Religion and Culture Writer

Andrew Walker

5 articles 2017–2018

Andrew Walker is a scholar and writer focused on religion, culture, and religious liberty. He contributed to The Weekly Standard during 2017–2018, writing on topics including Christianity's place in public life, religious freedom, and the challenges facing faith communities in an increasingly secular culture.

Harvard Punishes Christian Student Group for Believing in Christianity

March 1, 2018 · culture war, culture, Christianity

The club’s transgression? The Crimson reports that the school’s Office of Student Life placed the group Harvard College Faith and Action on “administrative probation” because the group “pressured a female member . . . to resign in September following her decision to date a woman.”

Respecting Religion

August 1, 2017 · magazine_repost, Books and Art, Religious Freedom

No contemporary political issue is more emotionally fraught: The LGBT lobby, enjoying its new political ascendancy, worries that religious conservatives wish to diminish the self-definition and harm the dignity of the wider LGBT community; meanwhile, religious conservatives, feeling beleaguered,…

Respecting Religion

July 28, 2017 · Books and Art, Religious Freedom, LGBT

No contemporary political issue is more emotionally fraught: The LGBT lobby, enjoying its new political ascendancy, worries that religious conservatives wish to diminish the self-definition and harm the dignity of the wider LGBT community; meanwhile, religious conservatives, feeling beleaguered,…

One Man's Prescription for a Post-Christian Culture

March 3, 2017 · magazine_repost, Benedict Option, book reviews

According to Rod Dreher, Western culture is irretrievably lost. No amount of politicking or resistance-as-usual can turn back the tide of intellectual currents that began with the death of metaphysical realism in the 14th century, the idea that "the essence of a thing is built into its existence by…

Joy in the Mourning

March 3, 2017 · Benedict Option, book reviews, Christianity

According to Rod Dreher, Western culture is irretrievably lost. No amount of politicking or resistance-as-usual can turn back the tide of intellectual currents that began with the death of metaphysical realism in the 14th century, the idea that “the essence of a thing is built into its existence by…