• Colin Smothers serves as Executive Director of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood. He holds a Ph.D. in Biblical Theology from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, where has also taught adjunctly. He also holds a Master of Divinity from Southern Seminary and a B. S. in Industrial Engineering from Kansas State University. Colin is married and has five children.

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  • Principles on Parental Rights and Child Flourishing

    Editor’s Note: The following article appears in the Spring 2025 issue of Eikon. God’s creation of mankind as male and female in His image grounds human dignity, undergirds the institution of marriage, and establishes the natural family...

    Colin Smothers  /  June 19, 2025  /  CBMW  /  Authority, Parenting, Politics

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  • Editorial: Some Things Never Change (6.1)

    Editor’s Note: The following article appears in the Spring 2024 issue of Eikon. The Greek philosopher Heraclitus (535–475 BC) famously quipped, “There is nothing permanent except change.” From one angle, we can understand what he...

    Colin Smothers  /  June 18, 2024  /  CBMW  /  Complementarianism

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  • On the State of Complementarianism in the PCA (Todd Pruitt)

    Editor’s Note: The following article is part of a multi-denominational forum on the state of complementarianism and appears in the Spring 2024 issue of Eikon. Q: What do you believe the Bible teaches about God’s...

    Colin Smothers  /  June 6, 2024  /  CBMW  /  Complementarianism

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  • Responding to Christianity Today‘s April 2024 Gender Cover Story

    Editor’s Note: The following series of articles appear in the Spring 2024 issue of Eikon. Part I: Denny Burk, “Do Egalitarians Need Safe Spaces?” Part II: Tom Schreiner, “Are Husbands and Wives Addressed in 1...

    Colin Smothers  /  April 29, 2024  /  CBMW  /  Complementarianism

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  • Editorial: The Toxic War on Fatherhood

    Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2023 issue of Eikon. Editorial The Apostle Paul teaches in Ephesians 3:15 that from God the Father is named “every family in heaven and on earth.”...

    Colin Smothers  /  November 21, 2023  /  CBMW  /  Eikon

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  • Rejecting Gender Essentialism to Embrace Transgenderism?: A Response to Christa McKirland, “Image of God and Divine Presence”

    Some errors are explicit and easy to spot, while others are not stated in so many words and only manifest by way of implication. Christa McKirland’s chapter falls squarely in the first category. Historically, egalitarians...

    Colin Smothers  /  June 22, 2023  /  CBMW  /  Eikon

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  • NEWS: CBMW Publishes Gender and Sexuality Curriculum with FRC

    LOUISVILLE, KY – Tuesday, March 14th marks the official release day of CBMW’s new curriculum, Male and Female He Created Them. CBMW President Denny Burk and Executive Director Colin Smothers have teamed up with David...

    Colin Smothers  /  March 14, 2023  /  CBMW  /  News and Announcements

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  • On the Nashville Statement

    Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2022 issue of Eikon. Five years ago this Fall, a group of evangelical leaders met in a conference room in Nashville to give a particular response...

    Colin Smothers  /  November 17, 2022  /  CBMW  /  Eikon

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  • Five Years Later: A Symposium on the Nashville Statement

    Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2022 issue of Eikon. The Nashville Statement on Biblical Sexuality was released on August 29, 2017 with initial signatures from over 150 leaders spanning the evangelical...

    Colin Smothers  /  November 17, 2022  /  CBMW  /  Eikon

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  • Tyndale House Interview with Wayne Grudem

    Dr. Wayne Grudem, CBMW co-founder and board member, recently sat down for and interview in Cambridge, England with the Principal of Tyndale House, Dr. Peter Williams. They discussed how to have a lifelong faithful ministry,...

    Colin Smothers  /  July 11, 2022  /  CBMW  /  Ministry

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  • Pride Comes for the Kids

    The appalling effort to sexualize kids by progressive LGBT activists accelerated this past week when the world learned of a “Drag Your Kids to Pride” event being held at Mr. Misster, a gay nightclub in...

    Colin Smothers  /  June 6, 2022  /  CBMW  /  LGBT

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  • For the Family

    Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Spring 2022 issue of Eikon. The theme for this issue of Eikon is human society’s bedrock institution, the family. It doesn’t take a Ph.D. to notice that...

