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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Does Justice or Profit Drive Abortion?

Andrew Walker

Whether abortion continues or abates under the Texas Heartbeat Act is a valuable opportunity to unearth what is really at the center of abortion and why it receives the degree of protection it does in our country.

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The Texas Abortion Law Is Justice on Display

Andrew Walker

The Texas Heartbeat Act reflects a fundamental truth of human existence: Life is good and worthy of legal recognition and legal protection. This truth reflects what ought to be a clear implication of our Declaration and our Constitution—that abortion is unconstitutional.

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Kentucky Today / September 2, 2021

Common Sense Conservatism: An Interview with Tennessee Governor Bill Lee

Andrew Walker

EPPC Fellow Andrew T. Walker talks with Tennessee Governor Bill Lee about his governing philosophy and the future of conservatism.

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Public Discourse / July 24, 2021

Persuasion or Discipleship? Confidence, Creation, and Reconsidering Biblical Natural Law as a Strategy for Christian…

Andrew Walker

The West is in the throes of a convulsive death rattle, and there is to be no renovation to Western order apart from a rehabilitation of Christian natural law ethics. But before we seek to persuade others, we need to be persuaded ourselves.

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Why We Opposed an Anti-Abortion Resolution at the Southern Baptist Convention

Andrew Walker

EPPC Fellow Andrew T. Walker co-authored the following piece with several other Southern Baptist scholars, whose names and affiliations are…

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Public Discourse / June 22, 2021

Supreme Court Delivers Big Win for Religious Liberty

Andrew Walker

According to the Supreme Court, what the city of Philadelphia did in refusing to offer an exemption to Catholic Social Services violates the free establishment clause of the First Amendment because it forced CSS to choose between its mission and its convictions. That’s an unworkable solution at odds with our Constitution.

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Kentucky Today / June 17, 2021

Pride Month Calls for a Response of Joyful Truth from Christians

Andrew Walker

As culture presses against the church, we must lean even deeper into our faith and its millennia-old teachings with unwavering confidence.

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Baptist Press / June 3, 2021

INTERVIEW: Andrew T. Walker on Religious Freedom’s Importance for a Pluralistic Age

Andrew Walker

EPPC Fellow Andrew T. Walker speaks with Charles Camosy about the common good, Catholic versus Protestant understandings of religious freedom, and his new book, Liberty for All: Defending Everyone’s Religious Freedom in a Pluralistic Age.

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Crux / June 1, 2021

Thinking Christianly about Goods and Rights with Florida’s “Big Tech” Bill

Andrew Walker

The tension that Christians need to wrestle with is not dispensing with either procedural rights or substantive goods, but understanding how rights serve the good and under what conditions competing rights claims yield to particular goods, in this case, the good of knowledge and political discourse. There is no easy formula here. It is messy and is why Christians must think carefully about the responsibilities of a healthy social order.

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Interview with Andrew T. Walker: What Is Religious Liberty, and Why Is It Important?

Andrew Walker

In an interview with the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, EPPC Fellow Andrew T. Walker discusses his new book Liberty for All.

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Beshear Administration Discriminating Against Kentucky Baptist Adoption Provider

Andrew Walker

In Kentucky, the Beshear administration’s unbending commitment to the sexual revolution is forcing Sunrise Children’s Services to choose either the integrity of the organization’s convictions or its ability to serve children.

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Baptist Press / May 10, 2021

Could Religious Liberty Help End the Culture War?

Andrew Walker

The decline of religious liberty is a major reason our culture wars are so brutal. By looking to the government to adjudicate our divisions, we’ve outsourced debate on what is true or false.

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Newsweek / May 6, 2021