Andrew Walker

1 week ago | firstthings.com | Andrew Walker

The 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 one of self-acclaimed hubris.

1 week ago | baptistpress.com | Karen L. Willoughby |Mark Maynard |Andrew Walker |Scott Barkley

Metadata:Topic(s): International News, PersecutionFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: YELEWATA, Benue (BP) – The 500 Christians had already fled terrorism at home and found temporary shelter in storefronts transformed into living quarters in downtown Yelewata. But as they slept overnight June 13, men identified as militant Fulani attacked from multiple sides.

1 week ago | baptistpress.com | Andrew Walker |Laura Erlanson |Karen L. Willoughby |Scott Barkley

Metadata:Series: First PersonEvent(s): 2025 SBC Annual MeetingTopic(s): SBC Annual Meetings, Theology & DoctrineFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: 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.

2 weeks ago | wng.org | Andrew Walker

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 commanding heights of culture, then we forfeit the opportunity to shape the broader moral imagination of our nation.

1 month ago | wng.org | Andrew Walker

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 vision and intellectual rigor demanded attention and engagement. I have quoted him in my books and writings several times.