Against Toxic Empathy](https://andrewtwalker.com/allie-beth-stuckey-david-french-debate/) - On Friday, Allie Beth Stuckey’s “Relatable” podcast featured a debatebetween her and New York Times columnist David French. What was significant about the debate was French’s willingness to confront one of his sharpest critics head-on. What is doubly significant is why they were even debating to begin with: Over the last several years, French, who
- [What Is Religiously-Informed Public Policy?](https://andrewtwalker.com/what-is-religiously-informed-public-policy/) - What Is Religiously-Informed Public Policy? Let me begin with a line from Richard John Neuhaus: All matters of public policy, subject to intense debate, if essential to organizing our shared life, can be debated on the basis of reason. That is, of course, correct, but we all believe that our faith traditions ought to inform
- [The failure of church establishment on full display](https://andrewtwalker.com/the-failure-of-church-establishment-on-full-display/) - Last week saw an astonishing display of the ravages of establishment Christianity running roughshod over biblical Christianity. First, the Church of England—a bulwark of British society, we’re told—installed a woman as the first archbishop of Canterbury in the history of Anglicanism. Not to be outdone, Finland’s judicial system dropped the hammer of justice on a
- [Someone Ask Andy Beshear A Hard Question](https://andrewtwalker.com/someone-ask-andy-beshear-a-hard-question/) - The Supreme Court issued one of its most clarifying rulings in years on Tuesday, directly challenging the cancellation efforts of modern progressivism, and the reaction from the progressive Left revealed everything you need to know about who actually believes in freedom and who doesn’t. In Chiles v. Salazar, the Court ruled 8-1 that Colorado’s ban
- [Conservatism’s Formation Crisis](https://andrewtwalker.com/conservatisms-formation-crisis/) - Editor’s Note: This is the third essay in a three-part series on the control of meaning within conservatism. You can read the first two essays in the series here and here. For much of the late twentieth century, conservatives could imagine a recognizable chain of authority and formation: institutions, magazines, think tanks, donors, pastors, editors,
- [A Kind Heretic Is Still A Heretic](https://andrewtwalker.com/a-kind-heretic-is-still-a-heretic/) - A peculiar ritual has emerged on Sunday afternoons in online evangelical discourse. After the benediction, after the coffee, after lunch, some settle in to read David French at The New York Times. He is, after all, a self-proclaimed evangelical and political conservative (this, despite using his platform to repeatedly hector evangelicals for all their supposed
- [Disestablishment Without Moral Neutrality](https://andrewtwalker.com/disestablishment-without-moral-neutrality/) - If you’re not aware of the Substack Elephant in the Room, you should be. Run by two good Baptists, Jake Stone and Casey McCall, it’s a worthwhile venue for Baptist reflection. I’m particularly pleased that both are affiliated with Southern Seminary. This week, Casey McCall wrote a post, “Magisterial Christian Nationalism Doesn’t Take Sin Seriously
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: War with Iran and the War on Reality](https://andrewtwalker.com/war-with-iran/)
- [Kentucky Today Podcast 3/4/26](https://andrewtwalker.com/kentucky-today-podcast-3426/) - Many thanks to Lawrence Smith for having me on the Kentucky Today podcast to talk about Just War Theory and the attack on Iran.
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: Super Bowl Recap, Election Fraud, and What Caught My Eye](https://andrewtwalker.com/super-bowl-recap/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: Minnesota Fraud, 'Operation Absolute Resolve', and Minneapolis Attack on ICE](https://andrewtwalker.com/minnesota-fraud/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: Minnesota Lawlessness, Backing Law Enforcement, and Flag Updates](https://andrewtwalker.com/minnesota-lawlessness/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: Minnesota Church Invasion with Kevin Ezell](https://andrewtwalker.com/minnesota-church-invasion/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: Continued Minnesota Unrest, Toxic Empathy, and Aura](https://andrewtwalker.com/continued-minnesota-unrest/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: Minnesota, Bad Bunny, and Moral Absurdity](https://andrewtwalker.com/minnesota/)
- [On Religious Liberty - Pastors Talk](https://andrewtwalker.com/on-religious-liberty-pastors-talk/) - Many thanks to Jonathan Leeman and Mark Dever for having me on Pastors Talk to talk about religious liberty.
- [Law remains law](https://andrewtwalker.com/law-remains-law/) - By now, your social media feeds are litigating the death of Alex Pretti at the hands of federal officers in Minneapolis on Saturday. This follows the recent death of Renee Good, a woman who was shot and killed after her vehicle struck a federal officer while she was protesting immigration enforcement in Minneapolis. At present,
- [Keeping young women from going woke](https://andrewtwalker.com/keeping-young-women-from-going-woke/) - While speaking at a recent event, I was asked a question that I had never heard put so bluntly before—and its bluntness was the point. A father raised his hand and asked: How do we keep our daughters from going woke? He wasn’t sneering. He wasn’t angry. He was worried and earnest. And he was perceptive enough
- [Snowstorms, Romans 13, and the Common Good](https://andrewtwalker.com/snowstorms-romans-13-and-the-common-good/) - I’m writing this on a Saturday morning, just before a historic snowstorm is set to descend on Louisville, Kentucky—one projected to bring as much snow as almost anywhere in the region. There is something about snowstorms (or more broadly, in time of emergency) that reliably makes me marvel. In ideal conditions where government is acting as
- [Why Christian Academics Should Engage in Public Scholarship](https://andrewtwalker.com/why-christian-academics-should-engage-in-public-scholarship/) - The modern university (along with the rest of society) is awash in confusion about the most basic questions of human existence. What does it mean to be a man or a woman? What is freedom? What is family for? These are not arcane puzzles for ivory-tower specialists—they are live questions that determine how our
- [Good riddance, Gov. Walz](https://andrewtwalker.com/good-riddance-gov-walz/) - Monday morning’s announcement from Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz that he would end his bid for an unprecedented third term as governor is an occasion for celebration. While presenting himself as a fatherly Midwestern figure—with all the attendant folksiness one associates with the “Minnesota Nice” aura—Walz’s tenure was an unvarnished tragedy of serious moral consequence.
