The worship of man invades the holy sanctuary You might think that the last place you’d find humanism is in the church. But you’d be wrong. As early as the 2nd century, some of the church fathers wanted to make Christianity respectable to the wider, unbelieving society. They created a synthesis between the Christian Faith and [...]
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 Evangelical Singleness-Celibacy Paradigm Is Wrong
Evangelicals tend to be mimics. The surrounding apostate culture invents a trend, and evangelicals eventually adopt it, usually decorating it with a pious veneer. This is the case with the current widespread marginalization of and assault on marriage. Some moderns argue that ours is the best of times (or at least an improving time) for [...]
Creation: The Evangelical Failure
If you wonder why too many evangelicals are caving in to same-sex “marriage,” or "attraction," surrogacy, “gender fluidity,” and transgenderism, part of the fault lies in the DNA of evangelicalism itself. Evangelicals champion of the biblical evangel, the good news that Jesus Christ died for our sins and rose from the dead so that sinners [...]
First, the Kingdom
When Jesus cautioned his disciples not to be anxious over earthly provision but to seek first God’s kingdom, since the Father supplies their every need (Mt. 6:24–34), he was laying out God’s priority for his followers’ overarching life commitment. Loving God in the totality of our being is the first great commandment (Mk. 12:28–32). The [...]
Saccharine Piety
Religiosity is not religion, and piety untethered to the Bible, wafting to the heavens for both God and man to admire, is not true piety. It is saccharine piety, a sickly sweet religiosity that impresses the sentimentally superficial but earns the scorn of the godly and, more significantly, of God himself. It is a mark [...]
Why There’s No Longer Political Common Ground
With the increasing polarization and acrimony of American politics on stunning display in the Kavanaugh confirmation comes the understandable complaint that there’s no longer any middle ground between the two major parties. This observation is correct but usually not for the reasons assumed. It is generally assumed that this loss of middle ground is the [...]
Is God a Republican or Democrat?
The short answer is “no,” or “neither,” but this answer demands elaboration if it’s not to mislead. Pastor Tim Keller argues that Christians don’t fit into the present U. S. political party system and marshals reason why. I disagree. Keller and I both embrace Protestantism, one of whose distinctives is the final authority of the [...]
