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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
A Tale of Two Racisms
Biblical Christians, of all people, should not avoid or tiptoe around the issue of race. Shout it from the housetop without fear or favor: racism is anti-Christian. White supremacy is evil. Leftist identitarianism is evil. The idea that whites are superior to blacks is evil. The idea that whites are "structurally" racist is evil. The [...]
Wilberforce Conversations: What is Culture? What is Christian Culture?
My conversation with Paul Huxley on the meaning of culture and a new Christian is here.
“Deep Culture”: CCL Symposium Nov. 3
2018 Center for Cultural Leadership Symposium, San Francisco, Saturday, November 3 The symposium will be held at a lovely, scenic hotel overlooking San Francisco Bay. (To avoid unwanted press and controversy, we don’t publicly disclose the location. Let’s just say that our sociopolitical views are not in harmony with the predominant views in San Francisco.) Our symposium is [...]
Social Righteousness versus “Social Justice”
You can't embrace biblical justice without rejecting "social justice":