- [Yes, churches should have security teams.](https://andrewtwalker.com/yes-churches-should-have-security-teams/) - After leftist activists intruded into a Southern Baptist church in Minnesota—disrupting worship, frightening children, and intimidating congregants—a predictable question follows: If Christians are commanded to love their enemies and not resist an evildoer, how can churches justify security teams? The answer is straightforward. Scripture’s commands to love one’s enemy (Matt. 5:44), to “not resist an evildoer,”
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: Guest Episode with Katy Faust](https://andrewtwalker.com/katy-faust/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: End of Year Recap, See You In 2026](https://andrewtwalker.com/end-of-year-recap/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: Do mean tweets matter, Brown University shooting, and the Islamism problem](https://andrewtwalker.com/do-mean-tweets-matter/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: Bully Crew Mailbag: Your Questions, Our Takes](https://andrewtwalker.com/bully-crew-mailbag/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: Islamist Threat Rising, Minnesota Fraud Exposed, and Assimilation Under Fire](https://andrewtwalker.com/islamist-threat-rising/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: Guest Episode with John Coleman](https://andrewtwalker.com/john-coleman/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: The Future of Family, Modern Feminism, and Flag Updates](https://andrewtwalker.com/the-future-of-family/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: Longest Shutdown Over, Berkeley Chaos, and The Feminist Movement Lied](https://andrewtwalker.com/longest-shutdown-over/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: Politics and the Pulpit with Guest J.D. Greear](https://andrewtwalker.com/politics-and-the-pulpit/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: The Company We Keep: Conservatism and Controversy](https://andrewtwalker.com/the-company-we-keep/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: Research Monkeys on the Loose, Arctic Frost Witch Hunt, and the Christian Meaning of Work](https://andrewtwalker.com/research-monkeys-on-the-loose/)
- [The foolish road](https://andrewtwalker.com/the-foolish-road/) - Conservatism, at its best, has always been a guardrail, something that keeps a nation tethered to sanity, moral clarity, and the lessons of history. But occasionally that guardrail gets battered—not by the left, but because those claiming to defend it decide to unbolt the guardrails themselves. This is one of those moments. Recent controversies involving
- [Law, Love, and the Lordship of Christ: Ethics in the Story of Redemption](https://andrewtwalker.com/law-love-and-the-lordship-of-christ/) - Imagine sitting down to listen to a symphony. At first, you hear scattered motifs: a single violin theme, a burst from the brass, a faint echo from the woodwinds. Alone, these fragments might seem unrelated, even confusing. But as the piece unfolds, you begin to realize that each note, each instrument, each melody and harmony,
- [The Unchained Word: A Public Theology of Free Speech](https://andrewtwalker.com/the-unchained-word/) - Abstract This essay develops a distinctly Christian theology of free speech in response to mounting threats of censorship across Western societies. We argue that freedom of speech is not merely a political concession of liberal democracies but arises from humanity’s nature as rational agents made in the image of God, created to be seekers and
- [There were no atheists at Nuremberg](https://andrewtwalker.com/there-were-no-atheists-at-nuremberg/) - Today—Nov. 20—marks the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the Nuremberg Trials, the proceedings that brought the Nazi regime before the bar of justice for its world-historical barbarism. I confess that the events of Nuremberg fascinate me. On the one hand, the idea that a temporary military tribunal comprised of the Allied Powers would formulate
- [What the law is, not what justices want it to be](https://andrewtwalker.com/what-the-law-is/) - Over the last 25 years, the Supreme Court has wrestled with numerous major moral questions: the definition of marriage, religious liberty, abortion, and even, very recently, the legality of states barring minors from undergoing “gender” transitions. Most of the “culture wars” that animate conservative Christians fall directly within the purview of the Supreme Court. But
- [Keeping the Soul of Conservatism](https://andrewtwalker.com/keeping-the-soul-of-conservatism/) - If you call yourself a political conservative, as I do—and for which I make no apology—it’s time for a family conversation about who belongs in our coalition and what moral boundaries still exist. Conservatism in America is facing a moral test. Recent events—a POLITICO exposé of grotesque vulgarities in a Young Republicans chat and Tucker Carlson’s unserious
- [Promoting True Religion or Obscuring Pure Religion? Assorted Thoughts on James Baird’s King of Kings: A Reformed Guide to Christian Government](https://andrewtwalker.com/promoting-true-religion-or-obscuring-pure-religion/) - I caused a little bit of a stir on Friday on X when I posted appreciative comments on James Baird’s volume, King of Kings. Understandably, my praise caught some by surprise since I am well on the record for opposing concepts that might be called “Christian Nationalism,” which Baird’s volume seems to hit upon without
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: Civic Call of Faith, Political Violence, and Flag Updates](https://andrewtwalker.com/civic-call-of-faith/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: Trump’s Peace Legacy, The Fading Transgender Narrative, and America's Moral Battle Thanks](https://andrewtwalker.com/trumps-peace-legacy/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: American Image Abroad, The Broken Left, and Religious Revival](https://andrewtwalker.com/american-image-abroad/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: Conservatism and Faith in a Culture of Confusion with Guest Mike Winger](https://andrewtwalker.com/conservatism-and-faith/)
- [Preserving Our Own? The Bible’s Teaching on Ethnicity, Nationality, and the Promises of Christ](https://andrewtwalker.com/preserving-our-own/) - Topics like Christian nationalism, mass immigration, and cultural heritage dominate much of the national conversation and social media ecosystem, and for good reason: We want to know who we are as genealogical creatures embedded in unique cultures and nations, and how our Christian faith can forge influence for the good. Moreover, irresponsible immigration policies have
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: Remembering Charlie Kirk](https://andrewtwalker.com/remembering-charlie-kirk/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: Reality Deniers and the Free Speech Crisis](https://andrewtwalker.com/reality-deniers/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: Secularism in the U.S., Erika Kirk’s Forgiveness, and Jimmy Kimmel](https://andrewtwalker.com/secularism-in-the-us/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: The Christian Worldview, Truth Rising, and this Civilizational Moment with Guest John Stonestreet](https://andrewtwalker.com/truth-rising/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: Flag Updates, The Schumer Shutdown, and Protecting Our Children](https://andrewtwalker.com/flag-updates/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: What Charlie Kirk's Death Means for America](https://andrewtwalker.com/what-charlie-kirks-death-means/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: Tragedy in Minneapolis, Cracker Barrel’s Costly Rebrand, and One Year of the Bully Pulpit](https://andrewtwalker.com/tragedy-in-minneapolis/)
- [Charlie Kirk and the Constitution’s resilience](https://andrewtwalker.com/charlie-kirk-and-the-constitutions-resilience/) - “You don’t hate them enough.” “They are going to pay.” “They did this.” “They want you dead.” “They hate you.” It was not uncommon to see some conservatives with large social media followings use some form of these phrases in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination. On one level, I completely get why these phrases
