A hard-hitting, whirlwind summary of the path of intellectual apostasy in the church and culture.

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Fundamentalism, modernism, scholasticism, and postmodernism are bad ways of interpreting the Bible.

The canonical or covenantal or worldview-ish way is the only right way. (There’s an unedited transcript.)

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Dear friends and supporters:

The “CultureChange” e-newsletter will be shorter than usual this week and next, and this week it’s a podcast addressing one of the greatest cultural problems Christianity faces, a problem that developed within the very bosom of Christianity. You won’t want to miss it. And if you enjoy it, please forward it to others.

Later this morning or afternoon, Sharon and I plan to drive into Canada to spend several days with our dear son Richard and daughter-in-law Samantha. Our last visit with them was pre-Covid, and I ask you to pray that we will be able to conform to all of the painstaking Covid protocols and that there will be no problem getting into Canada and getting back into the United States.

Thank you for your prayers and donations.

Yours for the Lord of the cosmoscope,

Founder & President, Center for Cultural Leadership

Will you consider a tax-deductible donation to CCL via PayPal or Venmo? Or mail a check to CCL, Box 100, Coulterville, CA 95311. God uses you to keep us going — and expanding.

Dear friends and supporters,

For a while I’ll be alternating the conventional CultureChange e-newsletter with an audio newsletter like this one, which is a sort of podcast. That should offer appeal both for those who prefer reading and for those who prefer listening — or both.

Today’s topic is one I addressed from a different angle many years ago in the old Chalcedon Report and that was reprinted here. I’ve wanted to revisit and revise it many times, and today’s post fulfills that desire.

If you benefit from it, why not share it?

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CCL publishes a unique bi-monthly hard copy newsletter available via USPS. The October article is “Cultural Bipolar Disorder.” If you’d like to get a copy for free, please private Facebook message me your surface mailing address or send an email to: sandlin[at]saber[dot]net.

Pious Unbelief is Still Unbelief

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We’re just putting finishing touches on plans to visit our son Richard and his wife Samantha in British Columbia in early October. We haven’t seen them since 2019, but the border is now open, though the numerous hoops through which we must jump to get there are onerous, and there’s still no guarantee we’ll get into Canada.

Richard earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of British Columbia in May 2020, and he’s soon to be ordained to the diaconate in the conservative Anglican Church in North America. He also teaches philosophy at Corpus Christi College. Sam is a digital designer and artist. She regularly gets commissions to paint in various media. Here’s a sample of one of her lush watercolors from several years ago:

Please pray with us that we can get into Canada to see our precious son and daughter-in-law.

I hope next week to write on “Statism as Toleration.”

Yours for Christ and His Kingdom,

Founder & President, Center for Cultural Leadership

The Chief Cultural Battlefield of Our Time is Sexual

"Acute and astringent, forthright and grim, this extended tract for the times calls Christians and churches to face the fact that the sexual disorder which America currently legitimates, radically and ruinously undermining marriage and family life, is a revolutionary tipping point in cultural apostasy, and to recant appropriately. Dr. Sandlin should be listened to; his case is, alas, compelling.“

J. I. Packer

Our broad thinking about life doesn’t just shape our view of human sexuality. Our view of human sexuality shapes the rest of our thinking. Western society’s sexual views and practices over the last few decades haven’t changed so dramatically only because the prominent worldview of our society has changed; our society has changed because its sexual worldview has changed.

This book is about why and how that change came about, how injurious it has been to our culture, and what Christians can do to reverse it. A distinctively Christian strategy for reversing the sexual revolution and its worldview is a restoration of a full-orbed, biblical faith in every aspect of thought and life.

You can order the e-book or paperback here.

More great stuff:

The Center for Cultural Leadership site is here.

My Amazon author page (print and digital) is here.

You can find my sermons and lectures at my YouTube channel.

Sign up to get my blog updates here.

Here’s my Twitter feed.

If you want to get the free exclusive hard copy publication Christian Culture, please send me a Facebook private message.

The CCL phone number is 831-420-7230.

The mailing address is:

Center for Cultural Leadership

P.O Box 100

Coulterville, CA 95311

Dear friends and supporters,

I’ve been wanting for weeks to address the topic of the two leading, competing views of Christian spirituality in history, and have finally been able to get around to it. I hope you benefit from it. If so, please share it with others.

Please keep reading the brief but important information below.

Read the article here.

Will you consider a tax-deductible donation to CCL via PayPal or Venmo? Or mail a check to CCL, Box 100, Coulterville, CA 95311. God uses you to keep us going — and expanding.

Saturday, December 4

Center for Cultural Leadership Annual Symposium in San Francisco

9 AM — 3 PM

Includes catered lunch in a four-star hotel on the Bay

Theme:

“Un-Virtuous Economics: Political Interventionism, Woke Capitalism, and Church Pietism”

Tentative presenters include David L. Bahnsen, Jerry Bowyer, Brian G. Mattson, Jeffery J. Ventrella, and me (P. Andrew Sandlin)

Since this isn’t a talking-head conference but a symposium, every attendee will get a chance to comment and share his views.

Hotel rooms available for early registrants. Airport hotel with easy, quick 24-hour shuttle.

This event is free, but it isn’t open to the public. It’s by invitation only. You get invited by contacting me (P. Andrew Sandlin) privately.

Seating is limited, but I hope to see many of you there.

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Sharon and I will be headed out of town to spend this holiday weekend with longtime friends. I pray just now that you’ll enjoy a memorable time with your family.

Next week’s tentative title for CultureChange is “The Fundamentalist Temptation.”

Heading into the fall, please consider a donation to CCL. We’re a 22-year-old, explicitly Christian think tank dedicated to influencing Christians to influence all of culture in a distinctly Christian way. By God’s grace, we’ve been successful. Please keep us forging ahead.

Thank you deeply for your consideration.

Yours for a godly, earthy spirituality,

Founder & President, Center for Cultural Leadership

The Church Desperately Needs a Creational Worldview

We sometimes hear the well-meaning exhortation, “Christianity doesn’t start with the Bible, but with Jesus Christ.” This might very well be true, but Christians must embrace biblical truth anterior to Christianity, and that is creation as the Bible describes it. Put another way: the Bible is bigger than Christianity. We will not understand his person and work in their greater depths if we bypass creation. This is a small book about not bypassing creation. It’s a book about thinking in creational categories, and purging contra-creational categories that infect our culture and, in too many cases, our churches.

You can order the e-book or paperback here.

More great stuff:

The Center for Cultural Leadership site is here.

My Amazon author page (print and digital) is here.

You can find my sermons and lectures at my YouTube channel.

Sign up to get my blog updates here.

Here’s my Twitter feed.

If you want to get the free exclusive hard copy publication Christian Culture, please send me a Facebook private message.

The CCL phone number is 831-420-7230.

The mailing address is:

Center for Cultural Leadership

P.O Box 100

Coulterville, CA 95311