What does it mean to be a conservative? Is it about having the right opinion on certain social issues?

Is it supporting certain economic policies? Or is it simply voting for the right candidates?

In our interview today, I'm having a conversation with Robert P. George and Andrew Walker

about religious liberty,

the common good, and the true heart of conservatism. Robert George currently serves as McCormick

Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and

Institutions at Princeton University, and he is widely considered to be one of the

most influential conservative intellectuals of his generation.

Andrew Walker serves as Associate Professor of Christian Ethics at the Southern Baptist Theological

Seminary and an associate dean at the School of Theology.

He also leads the Carl F.H. Henry Institute for Evangelical Engagement, is a fellow with

the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and is the editor of a new book with Crossway entitled

Social Conservatism for the Common Good, a Protestant Engagement with Robert P. George.

Let's get started.

Well, Robert and Andrew, thank you so much for joining me on the Crossplay podcast today.

Matt, it's good to be with you.

It's a pleasure to be on. Thank you.

Robbie, so you're widely considered to be one of this generation's leading conservative thinkers.

I don't know how that makes you feel to hear

someone articulate it like that, but I think that's fair to say that's a general way of thinking

about you. And your list of credentials is pretty robust. And I just wanted to know a few highlights

for those who don't know you already. You hold multiple degrees from Harvard and Oxford. You served as chairman of the U.S.

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