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: Trump Seeks Heaven, Peace Talks, NFL Wokeness and Evangelical Friend Policing](https://andrewtwalker.com/trump-seeks-heaven/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: Live Featuring Emily Jashinsky: DC Crime, Census Fraud, and Doug Wilson's D.C. Church Plant](https://andrewtwalker.com/live-featuring-emily-jashinsky/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: This Week In Politics: Gerrymandering & Recess Appointments](https://andrewtwalker.com/this-week-in-politics/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle Campaign, Trump’s Economy, and the Attack on Evangelical Christians](https://andrewtwalker.com/sydney-sweeneys-american-eagle-campaign/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: The Coldplay Debacle, Late Night TV, and the Epstein Files](https://andrewtwalker.com/the-coldplay-debacle/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: Live From The Alliance for Defending Freedom Summit with Guest, Kristen Waggoner](https://andrewtwalker.com/live-from-the-adf-summit/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: Tragedy in Texas, IRS Greenlights Church Endorsements, NYC’s Communist Surge, and the Epstein Files](https://andrewtwalker.com/tragedy-in-texas/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: America’s Foreign Policy, SCOTUS Rulings, and The One Big Beautiful Bill](https://andrewtwalker.com/americas-foreign-policy/)
- [Coat your red pill with Christian ethics](https://andrewtwalker.com/coat-your-red-pill/) - If you’re anything like me, the last five years may have deepened your already existent conservatism. There’s terminology for this you may have seen online; it’s called getting “red-pilled.” Taken from the movie The Matrix, the red pill allows those who take it to see reality for what it truly is, stripped of all its
- [When science plays parent](https://andrewtwalker.com/when-science-plays-parent/) - Biotechnology has now delivered what was once the plot of dystopian fiction: children created from three genetic parents. But we should not celebrate scientific novelty, but learn from the enduring truths of creation. With this news, the term “polyparental hybrid” enters our cultural lexicon. The term means what its prefix suggests—children with three parents, or
- [Conviction and Charity—God’s Natural Law](https://andrewtwalker.com/gods-natural-law/) - What is the ultimate standard of law to which a civil government is accountable, and how is that standard known? The ultimate standard of law for civil government is, ultimately, the moral law of God. Without God’s moral law as the foundation for legal deliberation, civil law descends into an exercise of pragmatism or positivism,
- [The Natural Law Is Not Enough. The Natural Law Is All We Have.](https://andrewtwalker.com/natural-law-is-not-enough/) - Civilizations in every age ask what makes a society just, good, and ordered. For centuries, broadly speaking, Christianity offered a clear moral framework for answering that question. But in our present eschatologically fractured age—marked by a lamentable pluralism and accelerating moral divergence—we face a sobering reality: there will never be total moral agreement this side
- [Criticism isn't cancellation](https://andrewtwalker.com/borders-are-biblical-2/) - It is a day that ends in “y,” so that means the New York Times’ David French, the supposedly conservative Christian columnist for the paper of record, has done what he has done for the last several years, and that is to use his national platform to smear evangelicals. While his columns have become redundant
- [Borders are Biblical](https://andrewtwalker.com/borders-are-biblical/) - My family and I recently returned from vacation. As is customary, when we entered the country we chose to visit, we had to go through a border entry process. Coming back, we had to go through the U.S. border security process to re-enter our home country. Though long lines are onerous to navigate, especially with
- [Conservative means what?](https://andrewtwalker.com/conservative-means-what/) - The types of conservatism are many. These include varieties of conservatives ranging from social conservatives to fiscal conservatives and small-government conservatives, among many others. No one person or organization can claim the authority to speak definitively for all of conservatism. Conservatism is, at its root, a constellation of broadly aligned ideas that, when working together,
- [How Southern Baptists spoke with one voice](https://andrewtwalker.com/how-southern-baptists-spoke-with-one-voice/) - When SBC President Clint Pressley asked me to chair this year’s Resolutions Committee, I hesitated. Anyone familiar with the resolutions process at the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting understands why. Resolutions can serve as instruments of conviction or, just as easily, catalysts for controversy. Nuanced theological concerns, amendments from the floor, and the challenge of
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: How to Think About The Modern Progressive Project As a Christian](https://andrewtwalker.com/how-to-think-about-the-modern/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: The Middle East, Mental Health, and the Crisis of Modern Faith](https://andrewtwalker.com/the-middle-east-mental-health/)
- [The scandal of compromising evangelical elites](https://andrewtwalker.com/the-scandal-of-compromising-evangelical-elites/) - For the past several decades, American evangelicals have heard a constant refrain from within their own ranks: We need more evangelical elites. More Christian scholars in the academy. More believers in the arts. More evangelicals at the highest levels of government, journalism, science, and business. The argument goes something like this: If Christians retreat from
- [The Natural Law and Biblical Mandate of Fatherhood: A Case for Creational Responsibility and Moral-Cultural Renewal](https://andrewtwalker.com/natural-law-and-biblical-mandate/) - In an age when the roles and responsibilities of men are increasingly contested or opposed by a culture of feminism and gender confusion, there remains an ineradicable truth deeply etched in both Scripture and creation: fatherhood is not an incidental identity but a divinely ordered vocation whose office and function is what civilization hinges upon.
- [Southern Baptists Contra Mundum](https://andrewtwalker.com/southern-baptists-contra-mundum/) - he most famous Southern Baptist statesman of his generation, Adrian Rogers, remarked at the Southern Baptist Convention in 2002: “As the West goes, so goes the world. As America goes, so goes the West. As Christianity goes, so goes America. As evangelicals go, so goes Christianity. As Southern Baptists go, so go evangelicals.” Rogers’s statement is not
- [Panel Remarks for Seeking Truth and Speaking Truth](https://andrewtwalker.com/panel-remarks-seeking-truth-speaking-truth/) - The following is a transcript of remarks given on June 30 at the American Enterprise Institute’s Book Launch for Robert P. George’s new volume, Seeking the Truth and Speaking the Truth. I’m deeply honored to be part of this conversation marking the release of Robert George’s Seeking Truth and Speaking Truth. This book, as you
- [Evangelicals After Obergefell: 10 Years of Living on the Wrong Side of History](https://andrewtwalker.com/evangelicals-after-obergefell/) - I’ll never forget where I was when the push alert came through on my phone. As I sat in the lobbyist bullpen in Kentucky’s Capitol annex, the New York Times alert notified readers that the Obama administration would no longer defend the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), a law from the 1990s that defined marriage
- [Aristotle or Nietzsche?](https://andrewtwalker.com/aristotle-or-nietzsche/) - The death of Alasdair MacIntyre last week marks the end of one of the most towering philosophical voices of the last century—a thinker whose influence on contemporary ethics, politics, and moral reasoning cannot be overstated. As an evangelical Christian and ethics professor, I found MacIntyre to be one of those rare interlocutors whose clarity of
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: Genesis Called: It Wants It's Rainbow Back](https://andrewtwalker.com/genesis-called/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: It’s time for Christians to be culture warriors, the impact of your vote, and how gay will June be?](https://andrewtwalker.com/its-time-for-christians/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: Media Bias and Its Impact on Politics, Joe Biden's Cancer Diagnosis, and Pope Leo the based](https://andrewtwalker.com/media-bias/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: Breaking down the divide between the Republican and Democratic Party and where do Christians go from here?](https://andrewtwalker.com/trumps-first-100-days-2/)
- [A clear moral divide](https://andrewtwalker.com/a-clear-moral-divide/) - This may come as a surprise to many journalists and academics, but the main reason that evangelical Christians tend to vote Republican in large majorities is not out of a slavish devotion to right-wing politics or an obsession with power. Consider a recent comment made by the political scientist Ryan Burge on X (formerly Twitter).
