As soldiers of Christ, we are to surrender to unbelievers at every level. Carlos Chung, Master’s Seminary Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, [b]ut such as keep the law contend with them. Proverbs 28:4 One of the most pernicious theologies in Christian history is a piously argued surrender to evil. It pollutes life, [...]
Author: P. Andrew Sandlin
I am president of the Center for Cultural Leadership, core faculty of the Blackstone Legal Fellowship and the H. Evan Runner International Academy for Cultural Leadership, and De Yong Distinguished Visiting Professor of Culture and Theology, Edinburg Theological Seminary. I am happily married to Sharon Lynn Sandlin (nee Habedank) and have five adult children and three grandchildren.
The Gospel Coalition’s Bamboozling Act
The Gospel Coalition (TGC) has been increasingly tolerant of and sympathetic toward the “social justice warriors.” Thabiti Anyabwile (aka Ron Burns), for example, champions leading tenets of Cultural Marxism (CM) under TGC rubric. He declared that whites should collectively repent for assassinating Martin Luther King, Jr. (Yes, he did write that.) So we shouldn’t be [...]
A Note on the Current Protestant Revival of Classicism, Scholasticism, and Natural Theology
Dr. Sandlin, Do you know what's driving the resurgence of Classical Apologetics, Neo-platonism, and the subsequent reaction against worldview within Reformed circles? I'm seeing more and more of this on FB posts, footnotes, books, etc. Otherwise trustworthy and respectable pastors/theologians are pushing this. What's worse, it seems they're promoting it as if the early presup[positional] [...]
Our Romantic Moment
Henry Fuseli’s Romantic horror masterpiece The Nightmare (1781) Ours is a culture lush in Romanticism, but to grasp it we need to know what it was a reaction against: the European Enlightenment. [1] The Enlightenment began in full force in the 18th century. It was best defined by Immanuel Kant as man’s liberation from his [...]
Justice Glossary
Social justice: You get to blame males, whites, Christians, and heterosexuals for all the evils of the world, while depicting everybody else as their victims. Economic justice: You get to legally steal money from people wealthier than you while wrapping yourself in a robe of disinterested morality. Sexual justice: You get to commit any consensual [...]
Make Christianity Great Again
Christians are quick to blame secularists and neo-pagans for the cultural marginalization of our Faith, but much of it is due to our own timidity, compromise, and cowardice. Before he ascended, our Lord charged the first Christians to disciple the nations (Mt. 28:18–20). It was a bold charge that demands a bold life and message. [...]
God Doesn’t Hide Behind Jesus Christ
If we want to know more about the Father than we can learn from the Son, we’re on a fool’s errand. Once a young woman who had suffered degrading sexual abuse as a child and had been battered by evil men and was living in squalor and poverty finally made her way as a last [...]
