This is thinking in public, a program dedicated to intelligent conversation about

front-line theological and cultural issues with the people who are shaping them.

I'm Albert Moller, your host and president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville,

Kentucky.

Andrew Walker is Associate Professor of Christian Ethics and Apologetics at Southern Seminary,

Dr. Walker, who earned his PhD from the institution, serves as Associate Dean in the School of

Theology, and as Executive Director of the Carl F.H. Henry Institute for Evangelical

engagement.

In addition to his teaching at Southern Seminary, Professor Walker is a research fellow at the

Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.

Prior to coming to Southern Seminary, Professor Walker was Senior Fellow in Christian Ethics

at the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, his most recent book, Liberty for All,

defending everyone's religious freedom in a pluralistic

age, surveys the theological and ethical foundations of religious freedom.

And that is the topic of our conversation today.

Andrew Walker, welcome to thinking in public.

Dr. Mueller, thank you so much.

It's a great honor to be with you today.

Over the course of, say, modern history and Europe and in the United States

religious liberty has sometimes been a matter of life and death but in more recent decades

I think Americans have had the luxury of believing that religious liberty is something of a legal

constitutional academic issue. You've written this book because you believe it to be far more than that.

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