    Colin Smothers  /  May 23, 2022  /  CBMW  /  Eikon

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  • That Was Then, This Is Now: Aimee Byrd Preaches Her First Sunday Morning Sermon

    Less than ten years ago, in 2013, Aimee Byrd wrote an article for Reformation21 called, “What’s the Difference Between Women Preaching and Women Blogging?” On the whole, the article is a thoughtful response to a...

    Colin Smothers  /  March 9, 2022  /  CBMW  /  Complementarianism

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  • C. S. Lewis, “Complementarian”

    A few years back, I drew attention to C. S. Lewis’s “complementarian” argument on the question of ordaining women to the priesthood in the Anglican church. I would encourage everyone to read Lewis’s original essay,...

    Colin Smothers  /  February 10, 2022  /  CBMW  /  Complementarianism

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  • Introducing Fall 2021 Eikon

    Today is the release of the Fall 2021 issue of Eikon: A Journal for Biblical Anthropology. This is now our sixth issue under the new masthead. This issue and past issues can be accessed at...

    Colin Smothers  /  November 22, 2021  /  CBMW  /  Eikon

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  • They, Them, Godself? Human Pronouncements and Divine Pronouns

    Editor’s note: This article has been updated with a statement from FBC Elm Mott. The pronoun is a basic concept of grammar first learned by intuition and later catalogued by name in the elementary years....

    Colin Smothers  /  November 4, 2021  /  CBMW  /  Theology

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  • “Marriage: A Creation Gift” by Clint Pressley

    Colin Smothers  /  October 8, 2021  /  CBMW  /  Marriage

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  • A Dark Day in America: US House Passes Most Radical Abortion Bill to Date

    Today is one of the darkest days in American politics. Weep for our country before it is too late. After revising its standing rules to exclude all gendered language earlier this year, the US House...

    Colin Smothers  /  September 24, 2021  /  CBMW  /  Abortion

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  • Biden Administration Boosts Transgender Agenda to Kids

    Last month, the Biden Administration’s Department of Education teamed up with the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice and the Department of Health and Human Services. What could bring such august departments of...

    Colin Smothers  /  September 24, 2021  /  CBMW  /  Transgenderism

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  • On the Body and Its Meaning

    Editor’s note: the following essay appears in the Spring 2021 issue of Eikon. Charles Taylor argues that modernity has stripped the created world of its meaning: “The cosmos is no longer seen as an embodiment of meaningful...

    Colin Smothers  /  June 8, 2021  /  CBMW  /  Eikon

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  • In Their Own Words: SBC Candidate Forum on Complementarianism (Mike Stone)

    As Southern Baptists prepare for their annual meeting in June, four men are set to be nominated as candidates for President of the convention: -Randy Adams, Executive Director of the Northwest Baptist Convention -Ed Litton,...

    CBMW, Colin Smothers  /  May 19, 2021  /  CBMW  /  Complementarianism

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  • In Their Own Words: SBC Candidate Forum on Complementarianism (Randy Adams)

    As Southern Baptists prepare for their annual meeting in June, four men are set to be nominated as candidates for President of the convention: -Randy Adams, Executive Director of the Northwest Baptist Convention -Ed Litton,...

    Colin Smothers  /  May 19, 2021  /  CBMW  /  Complementarianism

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  • In Their Own Words: SBC Candidate Forum on Complementarianism (Ed Litton)

    As Southern Baptists prepare for their annual meeting in June, four men are set to be nominated as candidates for President of the convention: -Randy Adams, Executive Director of the Northwest Baptist Convention -Ed Litton,...

    Colin Smothers  /  May 19, 2021  /  CBMW  /  Complementarianism

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  • In Their Own Words: SBC Candidate Forum on Complementarianism (Albert Mohler)

    As Southern Baptists prepare for their annual meeting in June, four men are set to be nominated as candidates for President of the convention: -Randy Adams, Executive Director of the Northwest Baptist Convention -Ed Litton,...

    Colin Smothers  /  May 19, 2021  /  CBMW  /  Complementarianism

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  • Weep for the Children

    “The ultimate moral test of any government is the way it treats three groups of its citizens. First, those in the dawn of life — our children. Second, those in the shadows of life —...

