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Andrew T. Walker is an Associate Professor of Christian Ethics at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
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I’m currently in Grand Rapids, Michigan attending the Acton Institute’s “Acton University”—an annual four-day conference focused, broadly, around two topics: Religion and Liberty. Acton is often
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In late May, I spent a week studying the intersection of faith, justice, and civil society at The Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. Heritage, as many of you are no doubt familiar with, is America’s premier conservative think tank on issues relating […]
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Jennifer Rubin, The Washington Post’s conservative beat reporter, has an all-out assault on Rick Santorum’s constitutional views—going so far as to call him “constitutionally illiterate” and
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Below is a video featuring Dr. Robert George, noted ethicist, jurist, and political philosopher discussing the social impact of America having enshrined pornography in its culture for the past 50 years. Of interest to readers of Mere Orthodoxy is George’s […]
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As I mentioned earlier in the week, there's been a great discussion going over at Bensonian.org on Terry Eagleton's book Why Marx Was Right. As
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Christopher Benson at Bensonian.org, has unveiled his introductory post on the blog tour of Terry Eagleton’s newest book, Why Marx Was Right. Organized by Yale University Press, Christopher’s site will have four different reactions each to a different chapter of […]
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This week, Mere-O unveiled its interview with Mark Tooley. As with the rest of our content, we hope that you found Tooley’s responses insightful and encouraging. In most settings, interviews often raise more questions than they answer. We hope our […]
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AW: Who is your all-time favorite political philosopher? Theologian? Do the two ever inform the other? MT: John Locke would seem to be the most important philosopher of Anglo-American limited government. As a Methodist, of course John Wesley is my […]
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AW: As a political conservative, where has evangelicalism failed in your opinion? MT: Obviously, evangelicals were mostly late to the resistance against abortion on demand. Too many, I think, confused
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AW: Can you describe the way in which your Christian worldview has informed your political worldview? MT: My Christian worldview is that humanity is by nature totally depraved and completely dependent on God’s grace. Political arrangements that ignore this realty […]
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Last September, Matthew Anderson and I journeyed to Washington D.C. for the annual Values Voter Summit. While there, we had the privilege of having a late night dinner with Mark Tooley, President of The Institute on Religion and Democracy. The […]
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Like I said in this week’s post, talk of “rights” is an equivocation and wholly unconvincing when the “right” in question curries moral disapproval by large swaths of the population. In the case below, one man’s rights can often trample the […]