- [Why Protestants care about the pope](https://andrewtwalker.com/why-protestants-care-about-the-pope/) - At first glance, it may seem strange—if not outright contradictory—for Protestants to care about who becomes the next pope. After all, the Protestant Reformation was built on rejecting papal authority. From Martin Luther’s 95 Theses to the clarion calls of the Reformers, Protestants have long distanced themselves from Rome’s magisterium. To put my own Protestant
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: Trump's first 100 days in office, the abortion pill, Amazon vs the White House, and More](https://andrewtwalker.com/trumps-first-100-days/)
- [A maturing political conscience](https://andrewtwalker.com/a-maturing-political-conscience/) - For much of the modern era, evangelical political engagement in America has been perceived—sometimes rightly, sometimes wrongly—as a quest for power. The rise of the Religious Right in the late 20th century was framed by many as a strategic movement to “take back” the culture, to assert Christian values through political dominance. That framing—whether entirely
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: Easter Recap, Christianity Today, and the Walker/Teetsel showdown over a 90ft statue](https://andrewtwalker.com/easter-recap/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: Holy Week at the White House, Colorado redefines discrimination, and what’s next for BP?](https://andrewtwalker.com/holy-week-at-the-white-house/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: Tariff Tantrums, Malicious Compliance, and Stay in Your Lane?](https://andrewtwalker.com/tariff-tantrums/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: Is Third Way the way? / The New World of AI](https://andrewtwalker.com/is-third-way-the-way/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: The battle on deportation, one judge Stops Trump, and who’s on the ticket in 2028?](https://andrewtwalker.com/the-battle-on-deportation/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: No DOE, No Marriage, and Dean's Public School Stand](https://andrewtwalker.com/no-doe/)
- [Theologians against nature](https://andrewtwalker.com/theologians-against-nature/) - Calvin University professor James K.A. Smith made news this week by calling for the university to effectively “divorce” or, in his words, “unhook” itself from its denominational affiliation, the Christian Reformed Church. According to Smith, Calvin University will fail to be authentically “Reformed” if it stays wedded to a “narrow dogmatism” that does not honor
- [Christianity as a cultural good](https://andrewtwalker.com/christianity-as-a-cultural-good/) - Christianity’s impact on culture is profound, shaping everything from how we think about family to the purpose of government. However, understanding the mechanisms by which Christianity influences culture and how cultural shifts, in turn, affect religious belief is a complex task. Three books have shaped my understanding of this dynamic, and each addresses different dimensions
- [It’s not too late to abandon “Christian nationalism”](https://andrewtwalker.com/its-not-too-late-to-abandon-christian-nationalism/) - Three years ago, when “Christian nationalism” was still a fairly new idea on the scene, I wrote a column at WORLD titled, “What does ‘Christian nationalism’ even mean?” Almost three years later, we have the advantage of looking backward to see how the drama around “Christian nationalism” has unfolded. As I said in 2022, the
- [It’s OK to be a Christian conservative](https://andrewtwalker.com/its-ok-to-be-a-christian-conservative/) - I’m approaching 40, which means I came of age at a time in American evangelicalism where putting distance between conservative politics and Christianity was a very, very popular trend. It is not an exaggeration to say that one of the defining hallmarks of my evangelical adolescence and early career experience was defined by not being
- [All grace, no nature](https://andrewtwalker.com/all-grace-no-nature/) - There’s a quiet irony unfolding in the evangelical church today. After decades of lamenting cultural decay, many Christians like me are watching with fascination, and some degree of caution, as the broader culture shows signs of a rightward shift after the 2024 election. This week, Axios put out what I can only call a
- [No halfway revolution](https://andrewtwalker.com/no-halfway-revolution/) - There is an air of triumphalism in many corners of the American right since Donald Trump’s re-election and inauguration. After years of feeling like political and cultural underdogs, victories are stacking up. Even progressives at the New York Times are admitting the right’s current momentum. Trump critic Bill Mahar even admits that Trump is not
- [You can love your family and your neighbor](https://andrewtwalker.com/you-can-love-your-family-and-your-neighbor/) - Christian ethics often appear paradoxical at first glance. We are called to love indiscriminately yet also to prioritize certain relationships. We are commanded to show mercy to strangers yet also to provide for our own households first. These tensions are not contradictions but rather a framework for rightly ordered love—one that reflects the very heart
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: 5 things the guys did last week, VP Vance's remarks on Christianity in society, and empathy with Joe Rigney](https://andrewtwalker.com/5-things-the-guys-did-last-week/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: Dean trades the cave for Canada, 5 year anniversary of COVID, and answering listener questions](https://andrewtwalker.com/dean-trades-the-cave-for-canada/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: Vance/Zelensky Beef, Dems in the Wilderness, NYT Says We’ve Bottomed Out](https://andrewtwalker.com/vance-zelensky-beef/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: Wheaton is Not Like Us, Answering Listener Questions, and the Return of Plastic Straws](https://andrewtwalker.com/wheaton-is-not-like-us/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: Trump's Executive Order on IVF, Free Speech, and MEGA!](https://andrewtwalker.com/trumps-executive-order-on-ivf/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: Trump Floods The Zone, USAID, King David on Amazon](https://andrewtwalker.com/trump-floods-the-zone/)
- [Restore biblical justice: Correcting the misleading narrative on foreign aid](https://andrewtwalker.com/restore-biblical-justice/) - Recent discussions surrounding cuts to USAID have prompted an essential question for Christians and citizens alike: What is the proper role of government in distributing aid abroad? International assistance from the United States government to impoverished nations is often portrayed as an act of justice, such that a failure to administer aid is a failure
- [Biden was progressivism’s Chernobyl](https://andrewtwalker.com/biden-was-progressivisms-chernobyl/) - Now a former president of the United States, Joe Biden is a figure who embodied not only the frailty of advanced age but also the advanced decline of the broader progressive project. He exited office with progressivism in utter shambles, perhaps in its weakest position since the late 1970s. Even progressives are admitting this. The
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: Entering the Golden Age with President Trump: Talking all things Inauguration Day](https://andrewtwalker.com/entering-the-golden-age-with-president-trump/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: The California Wildfires, Remembering President Carter, and America is SO back!](https://andrewtwalker.com/the-california-wildfires/)
- [So I’m going on sabbatical…](https://andrewtwalker.com/so-im-going-on-sabbatical/) - The Trustees of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary have generously granted me a sabbatical from February 1, 2025-July 31, 2025. This is the first sabbatical of my academic career, and I’m very grateful that the institution I am blessed to serve at carves out space for its faculty to devote themselves with full focus to
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: Tragedy in New Orleans, Greenland the 51st state, and Zuckerberg with Nathan Leamer](https://andrewtwalker.com/tragedy-in-new-orleans/)
- [Championing the truth](https://andrewtwalker.com/championing-the-truth/) - Some quotes we come across in our lives serve as continual reminders of what matters and what should guide our lives, particularly as Christians. William F. Buckley Jr. (one of my intellectual heroes) once made the following observation about the place of truth in history: “The most casual student of history knows that, as a
- [How Social Conservatives Can Make the Most of a Second Trump Administration](https://andrewtwalker.com/how-social-conservatives-can-make-the-most-of-a-second-trump-administration/) - In American politics, social conservatives often feel as though our voices are silenced amid the cultural shifts and policy priorities that favor progressivism. Even though Donald Trump is not someone naturally associated with social conservatism, and there are reasons for disappointment about certain concessions he has made, the reality of a second Trump administration offers
- [Jimmy Carter and America’s Double Standard For Celebrating Christianity](https://andrewtwalker.com/jimmy-carter-and-americas-double-standard/) - People are widely praising President Jimmy Carter’s Christian faith after his passing, a reaction that reveals a telling double standard in how elites treat different expressions of Christianity. For example, a Washington Post writer declared, “For Jimmy Carter, faith was inseparable from politics and life.” The Hill wrote, “Jimmy Carter was the Christian most politicians
- [A Spike in Bible Sales on Morning Wire](https://andrewtwalker.com/morning-wire-1-2-25/) - Many thanks to Megan Basham for having me on Morning Wire to talk about the upsurge in Bible sales. That’s a good indicator of spiritual searching amid the empty lies of secularism.