    Colin Smothers  /  February 25, 2021  /  CBMW  /  Abortion, Transgenderism

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  • Gender Neutrality Goes to Washington

    At some point in the past decade, the battle of the sexes seems to have given way to a war on the sexes. Last month, the Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi enlisted the...

    Colin Smothers  /  February 9, 2021  /  CBMW  /  Sex

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  • Nashville Statement Translated into Arabic

    LOUISVILLE, KY: When the Nashville Statement was published in 2017, its architects’ main purpose was to help form the confessional identity of Christians on the contested issues of gender and sexuality. In the ensuing years,...

    Colin Smothers  /  February 8, 2021  /  CBMW  /  News and Announcements, The Nashville Statement

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  • CBMW’s Most-Read Articles in 2020

    With 2020 drawing to a close, my glance back through CBMW’s most-read articles in 2020 was an exercise in reacquainting myself with Einstein’s theory of relativity. So much has happened, so much change has taken...

    Colin Smothers  /  December 30, 2020  /  CBMW  /  News and Announcements

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  • Nature vs. Transgenderism

    Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2020 issue of Eikon. In his book Begotten or Made?, Oliver O’Donovan sets about excavating the epistemological foundations that undergird the modern conscience. Originally delivered as...

    Colin Smothers  /  November 20, 2020  /  CBMW  /  Eikon

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  • Decentering Marriage

    Editor’s Note: This article is an excerpt from CBMW’s November 2020 Newsletter. To receive our monthly ministry updates in your inboxes, you may sign up here. As the institution of marriage continues to implode in...

    Colin Smothers  /  November 16, 2020  /  CBMW  /  Marriage

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  • Transgender Tide Rising

    A moment of Copernican proportions aired on prime-time TV last week in America, but your average viewer probably didn’t bat an eye. In fact, it was designed to be rather unremarkable, right at home with...

    Colin Smothers  /  October 21, 2020  /  CBMW  /  Transgenderism

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  • Why I Am a Complementarian

    One of the many challenges confronting complementarians today is trying to avoid sounding too much like a broken record. In the face of a veritable cottage industry of egalitarian publishing, which perennially puts out new...

    Colin Smothers  /  August 10, 2020  /  CBMW  /  Complementarianism

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  • Marriage in Rapid Decline, Even Among Evangelicals

    The current cover story for Christianity Today  is nothing short of alarming. I did a double take when I read this statistic in the article by sociologist Mark Regnerus: “According to a Census Bureau survey...

    Colin Smothers  /  July 30, 2020  /  CBMW  /  Marriage

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  • Overwhelming Majority of Evangelicals Support Women Preachers

    A recent article from Christianity Today should have our attention: “Researcher: Most Evangelicals Support Women in Church Leadership.” As the summary explains, “Despite the ongoing debates over gender roles, surveys show significant agreement in favor of...

    Colin Smothers  /  July 30, 2020  /  CBMW  /  Complementarianism

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  • Recovering Bavinck’s “The Christian Family”

    Editor’s Note: The following essay appears in the Spring 2020 issue of Eikon. Imagine, if you will, a divinely-designed institution perfectly tuned toward maximal human flourishing — dynamic, responsive, devoted, fecund, nurturing. Now consider any...

    Colin Smothers  /  June 10, 2020  /  CBMW  /  Eikon

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  • Introducing Spring 2020 Eikon

    I am very excited to announce the release of our Spring 2020 issue of Eikon: A Journal for Biblical Anthropology. At just under 200 pages of brand new content, including several original essays, interviews, and...

    Colin Smothers  /  June 10, 2020  /  CBMW  /  News and Announcements

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  • PCA Committee Releases Human Sexuality Report, Signals Agreement with Nashville

    Last year in Dallas, amidst an ongoing controversy surrounding Side-B “Gay Christianity” and the Revoice conference, the Presbyterian Church in America’s (PCA) General Assembly voted to commend CBMW’s Nashville Statement as a “biblically faithful declaration.”...

    Colin Smothers  /  May 28, 2020  /  CBMW  /  Homosexuality, The Nashville Statement

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  • Transgender Minority Report: UK Progress vs. US Progressivism

    Editor’s Note: The following article is excerpted from CBMW’s monthly newsletter, which you can receive in your inbox by signing up here. The United Kingdom has often served as a bellwether for the United States...

