Introducing Eikon 7.1 (Spring 2025)

CBMW’s latest installment of Eikon (7.1) features essay from Jon Whitehead, Alan Branch, and Katy Faust. This Spring 2025 issue focused on the the family and parental rights. As Executive Editor Jonathan E. Swan writes in the Editorial:

The topic of parenting and the rights of parents is even more relevant now than we had previously realized. In light of these recent developments, we hope in this issue of Eikon to set forth a biblically-informed vision of parenting, shedding light on the rights of parents, along with their role and responsibility to raise their child “in the discipline and instruction of the Lord” (Eph 6:4). To this end, Colin Smothers has drawn up a summary of biblical principles on parental rights. Jonathan Whitehead reasons through the rights of parents and the role of government in an analysis of current Supreme Court cases. This issue also features articles from Tedd Tripp, C.R. Wiley, Joel Beeke, and Mark Coppenger, who provide historical, practical, and theological perspective on raising children. Readers will also benefit from Josh Blount’s insightful analysis of Abigail Shrier’s Bad Therapy and Jonathan Haidt’s Anxious Generation, two important books that have much to commend in their diagnosis of the issues plaguing America’s adolescents.

If you would like a print copy of Eikon, you can subscribe to receive each Spring and Fall issue. A digital copy (pdf) of the print edition is also available for free. Links to each essay in blog format are provided below in the Table of Contents.

TABLE OF CONTENTS | Eikon 7.1

1. Family Under Fire | Editorial, Jonathan E. Swan
2. A Return to Protestant Catechesis | Ancient Paths Jonathan E. Swan
3. Principles on Parental Rights and Child Flourishing | Colin J. Smothers
4. The Law and Parental Rights | Jon Whitehead
5. Our Pronatalist Moment: A Christian Evaluation | David Closson 
6. Confronting the Empathy of Surrogacy | Katy Faust 
7. Surrogate Motherhood: A Christian Ethical Analysis | Alan Branch 
8. Infertility and the “Package Deal” of Marriage, Sex, and Procreation | Emma Waters 
9. Parenting as Shepherding | Tedd Tripp
10. How to Raise Adults | C.R. Wiley 
11. Biblical Roles in Parenting: Help from the Puritans | Joel R. Beeke 
12. Critical Race Theory, Toxic in the Home | Mark Coppenger 
13. The Necessity of a Male Savior: A Dogmatic Account of Gender Essentialism | Kyle Claunch and Michael Carlino
14. Is Nicaea Enough?: On Moral Revisionism and Appeals to the Creeds | Matthew Y. Emerson and Brandon D. Smith
15. A Critique of Karen B. Keen’s Hermeneutical Method | Andrew Slay

Book Reviews

1. Smartphones, Therapists, and Your Kids: A Review Essay | Josh Blount
2. Becoming the Pastor’s Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman’s Path to Ministry, Beth Allison Barr (Reviewed by Anne Kennedy)
3. The Intentional Father, Jon Tyson (Reviewed by Doug Ponder)
4. To Change All Worlds, Carl Trueman (Reviewed by Robert Lyon)
5. Tell Her Story, Nijay Gupta (Reviewed by Jordan Atkinson)
6. Metaphysics & Gender,  Michele Schumacher (Reviewed by Drew Sparks)
7. Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs, Josh Hawley (Reviewed by Jeremiah Greever)
8. On Classical Trinitarianism: Retrieving the Nicene Doctrine of the Triune God, Matthew Barrett (Reviewed by Jonathan Master)