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: A Holiday Special with two pastors, an ethics professor, and a political operative!](https://andrewtwalker.com/a-holiday-special-24/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: The Drones / Madison Shooting / Teetsel, Trump and Lincoln](https://andrewtwalker.com/the-drones-madison-shooting/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: Entering the Ambivalent World with Seth Troutt / Luigi the Vigilante vs. Morality](https://andrewtwalker.com/entering-the-ambivalent-world/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: Pardon Me, Hunter Biden? / The Mayor's Return / What happens in Europe doesn't stay in Europe](https://andrewtwalker.com/the-bully-pulpit-pardon-me-hunter-biden-the-mayors-return-what-happens-in-europe-doesnt-stay-in-europe/)
- [A cry for cohesion](https://andrewtwalker.com/a-cry-for-cohesion/) - The consensus among my right-leaning friends and me is that the reelection of Donald Trump against an elite consensus that pulled no punches in trying to keep him from office may be the most significant political realignment in our lifetimes. A new mood is afoot in the country, and those of us who spend
- [No arrogance. No cowardice.](https://andrewtwalker.com/no-arrogance-no-cowardice/) - A new game is unfolding on social media among the evangelical commentariat. It goes something like this: If you, as an evangelical, did not vote for Donald Trump, your job is to gloatingly berate Trump-voting evangelicals for each of the president-elect’s Cabinet picks that run counter to the values of evangelicals, like one of his
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: THANKSGIVING SPECIAL: Has Anyone Seen Dean / Appointments Disapointment / Tariffs](https://andrewtwalker.com/thanksgiving-special-has-anyone-seen-dean/)
- [On abortion, Trump is his own worst enemy](https://andrewtwalker.com/why-progressivism-destroys-everything-3/) - I cannot think of a worse moment in my life to be a fervent pro-life voter. There is no denying the obvious: Abortion is popular in America. Every time abortion has been on state ballots, it has lost decisively. Now, seeking to expand their coalition for a win in November, Donald Trump and J.D. Vance
- [Why Evangelical Political Theology Needs a Nature-Grace Upgrade](https://andrewtwalker.com/why-evangelical-political-theology-needs-a-nature-grace-upgrade/) - During the Nazi party’s rise in the 1930s, a document was adopted by the Confessing Church in Germany known as the Barmen Declaration. The statement affirmed the church’s allegiance to Jesus Christ as its one true head and rejected the idea that other powers, ideologies, or leaders could claim ultimate authority over Christian faith and
- [Yet another assassination attempt?](https://andrewtwalker.com/yet-another-assassination-attempt/) - Two assassination attempts. Two. Not since President Gerald Ford had two attempts on his life in 1975 has our nation broached similar territory. How extraordinary—and appallingly sad—that another column on a second assassination attempt is warranted. There was, after all, an attempted assassination on the life of former President Donald Trump back on July 13.
- [A Parent's Guide to Talking with Kids About Gender](https://andrewtwalker.com/a-parents-guide-to-talking-with-kids-about-gender/) - A Convoluted Term We have a very close family friend named Allie.1 Allie does not “fit the profile” of every feminine stereotype. She’s physically tougher than most women we know (and perhaps, a lot of men). She has tattoos. She has a physically demanding job where she builds furniture. She’s just as comfortable in shorts
- [Why do Democrats have a masculinity problem?](https://andrewtwalker.com/why-do-democrats-have-a-masculinity-problem/) - One of the most intriguing narratives arising out of the 2024 election is the growing gender gap in how men and women identify politically. Men, especially young men, are becoming more conservative, and women are becoming more liberal. As The New York Times recently reported, men are also becoming more religious. Media reports exist aplenty
- [Three truths for this year’s election](https://andrewtwalker.com/three-truths-for-this-years-election/) - Election Day is coming up fast. I cannot write everything I would like to say about how Christians should think about this election, but I do want to lay down three principles that should guide us as we walk into the voting booth. First, creation order is on the ballot. When we look at Genesis
- [A Parent's Guide to Talking with Kids about Political Engagement](https://andrewtwalker.com/three-truths-for-this-years-election-2/) - by Andrew T. Walker, Christian Walker Wrong Approaches to Politics We should be clear about something: as important as political engagement is, no earthly political utopia is possible. Politics on this side of heaven often amounts to mitigating the effects of sin more than it does to ensuring the perfect political community. But realistic expectations
- [“First, do no harm” in the voting booth](https://andrewtwalker.com/first-do-no-harm-in-the-voting-booth/) - In medicine, doctors adhere to the historic maxim: “First, do no harm.” This principle is as simple as it sounds: Medical doctors should use their powers to heal, never harm. It is a principle that applies just as much to governance and public policy as it does to medicine. It would be counterintuitive, after all,
- [Same song, second verse](https://andrewtwalker.com/same-song-second-verse/) - The data is still getting sorted, but evangelical Christians appear to have overwhelmingly voted for a second term for Donald Trump. Both The Washington Post and CNN report that 82% of white evangelicals voted for him. In the aftermath of Trump’s first election in 2016, the often referred to figure of 81% of evangelicals who
- [Our Daughters Deserve Better Than Abortion](https://andrewtwalker.com/our-daughters-deserve-better-than-abortion/) - One of the more baffling lines of thinking that emerged in our election was that parents were voting for the rights of their daughters to have abortions. Yard signs that read “Vote Like Your Daughter’s Rights Depend On It” checkered neighborhoods, including mine. As the father of three daughters myself, it is more than a
- [The Suicidal Ends of Secular Compassion](https://andrewtwalker.com/the-suicidal-ends-of-secular-compassion/) - Britain Takes First Step Down a Deadly Path with Legalization of Assisted Suicide On Friday, millions around the world watched on in horror as Britain’s Parliament took historic steps to legalize assisted suicide. Hailed as a carefully tailored law that would prevent abuses common in other countries with euthanasia regimes, the bill passed with a