    Colin Smothers  /  May 6, 2020  /  CBMW  /  Transgenderism

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  • God, Family Worship, and Gender: An Interview with Marty Machowski

    In this episode, CBMW executive director Colin Smothers talks with pastor and author Marty Machowski about family worship, parenting, and gender. The resources mentioned in this podcast by Mart Machowski include his family devotional Long...

    Colin Smothers  /  March 13, 2020  /  CBMW  /  Family, Husbands & Fathers, Motherhood

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  • Is the Nuclear Family a Mistake?

    Editor’s Note: The following editorial is from CBMW’s March newsletter. Readers can subscribe here to receive our monthly ministry updates in your inbox. “There has never been a time when the family faced so severe...

    Colin Smothers  /  March 9, 2020  /  CBMW  /  Family

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  • PCA church hosts LGBT arts festival

    Editor’s Note: This story has been updated to include Memorial Presbyterian Church’s statement concerning The Chapel. Should a PCA church host a “short-play festival and celebration of transgender, agender, non-binary, genderqueer, and genderfluid artists”? That...

    Colin Smothers  /  March 5, 2020  /  CBMW  /  LGBT

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  • A Truth Worth Defending

    Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from the February 2020 edition of the CBMW Newsletter, a monthly ministry update that features exclusive editorial content from CBMW Executive Director Colin Smothers. We are posting part...

    Colin Smothers  /  February 7, 2020  /  CBMW  /  Current Events, Homosexuality, LGBT, Transgenderism

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  • Don’t Miss the New 9Marks Journal on Complementarianism

    The evangelical world was given a gift this week when the ecclessiology-focused ministry 9Marks released their latest journal dedicated entirely to the issue of complementarianism. If you consider yourself a complementarian — and even if...

    Colin Smothers  /  December 11, 2019  /  CBMW  /  Complementarianism, News and Announcements

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  • Fathers, love your family through family fun and worship

    Fathers, love your family through family fun and worship As a father of five, it is easy for me to get discouraged about my personal failings as a dad. I don’t spend enough time with...

    Colin Smothers  /  December 9, 2019  /  CBMW  /  Family, Fatherhood

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  • R. Albert Mohler Jr. on the State of Complementarianism

    Editor’s Note: Below is an interview with Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr., president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. In the interview, CBMW asks Dr. Mohler about the state of complementarianism and the hermeneutical issues...

    Colin Smothers  /  November 20, 2019  /  CBMW  /  Eikon

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  • Statement Against Female Conscription

    Editor’s note: In 2016 the US Congress appointed a National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service to investigate the question of expanding Selective Service registration to all Americans, which would subject women to potential...

    Colin Smothers  /  November 20, 2019  /  CBMW  /  Eikon

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  • Creation and Discrimination: Why the Male-Female Distinction Makes a Difference

    World-renowned historian William Manchester could write in 1993 that “the erasure of the distinctions between the sexes is not only the most striking issue of our time, it may be the most profound the race...

    Colin Smothers  /  November 20, 2019  /  CBMW  /  Eikon

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  • British Tribunal: Belief in Genesis Incompatible with Human Dignity

    Western legal reasoning just crossed the Rubicon. In a unanimous decision handed down this week, an employment tribunal in England determined that a government employee’s sincerely held belief in Genesis 1:27 is incompatible with human rights...

    Colin Smothers  /  October 4, 2019  /  CBMW  /  Genesis 1–3, News and Announcements, The Nashville Statement

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  • Challenging “Gay Christian” Identity

    TGC recently published a fascinating interview with Becket Cook, a former Hollywood set designer in the fashion industry who was living an openly gay life. Cook left all that behind when he met Jesus —...

    Colin Smothers  /  August 23, 2019  /  CBMW  /  Homosexuality, The Nashville Statement

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  • Complementarianism and the Created Order

    What is it in Genesis 1 and 2 that Paul appeals to in order to ground male headship in 1 Corinthians 11:1–16 and 1 Timothy 2:8–15? CBMW executive director Colin Smothers recently went on the...

