Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Hope everyone is having a great day, a great week so far.

Today I am talking to Andrew Walker. He is a Christian ethics professor. He also worked

at World Magazine where I also write. He is an associate dean at the School of Theology

at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary as well and he has so much wisdom when it comes to

Christian ethics and how Christians should be engaging with the culture and with the political

realm. And so he's going to tell us today how do we balance not trusting too much in politics and

putting our hope too much in politics while also realizing it's an important world for us to

engage in and for us to understand. So without further ado, here is my friend Andrew T. Walker.

Andrew, thank you so much for joining us for those who may not know. Can you tell us who you are?

And what you do? Sure, my name is Andrew Walker and I'm a professor of Christian ethics at the

Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky and then also serve as managing editor

of the new project of World Opinions who is led by Dr. Albert Moller who is the president of my

institution and then I also serve as a fellow with the Ethics and Public Policy Center based in

Washington DC as well. But I currently call Louisville, Kentucky home and very privileged to do what I

get to do for my calling, which is to write and teach pastors and to train up individuals and the

moral witness of the Christian faith. And how have you become a public voice on the things that you

talk about? You're a professor so that obviously puts you in front of an audience but now you have

a pretty large audience. So how did you come into this world of political and cultural public commentary?

That's a good question. I would say it's almost a result of there just being very few people

willing to step into the arena. You know, Ali, I know you know this when you hear the statistics about

millennials and kind of the bad state of their biblical theological literacy and they're willing

this to step into the arena. What that ends up doing is creating a smaller number of people who

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