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: Moral Deportation Policy /Josh Howerton’s Viral Sermon / Get Married, Have Kids, Fight the SYSTEM](https://andrewtwalker.com/moral-deportation-policy/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: Pessimists were WRONG, Life on The Ballot, and What Comes Next](https://andrewtwalker.com/pessimists-were-wrong-life-on-the-ballot-and-what-comes-next/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: Black Male Voting Patterns, Men for Kamala, Media Analysis](https://andrewtwalker.com/black-male-voting-patterns/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: The Washington Post’s (lack of) Endorsement, Trump on Rogan, Election Strategies w/ Henry Olsen, & Final Predictions](https://andrewtwalker.com/the-washington-posts-lack-of-endorsement/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: Call Kamala Daddy, Election Expectations, and Angsty White People Middle-Class Problems](https://andrewtwalker.com/call-kamala-daddy-election-expectations/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: J.D. Vance Breakdown, Ray Ortund’s Questionable Decision, War and Floods](https://andrewtwalker.com/andrew-vs-matt-walsh-2/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: Andrew vs. Matt Walsh, Biblical Deception, and Yet Another Attempt on Trump](https://andrewtwalker.com/andrew-vs-matt-walsh/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT (EP. 1): Meeting the Squad, Joy at the DNC, and 1 Minute With an Evangelical for Harris](https://andrewtwalker.com/meeting-the-squad/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: Trump's Statement on Abortion, Trust in Media, and the Dismissal of the Constitution by the HRC President](https://andrewtwalker.com/trumps-statement-on-abortion/)
- [THE BULLY PULPIT: Debate Reactions, Missing Cats in Ohio, and Low T Voters](https://andrewtwalker.com/debate-reactions/)
- [Why free speech should be a Christian priority](https://andrewtwalker.com/why-free-speech-should-be-a-christian-priority/) - For the last 15 years, challenges to religious freedom have been unceasing. Too many controversies—and Supreme Court cases—could be spoken of to make this point. In response, advocacy for religious liberty has been an urgent priority for Christians. We must maintain our vigilance for religious liberty with urgency.Religious freedom is inextricably linked, though, with freedom
- [Why progressivism destroys everything](https://andrewtwalker.com/why-progressivism-destroys-everything/) - Do you ever wonder why everything progressivism touches eventually rots? While some may question the exact correlation-causation link I am making, the rearview mirror of history seems to tell us a very plain truth: The preponderance of progressive ideas and influence in society corresponds to statist and authoritarian government, decadent and perverse morality (especially sexual
- [The veepstakes and the sanctity of life](https://andrewtwalker.com/the-veepstakes-and-the-sanctity-of-life/) - If you are anything like me, you were deeply disheartened over the weekend at hearing Sens. J.D. Vance and Marco Rubio concede significant ground on the subject of abortion during various news interviews. This comes on the heels of the possibility of the Republican Party taking steps to weaken its pro-life stance in its 2024
- [Policy is character, too](https://andrewtwalker.com/policy-is-character-too/) - Rhetorical restraint is a virtue one must exercise when writing. There comes a time, however, when stories surface that test the limits of one’s restraint. One such test is the revelation from The New York Times of the Biden administration’s attempt to remove the age restrictions at which children and teenagers can access “gender-affirming care.”
- [You are not your desires](https://andrewtwalker.com/you-are-not-your-desires/) - It is a cultural myth that December is America’s most religious month. It is not, if we define religiosity by what truly grips the affections of the country’s elite. June is now our most religious month. June is when the parades and symbology of America’s primary religion flowers: the religion of sexual transgression. December is
- [Christian ethics and moral symmetry](https://andrewtwalker.com/christian-ethics-and-moral-symmetry/) - Christian morality is a respecter of no tribe or alliance. Faithfulness to Christ requires that we apply Biblical truth to every dimension of life, including our political life and social media. It is not simply that I agree with the content of Christian ethics. I love how Christian ethics works as a theory. Our ethical
- [Can the Tao Save Western Civilization?](https://andrewtwalker.com/can-the-tao-save-western-civilization/) - Written in collaboration with Hunter Baker A couple of weeks ago, journalist Jonah Goldberg penned a column, “The Fierce Urgency of Tao,” for the Dispatch. We both loved it. Goldberg appealed to what we think is one of the most important books ever written, C. S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man, published in 1943. There Lewis
- [No, it’s still not right](https://andrewtwalker.com/no-its-still-not-right/) - Depending on your age, same-sex “marriage” may be as quintessentially American as baseball and apple pie at this point. That was what I came away with after reading Molly Ball’s Wall Street Journal report on how same-sex nuptials have transformed the American landscape. In her telling, the transformation has been a stunning success, winning wide
- [Elite universities are beyond repair](https://andrewtwalker.com/elite-universities-are-beyond-repair/) - In recent months, I was invited to speak at a law school on the subject of religious liberty. My host—a progressive, but an old-school free-speech progressive—warned me: “It’s up to you, but I would stay away from anything related to LGBT issues or Israel. I’ll be frank with you: If you bring those issues up,
- [The Wax Nose of Neighbor Love](https://andrewtwalker.com/the-wax-nose-of-neighbor-love/) - “Neighbor love,” “loving one’s neighbor,” and “love for one’s neighbor” are everywhere in Christian discourse about social ethics. How could they not be? The principle comes from our Lord Jesus Christ in such places as Matthew 19:19 and 22:37–39, Mark 12:30–31, and Luke 6:31. Last year, I wrote a long-form essay explaining the moral logic of loving
- [We’re all incrementalists now](https://andrewtwalker.com/were-all-incrementalists-now/) - It has been a week of crushing setbacks for the pro-life movement. On Monday, former President Donald Trump released a video in which he stated that abortion ought to be an issue worked out in the states, thus signaling that a second Trump administration would not pursue a gestational abortion ban at the federal level.