    Colin Smothers  /  August 21, 2019  /  CBMW  /  Complementarianism

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  • The Abolition of Men?

    I doubt whether we are sufficiently attentive to the importance of American boyhood. Two more mass shootings; this time in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio. Thirty-one dead and dozens more injured, more lives cut...

    Colin Smothers  /  August 12, 2019  /  CBMW  /  Manhood, Men

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  • James Stahr, Evangelical Churchman and Founding CBMW Council Member, dies at 93

    James A. Stahr (June 7, 1926—July 4, 2019), an evangelical churchman who was one of the original founding CBMW Council Members, died last week surrounded by his family in his home in Wheaton, IL. He...

    Colin Smothers  /  July 10, 2019  /  CBMW  /  News and Announcements

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  • News: PCA declares Nashville Statement “biblically faithful”

    DALLAS, TX — The Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) voted at its annual General Assembly last week to declare the Nashville Statement as a “biblically faithful declaration.” By this action, the PCA joins several other...

    Colin Smothers  /  July 1, 2019  /  CBMW  /  News and Announcements, The Nashville Statement

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  • The Fallacy of Interchangeability

    C.S. Lewis opens his 1948 essay, “Priestesses in the Church?” with an amusing exchange from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice:¹ I should like Balls infinitely better,” said Caroline Bingley, “if they were carried on in...

    Colin Smothers  /  June 5, 2019  /  CBMW  /  Eikon

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  • Holy Sexuality: An Interview with Christopher Yuan

    http://media.blubrry.com/danvers_audio/content.blubrry.com/danvers_audio/Holy_Sexuality_An_Interview_with_Christopher_Yuan.m4a Show Notes Christopher Yuan, DMin, has taught at Moody Bible institute for more than ten years, and his speaking ministry on faith and sexuality has reached five continents. He coauthored with his mother, Angela,...

    Colin Smothers  /  April 29, 2019  /  CBMW  /  Homosexuality, The Nashville Statement

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  • The Beauty of Biblically Broad Complementarianism | Kevin DeYoung at CBMW TGC19

    Colin Smothers  /  April 9, 2019  /  CBMW  /  Complementarianism

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  • What is a Christian Woman? An Interview with Abigail Dodds

    http://media.blubrry.com/danvers_audio/content.blubrry.com/danvers_audio/What_is_a_Christian_Woman_An_Interview_with_Agbigail_Dodds.m4a Show Notes Abigail Dodds (BA, Bethel University) is a wife and mother of five children. She writes and teaches Bible studies for the women at Bethlehem Baptist Church, where her husband, Tom, serves as...

    Colin Smothers  /  April 8, 2019  /  CBMW  /  Womanhood

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  • The Beauty of Biblically Broad Complementarianism | TGC19

    Kevin DeYoung speaks on the topic of “The Beauty of Biblically Broad Complementarianism” at CBMW’s TGC 2019 lunch event. DeYoung is a Reformed Evangelical theologian and author. He is married with 8 children, and he...

    Colin Smothers  /  April 4, 2019  /  CBMW  /  Complementarianism, Manhood, Womanhood

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  • African Methodism will not bow the knee to US progressivism

    Beginning on Saturday, nearly one thousand United Methodist delegates gathered in St. Louis to debate the issue of whether the UMC should revise their church’s doctrine and practice regarding same-sex marriage and LGBT clergy. They...

    Colin Smothers  /  February 23, 2019  /  CBMW  /  LGBT, The Nashville Statement

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  • CBMW Mailbag: Should I pursue marriage at a young age?

    Editor’s Note: CBMW receives a lot of questions at our office email, cbmwoffice@cbmw.org. As a staff, we try to answer as many of these as we can. Occasionally these questions and answers are applicable to...

    Colin Smothers  /  February 22, 2019  /  CBMW  /  CBMW Mailbag

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  • The Inevitable Capitulation in the UMC’s One Church Plan

    Next month, the United Methodist Church will meet in St. Louis to vote on what is being billed as the One Church Plan, a comprehensive measure recommended by the Council of Bishops that would revise...

