Andrew T. Walker

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Andrew T. Walker, Ph.D., is a Fellow in the Evangelicals and Civic Life Program at The Ethics and Public Policy Center. He is also the Dean of the School of Theology and Professor of Christian Ethics and Public Theology at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, and the founding Managing Editor of WORLD Opinions. He co-hosts The Bully Pulpit, a weekly podcast exploring faith, culture, and politics from a conservative Christian perspective.

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Andrew T. Walker, Ph.D., is a Fellow in the Evangelicals and Civic Life Program at The Ethics and Public Policy Center. He is also the Dean of the School of Theology and Professor of Christian Ethics and Public Theology at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, and the founding Managing Editor of WORLD Opinions. He co-hosts The Bully Pulpit, a weekly podcast exploring faith, culture, and politics from a conservative Christian perspective.

Walker’s research and writing focus on Christian ethics, public theology, and the common good, with particular interests in natural law theory, bioethics, human dignity, church-state relations, and social conservatism. His commentary has appeared in or been cited by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, POLITICO, The Atlantic, and The Los Angeles Times, among others. He contributes regularly to National Review, First Things, WORLD Opinions, The Gospel Coalition, and Public Discourse.

He is the author of several books, including the award-winning God and the Transgender Debate (2nd ed.), Faithful Reason: Natural Law Ethics for God’s Glory and Our Good, The Nations Belong to God, and the award-winning Liberty for All: Defending Everyone’s Religious Freedom in a Secular Age. He co-authored What Do I Say When…? A Parent’s Guide to Navigating Cultural Chaos (Crossway, 2024) with his wife, Christian, and has edited three academic volumes, including Social Conservatism for the Common Good and Five Views on the Natural Law (co-edited with Ryan T. Anderson). His forthcoming book, Prodigal Culture: A People in Ruins and the Way Back Home (Crossway, November 2026), is his next book.

Walker holds a B.A. from Southwest Baptist University and an M.Div., Th.M., and Ph.D. in Christian Ethics from Southern Seminary. He has completed additional studies at the Witherspoon Institute and the James Madison Program at Princeton, and is pursuing graduate work in bioethics at Harvard University. In 2023, he received the Heritage Foundation’s inaugural Freedom and Opportunity academic award.

He serves on the preaching team at Highview Baptist Church and leads a weekly community group. He lives in Louisville with his wife and three daughters.

Follow him on X: @andrewtwalker or his personal website: andrewtwalker.com.

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Common-Good Communism?

Andrew Walker

Let’s have a common-good conservatism defined by the rich tapestries of religion, family, and civil society — not common-good collectivism or, worse, common-good communism.

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National Review Online / March 1, 2022

Religious Liberty Is Not ‘Christian Nationalism’

Andrew Walker

Obscuring important constitutional principles in service to lazy labeling does no service to the common good; all it does is undermine it.

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Baptist Press / February 22, 2022

A Conspiracy Against Truth

Andrew Walker

Christians should give no quarter to falsehoods.

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WORLD Opinions / January 13, 2022

The Light Has Dawned

Andrew Walker

What Christians celebrate at Christmas is that this Word, this grand-ordering Logos, became flesh—that the very organizing principle of the universe that Jordan Peterson is grasping for is not a mystery, but revealed.

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WORLD Opinions / December 23, 2021

The First Rule of Law: Protect the Innocent

Andrew Walker

The response to the obtuse, rogue constitutionalism set forth in Roe and cemented by its progeny in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, is not to jettison constitutionalism. It is, instead, to return to a just constitutionalism—one that interprets the Constitution according to text, structure, and original meaning.

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WORLD Opinions / December 9, 2021

Celebrate the Rule of Law

Andrew Walker

In the controversial cases involving Kyle Rittenhouse and the killers of Ahmaud Arbery, both juries succeeded. Both trials showed the wisdom of the jury system.

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WORLD Opinions / November 29, 2021

Defining “Evangelicalism” Down

Andrew Walker

The confusion over the word “evangelicalism” and the ensuing plasticity of the label is truly tragic and leads to unhelpful categorization, theological malpractice, and no small amount of internal strife within evangelical Christianity.

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American Reformer / November 3, 2021

Against Catacomb Christianity

Andrew Walker

If Christian truth claims are true, we must not cordon off those truth claims in the catacombs, but instead take them to city gates and capitol buildings of our world.

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American Reformer / October 18, 2021

Thirty Years on the Supreme Court

Andrew Walker

Justice Clarence Thomas is the embodiment of both an American and Augustinian paradox: Through setback can come triumph, and through grit and independence can come a retrieval of America’s constitutional ideals.

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World Magazine / October 16, 2021

Why the Transgender Revolution Can’t Transcend Human Nature

Andrew Walker

A new report from Europe confirms males have an innate advantage in sports.

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A Radical and Revealing Abortion Bill

Andrew Walker

No language can give an adequate description of the moral hideousness of the abortion bill recently passed with a party-line vote in the House of Representatives.

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World Magazine / October 4, 2021

You’re Never Progressive Enough

Andrew Walker

The ACLU’s editing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg reveals an ever-shifting ideology.

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World Magazine / September 30, 2021