- [The Biden White House really went there](https://andrewtwalker.com/the-biden-white-house-really-went-there/) - Sometimes, there is no guesswork to determine the direction of the modern Democratic Party’s moral compass. They come out and tell you, and it is blasphemous. Yesterday, March 31, was designated by the Biden White House as “Transgender Day of Visibility.” If you read WORLD Opinions, you also celebrated Easter yesterday. The White House recognizing
- [Leave the Bible alone](https://andrewtwalker.com/leave-the-bible-alone/) - If you are a Christian, familiarity with the Constitution and Declaration of Independence is good. America’s founding was, after all, doubtlessly influenced by its heavily Protestant character. If you are a Christian, familiarity with the Bible is even more important. We rely on God’s Word to sustain us in our daily relationship with Christ. The
- [Our two-fold task](https://andrewtwalker.com/our-two-fold-task/) - Whatever policies result in the aftermath of the Alabama Supreme Court’s decision that effectively granted frozen embryos the legal status as other children, here is one sure reality: Pro-life Americans have been caught largely flat-footed by the decision, unaware of the deep moral complexities tied to in vitro fertilization. Not only are many flat-footed, but
- [Progressivism on the big screen](https://andrewtwalker.com/progressivism-on-the-big-screen/) - The much-discussed Rob Reiner-produced God & Country documentary is now in theaters and the final product confirms how the documentary was marketed. It’s a biased vilification of conservative Christians that is little more than an exercise in fanning progressive wrath. Admittedly, the documentary landed a few good punches in its criticisms. Did it rightly call
- [“He Gets Us” almost, but not quite](https://andrewtwalker.com/he-gets-us-almost-but-not-quite/) - I know I run the risk of being “that guy”—the seminary professor egghead who is just a little too fussy, especially when it comes to making a criticism. I’m always sensitive to what one of my former professors used to say when it comes to evangelism: “I like the way I’m doing it better than
- [A Christian Guide to Political Engagement](https://andrewtwalker.com/a-christian-guide-to-political-engagement/) - A free resource for Christians facing an election year “The Nations Belong to God: A Christian Guide for Political Engagement” is a resource written to help Christians facing an election year. This guide is a starting point for Christians to think about how to engage the political processes around them. Every election is about getting
- [Look out—they’re coming!](https://andrewtwalker.com/look-out-theyre-coming/) - There is an episode of The West Wing where Air Force One has a malfunction while trying to land. The press secretary does not want the press on the plane to know of the malfunction, so she creates a diversion. While a fighter plane flies by on one side of the plane to check whether
- [The mind virus is finally breaking](https://andrewtwalker.com/the-mind-virus-is-finally-breaking/) - Over the last decade, what Elon Musk calls the “woke mind virus” has infected the American mind. There are many aspects to what it means to be “woke,” but the parts comprising it are a stew of grievance, oppression, and identity politics. More could be said, of course, but for simplicity’s sake, wokeism is a
- [Can Evangelical Journalists Say Anything Good about Evangelicals?](https://andrewtwalker.com/can-evangelical-journalists-say-anything-good-about-evangelicals/) - The same column and the same argument are on repeat, it seems. The ability to receive critique is a mark of health. The tendency to give nothing but critique is not. I raise this question of critique because if anyone has followed along for the past two or three years, self-identified Evangelicals with elite-media platforms
- [Ethics must adorn our doctrine](https://andrewtwalker.com/ethics-must-adorn-our-doctrine/) - Christianity in the West is facing a theological crisis. This crisis represents nothing less than the integrity of the gospel in western Christendom. The crisis is this—the severing of Christian doctrine from Christian ethics. In recent months, we have seen this error surface within both Protestant evangelicalism and Roman Catholicism. This fall, popular Atlanta megachurch
- [Calling a black conservative “uncle” is acceptable?](https://andrewtwalker.com/calling-a-black-conservative-uncle-is-acceptable/) - We live at a moment in time where racism will quickly earn you public censure—and should. We can be glad for this moral development, particularly considering America’s sordid history on race relations. Racism is vile, sinful, and profoundly dumb. It robs human beings of what is theirs by virtue of being human beings created in
- [Pull the fire alarm: The new House speaker dares to be a Christian](https://andrewtwalker.com/pull_he_fire_alarm_the_new_house_speaker_dares_to_be_a_christian/) - The American project ended on Wednesday with the ascendency of Congressman Mike Johnson to speaker of the House. That’s what the political left is telling the American people. The carnival barkers who warn of so-called “Christian Nationalism” have fired up their presses to do what they always do—find yet additional justifications to ridicule and exclude
- [Unnatural behavior does not exist?](https://andrewtwalker.com/unnatural_behavior_does_not_exist/) - Occasionally, statements get made by important figures that, for individuals like me, a Christian ethics professor, do a great service. They just accidentally say what they truly mean with little possibility of confusion or misinterpretation. They reveal their underlying worldview. They do not disguise their beliefs. In an act of intellectual transparency, some say the
- [The GOP’s abortion evasion](https://andrewtwalker.com/the_gops_abortion_evasion/) - Wednesday night’s Republican debate had all the flare and fireworks one would expect. What I didn’t expect was the troubling and unsatisfying answers that Republican candidates gave on abortion. Now, before I identify what was said on Wednesday night and the problems with the positions that were spoken, let me acknowledge something upfront: The pro-life
- [The social conservative moment?](https://andrewtwalker.com/the_social_conservative_moment/) - Given the state of our culture, what I’m about to say may sound incredibly counterintuitive—maybe even bordering on the absurd. Nonetheless, I am left with the conviction that at this present cultural moment, there has never been a better time to be a social conservative. Given the advanced state of moral debauchery in mainstream American
- [True conservatism is not mere progressivism in slow motion](https://andrewtwalker.com/true_conservatism_is_not_mere_progressivism_in_slow_motion/) - American conservatism has many roots, but the modern conservative movement traces at last part of its heritage to a 1960 gathering of conservatives and a manifesto of principles they adopted. The Sharon Statement became a hallmark summary of the most fundamental principles of conservatism. One of the most notable passages in the Sharon Statement was
- [Were problems baked into the American cake?](https://andrewtwalker.com/were_problems_baked_into_the_american_cake/) - Following his widely acclaimed Why Liberalism Failed from 2018, Notre Dame political philosopher Patrick Deneen’s follow-up, Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future (Sentinel 2023), builds off his prior work explaining what ails contemporary America and how to fix it. According to Deneen, a “peaceful but vigorous” overthrow of standard accounts of America’s political tradition is
- [Fidelity to God: Our Highest Good](https://andrewtwalker.com/fidelity_to_god_our_highest_good/) - One of the most important sentences in the entire Western canon comes from Augustine. It is a statement written in the indicative voice that many are doubtless familiar with, given its ubiquity. From The Confessions, Augustine states, “Our hearts are restless until they find their rest in thee.” Though this sentence is an indicative statement
- [The glory of weakness](https://andrewtwalker.com/the_glory_of_weakness/) - If Michael J. Fox is synonymous with 1980s and 1990s cinematic blockbusters, he’s also now synonymous with being the public face for Parkinson’s disease. In the documentary, which pulls at the heartstrings all throughout (minus the expletives), you see a Michael J. Fox in his 60s and markedly regressing in his physical abilities. On screen,
- [Reason and morality are prior to the law](https://andrewtwalker.com/reason_and_morality_are_prior_to_the_law/) - The opening chapters of the Bible reveal three elements of creation order that are necessary for human civilization. These pillars, revealed in Genesis 1-2, are basic ingredients to survival and flourishing. A sane and just society would recognize them. Indeed, in times not so distant, our society—and its laws—did make that acknowledgment. The first is