    Colin Smothers  /  January 31, 2019  /  CBMW  /  Complementarianism, The Nashville Statement

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  • WORLD Interviews Denny Burk on the APA’s Controversial New Guidelines on Masculinity

    Is masculinity harmful to men and boys? Should masculinity be pathologized? According to new guidelines released this month by the American Psychological Association (APA), the answer seems to be yes. In a recent report on...

    Colin Smothers  /  January 16, 2019  /  CBMW  /  Fatherhood, Manhood, Men

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  • Learning to Love Thy Body: An Interview with Nancy Pearcey

    Colin Smothers  /  December 10, 2018  /  CBMW  /  Abortion, Homosexuality, LGBT, Marriage, The Nashville Statement, Transgenderism

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  • Transgenderism at the Evangelical Theological Society

    Editor’s Note: This blog post originally consisted only of Colin Smothers’ critique of Andy Draycott’s 2018 ETS presentation. Recently however, Draycott has offered a public statement retracting the argument made in his presentation. Dr. Draycott...

    Colin Smothers  /  November 19, 2018  /  Nashville Statement and LGBT issues, Series  /  The Nashville Statement, Transgenderism

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  • A Word to the Younger Men

    Editor’s Note: This post is the final part of a series. Previous posts include: “Men and Women in Household of God,” “A Word to the Older Men,” “A Word to the Older Women,” and “A...

    Colin Smothers  /  October 19, 2018  /  CBMW  /  Complementarianism

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  • Policing the Christian Language Police

    Alan Jacobs recently wrote a blog post lamenting the “Christian language policing” he has observed around the issue of “Gay Christianity,” which in part includes a discussion on whether it is prudent for Christians to...

    Colin Smothers  /  October 8, 2018  /  Nashville Statement and LGBT issues, Series  /  LGBT, The Nashville Statement

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  • Gender and Sexuality News Roundup (10/3/18)

    One mission we have at CBMW is to help Christians think through secular and ecclesial trends on gender and sexuality. Through this work, we pore over a lot of news reports and articles as we attempt...

    Colin Smothers  /  October 3, 2018  /  CBMW  /  News and Announcements

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  • Gender and Sexuality News Roundup (9/25/18)

    The articles below are from a wide variety of sectors and publications, organized generally into three categories. They are presented in aggregate, not necessarily endorsed. If you see an article that you think should be...

    Colin Smothers  /  September 25, 2018  /  CBMW  /  News and Announcements

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  • Gender and Sexuality News Roundup (9/18/18)

    The articles below are from a wide variety of sectors and publications, organized generally into three categories. They are presented in aggregate, not necessarily endorsed. If you see an article that you think should be...

    Colin Smothers  /  September 18, 2018  /  CBMW  /  News and Announcements

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  • Mary Eberstadt on Gay Identity

    Sixteen years ago, Mary Eberstadt wrote an article for The Weekly Standard about the unfolding sex abuse scandal that was roiling Roman Catholicism then. The title of the article, “The Elephant in the Sacristy,” referred to...

    Colin Smothers  /  September 17, 2018  /  Nashville Statement and LGBT issues, Series  /  LGBT, The Nashville Statement

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  • Gender and Sexuality News Roundup (9/12/18)

    The articles below are from a wide variety of sectors and publications, organized generally into three categories. They are presented in aggregate, not necessarily endorsed. If you see an article that you think should be...

    Colin Smothers  /  September 12, 2018  /  CBMW  /  News and Announcements

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  • Purpose and the human person: A review of Nancy Pearcey’s book “Love Thy Body”

    Editor’s Note: Colin Smothers interviewed Nancy Pearcey about her book Love Thy Body on CBMW’s podcast, Danvers Audio. You can listen to the interview here or wherever you get your podcasts. Other than being among the watershed...

    Colin Smothers  /  August 23, 2018  /  CBMW  /  Book Reviews

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  • Gender, Sex, and Revelation

    Sometimes a child or teenager flounders through development from boy to man, girl to woman. This struggle has come to be known as “gender dysphoria.” Most of the time – 80 to 95% according to...

