Christian reconstructionist preacher P. Andrew Sandlin has been a faculty member for[…]Blackstone Legal Fellowship[…]
Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) described the Blackstone program as a way for Christians to “recover the robust Christendomic theology of the 3rd, 4th, and 5th centuries.” Since its inception, the program has trained nearly 3,000 law students, some of whom clerked for federal judges, and hosted lectures by prominent conservatives including Justice Amy Coney Barrett[…]
Sandlin has advocated confrontational political tactics he calls “Christian counterpunching,” which includes support for “legally armed citizens” defending Confederate monuments

In a 2020 article, Sandlin wrote: “The Bible doesn’t merely prohibit capitulation to evil: it demands opposition to evil. The Christian attitude may never be, ‘Abortion and statism and homosexuality and human trafficking and pornography and socialism and Black Lives Matter and Cultural Marxism and secular libertarianism are evil, and I won’t participate in them, but I can’t or won’t do anything to stop them.’ No. We’re called not just to avoid evil, but to expose it and oppose it. Evil packs a punch. We counterpunch”[…]
[In a 1994 article] Sandlin bemoaned the lack of militancy in the prayers of contemporary Christians. “In our increasingly sentimental and syrupy Christianity, imprecatory prayers have all but disappeared,” he wrote. “Where are the earnest prayers for God to cast down the secularists from their seats, to unseat unjust judges, and to destroy abortionists?”[…]
The comments are consistent with Sandlin’s writings on the justification for violence to protect the “judicially innocent.” In 2015, Sandlin elaborated on this belief in a blog post for the CCL titled “Pistol Packin’ Jesus?”: “Love means defending, with lethal force if necessary, those unjustly drawn to death. Lovelessness means not defending them with lethal force. In that scenario, not to kill is not to love”