- [What Is Natural Law and How Should It Be Used?](https://andrewtwalker.com/what_is_natural_law_and_how_should_it_be_used/) - Natural law theory refers to the idea that there is an external moral order that God has brought into existence. That moral order is an extension of God’s reason and God’s will, which he has knit into the fabric of the universe because of his eternal law. But it also refers to the fact that
- [Christians should pay taxes in gratitude](https://andrewtwalker.com/christians_should_pay_taxes_in_gratitude/) - Today is affectionately referred to as “Tax Day,” the filing deadline for Americans to pay what they owe in federal taxes. You know the joke, as Mark Twain would quote it, there are only two certainties in life: death and taxes. It is a common sentiment that no one likes paying taxes. “Taxation is theft”
- [God raised Him from the dead](https://andrewtwalker.com/god_raised_him_from_the_dead/) - The entirety of the Christian faith hinges on those historical events that took place in Jerusalem—events that sent shockwaves throughout the rest of recorded history. The climactic event was Jesus of Nazareth’s physical resurrection from death to life. According to Scripture, Jesus was not “raised to life in our hearts,” as theological liberalism proclaims, nor
- [What happened in Nashville that didn’t happen in Uvalde?](https://andrewtwalker.com/what_happened_in_nashville_that_didnt_happen_in_uvalde/) - I sat in my office this week and watched the bodycam video of Nashville police raiding the Covenant School in search of the shooter. In no statement of hyperbole, it may be the most surreal (but very real) video I have ever seen. It was so jarring that I could barely concentrate enough to go
- [The pursuit of unhappiness](https://andrewtwalker.com/the_pursuit_of_unhappiness/) - A major study from KFF–Washington Post has been released looking at the lives of transgender-identified Americans. The study boasts the largest results using random sampling, a method viewed as the gold standard for getting an accurate snapshot of current demographics. There are many takeaways from the report worth considering. As someone who studies the transgender
- [Let the government punish evildoers](https://andrewtwalker.com/let_the_government_punish_evildoers/) - The idea that morality should not be legislated is pure fiction. As much as we may want to tell ourselves that we do not legislate morality, all governments do. Someone’s morality is always legislated, because the very purpose of law is to secure justice for its citizens. The only question is whose morality will be
- [Secularism is a dark abyss](https://andrewtwalker.com/secularism_is_a_dark_abyss/) - In late February, a story that one might imagine in an Aldous Huxley novel occurred in Belgium. There, in euthanasia’s world capital, a person by the name of Genevieve Lhermitte was permitted to undergo euthanasia for what was called “persistent psychological suffering.” As this example demonstrates, Belgian law authorizing euthanasia is incredibly lax, and permits
- [Attention Fox News: The truth will set you free](https://andrewtwalker.com/attention_fox_news_the_truth_will_set_you_free/) - The 2020 election was not stolen. Believing it was stolen requires marshaling evidence to sustain such a claim. But time and time again, Trump-appointed judges dismissed lawsuits that alleged election tampering. Even President Trump’s own attorney general, William Barr, denies the election was stolen. Despite evidence never being produced to vindicate the claim of a
- [Resist the Post-liberal Temptation](https://andrewtwalker.com/resist_the_post-liberal_temptation/) - Pay attention to intellectual debates on, let’s broadly call it, “the right,” and you can easily come away with the impression that liberal democracy — the very foundation upon which the American experiments rests — is in intractable decline and inevitable collapse. Because definitions matter, liberal democracy in its usage here denotes a regime established to
- [The Moral Meaning of Loving One’s Neighbor](https://andrewtwalker.com/the_moral_meaning_of_loving_ones_neighbor/) - Few biblical phrases are as ubiquitous or have greater cultural standing than the biblical teaching to “love your neighbor” (see e.g., Matt. 19:19; 22:39). For the non-Christian, it may be the only moral truism he or she could identify as stemming from a cultural heritage informed by the Bible. No one to my awareness expresses disagreement
- [The Georgian Way](https://andrewtwalker.com/the_georgian_way/) - In the aftermath of the 2016 election, the conservative coalition has seemed badly frayed and unable to reach a consensus on what it ought to stand for. Fortunately, Robert P. George, the conservative gadfly of Princeton University, who has labored with intellectual pluck and uncancellable fortitude in the conservative movement for almost 40 years, offers
- [Legislating against drag queen story hour](https://andrewtwalker.com/legislating_against_drag_queen_story_hour/) - The celebration of drag queens represents a deconstructionist revolt against the limitations of nature. Law should give it no public quarter.
- [Christian realism and the new GOP](https://andrewtwalker.com/christian-realism-and-the-new-gop/) - Big lessons from Milwaukee and the Republican National Convention
- [Yet another champion for “cultural Christianity”](https://andrewtwalker.com/yet-another-champion-for-cultural-christianity/) - Consider Elon Musk calling himself a “cultural Christian” in an interview with Jordan Peterson as confirmation of a thesis I am making with increasing frequency: Christianity—and Christianity alone—has the moral coherence to it that serves as a dam holding back the full force of progressive ideology. We dare not overlook the significance of this development.

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- [Liberty for All: Defending Everyone's Religious Freedom in a Pluralistic Age](https://andrewtwalker.com/book/liberty-for-all-defending-everyones-religious-freedom-in-a-pluralistic-age/) - Christians are often thought of as defending only their own religious interests in the public square. They are viewed as worrying exclusively about the erosion of their freedom to assemble and to follow their convictions, while not seeming as concerned about publicly defending the rights of Muslims, Hindus, Jews, and atheists to do the same.
- [God and the Transgender Debate: What Does the Bible Actually Say about Gender Identity?](https://andrewtwalker.com/book/god-and-the-transgender-debate-what-does-the-bible-actually-say-about-gender-identity/) - In the West, more and more Christians are coming across the topic of gender identity in their everyday lives. Legislative changes are impacting more and more areas of life, including education, employment and state funding, with consequences for religious liberty, free speech and freedom of conscience that affect everyone. So it’s a crucial moment to
- [Social Conservatism for the Common Good: A Protestant Engagement with Robert P. George](https://andrewtwalker.com/book/social-conservatism-for-the-common-good-a-protestant-engagement-with-robert-p-george/) - Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, is one of the most influential conservative intellectuals of his generation. Among many honors and accolades, George received the US Presidential Citizens Medal from President George W. Bush and served as chairman of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). Though a Catholic
- [ Baptist Political Theology](https://andrewtwalker.com/book/baptist-political-theology/) - Baptist ideals like the separation of church and state have indelibly shaped Western democracies, and Baptist thinkers continue to influence public policy and political engagement today. Yet the historical contours, enduring commitments, and current contributions of Baptist political thought are little understood. Baptist Political Theology, edited by scholars Thomas Kidd, Paul Miller, and Andrew Walker,
- [Faithful Reason: Natural Law Ethics for God’s Glory and Our Good](https://andrewtwalker.com/book/faithful-reason-natural-law-ethics-for-gods-glory-and-our-good/) - Description: Many evangelical Christians have faith in the Bible, but struggle with confidence in its ethical principles. Some believe that biblical morals are not as effective as secular ideologies in promoting human well-being and societal progress. Others feel that using the Bible as a basis for moral arguments lacks persuasive power in public discussions. In
- [What Do I Say When . . . ?: A Parents' Guide to Navigating Cultural Chaos for Children and Teens](https://andrewtwalker.com/book/what-do-i-say-when-a-parents-guide-to-navigating-cultural-chaos-for-children-and-teens/) - Answers to Tough Cultural Questions Presented to Christian Parents Navigating the world for the first time can be challenging, especially when popular cultural beliefs contradict the teachings of Scripture. So when inevitable questions arise, parents must be equipped with sound biblical answers to guide their children through the complexities of modern life—because if we fail

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