P. Andrew Sandlin, an ordained minister in the Fellowship of Mere Christianity, Preacher at Church of the King-Santa Cruz, Theological Consultant for ACT 3, and De Yong Distinguished Visiting Professor of Culture and Theology, Edinburg Theological Seminary, is president of the Center for Cultural Leadership. He founded CCL in 2001 with the conviction that only eminently equipped cultural leaders will actually create a new Christian culture — and that only transformed Christians can transform the present anti-Christian culture of the West.
Andrew was born into a devout Christian home. He has been preaching and teaching for 30 years. A consummate eclectic, Andrew has been a pastor, assistant pastor, youth pastor, Sunday school superintendent, Christian day school administrator, home school father, foundation’s executive vice president, journal editor, scholar, author and itinerant speaker.
Andrew is a gifted communicator and has written several monographs and books, including The Full Gospel: A Biblical Vocabulary of Salvation; Totalism: God’s Sovereign Claims in All of Life; Christianity: Bulwark of Liberty; New Flesh, New Earth: The Life-Changing Power of the Resurrection; Un-Inventing the Church: Toward a Modest Ecclesiology, The Birthday of the King, and Dead Orthodoxy or Living Heresy?; and hundreds of essays and articles, both scholarly and popular. He edited A Faith That Is Never Alone: A Response to Westminster Seminary in California (published by CCL’s theological imprint, Kerygma Press). He was recently asked to present the Christian perspective on global ecology in the prominent secular humanist publication Free Inquiry. His next scheduled books are Young Faith, Obedient Faith: A Festschrift for Norman Shepherd, and The Old-Time Religion and Its Enemies. He has preached and lectured throughout the United States and overseas.
An interdisciplinary scholar, he holds a B. A. in English, history, and political science (University of the State of New York); he was awarded an M. A. in English literature (University of South Africa); he has taken doctoral work in English (Kent State University); and he holds a doctorate in Sacred Theology summa cum laude (Edinburg Theological Seminary). He is a member of the Evangelical Theological Society.
He is married and has five adult children and three grandchildren.