    Colin Smothers  /  July 18, 2018  /  CBMW  /  Sex, The Nashville Statement, Transgenderism

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  • 2018 Viewbook

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    Colin Smothers  /  July 11, 2018  /  CBMW  /  News and Announcements

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  • Pursue God, Not Pornography | Sermon by Denny Burk

    Colin Smothers  /  June 28, 2018  /  CBMW  /  Pornography

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  • The Complementarian Argument of C. S. Lewis

    Ahead of the 1948 Lambeth Conference of the Anglican Communion, C. S. Lewis responded to an essay by Lady Marjorie Nunburnholme on the question of women’s ordination to the Anglican priesthood. Perhaps surprising to some, Lewis...

    Colin Smothers  /  June 26, 2018  /  CBMW  /  Complementarianism, Women in Ministry

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  • An Able Ally in an Ever-Changing Culture

    While the debate over whether the United States of America was founded as a Christian nation has good arguments on both sides, the fact that many original settlers came to America to escape a tyrannical...

    Colin Smothers  /  June 19, 2018  /  Articles  / 

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  • Listening to Beth Moore’s Open Letter

    Beth Moore recently published an open letter that male leaders in evangelical churches ought to pay attention to—especially those who claim to be in the complementarian camp. We need to read it, process it, and...

    Colin Smothers  /  May 3, 2018  /  CBMW  /  Men, Women

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  • “‘And the two shall become one flesh’: Thinking biblically about homosexuality and the covenant of marriage”: Sam Allberry at CBMW T4G18

    Colin Smothers  /  April 26, 2018  /  CBMW  /  The Nashville Statement

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  • “‘Male and female He created them’: Thinking biblically about transgenderism”: Denny Burk at CBMW T4G18

    Colin Smothers  /  April 26, 2018  /  CBMW  /  The Nashville Statement

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  • “Understanding the times; knowing what to do”: Albert Mohler at CBMW T4G18

    Colin Smothers  /  April 26, 2018  /  CBMW  /  The Nashville Statement

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  • “What does Nashville have to do with Danvers?” Ligon Duncan at CBMW T4G18

    Colin Smothers  /  April 25, 2018  /  CBMW  /  The Nashville Statement

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  • Christian sexual ethics is a gospel issue

    In his first letter to Timothy, Paul writes with a concern that surfaces right from the start of the letter and continues to the end: the preservation of sound doctrine. Paul’s instruction to Timothy concerning...

    Colin Smothers  /  April 20, 2018  /  Nashville Statement and LGBT issues, Series  /  Homosexuality, LGBT, The Nashville Statement

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  • T4G 2018 Pre-Conference Media

    Below you can view video from the CBMW T4G18 pre-conference, The Nashville Statement: A Coalition for Biblical Sexuality: Session 1: Ligon Duncan, “What does Nashville have to do with Danvers?” Session 2: Albert Mohler, “Understanding...

    Colin Smothers  /  April 18, 2018  /  Nashville Statement and LGBT issues, Series  /  The Nashville Statement

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  • What does the creation story teach about gender and sex?

    You’ve heard the argument before. Every youth pastor in America has probably encountered it in one form or another, perhaps in the teen who quips, “But the Bible doesn’t say anything about not smoking marijuana!”...

    Colin Smothers  /  March 22, 2018  /  CBMW  /  Genesis 1–3

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  • Gender and Sexuality News Roundup (2/23/18)

    Introducing CBMW’s periodical news aggregate: “Gender and Sexuality News Roundup.” The articles below are from a wide variety of sectors and publications, organized generally into three categories. They are presented in aggregate, not necessarily endorsed....

    Colin Smothers  /  February 23, 2018  /  CBMW  /  News and Announcements

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  • Toward Complementarian Clarity

    Tim Challies predicted that 2018 would bring further definition to complementarianism, and it took less than a month for an opportunity for such definition to arise. In late January, John Piper answered a question on...

    Colin Smothers  /  February 15, 2018  /  CBMW  /  1 Timothy 2

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  • Russell Moore Discusses the Nashville Statement on NPR

    On Tuesday, NPR’s nationally syndicated program, “On Point,” dedicated a segment to the Nashville Statement. In the segment, Russell Moore, President of the Ethics and Religious Liberties Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention and an...

    Colin Smothers  /  December 20, 2017  /  Nashville Statement and LGBT issues, Series  /  The Nashville Statement

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  • Daniel Fuller Signs the Nashville Statement

    On December 9th, Daniel Fuller added his signature to the Nashville Statement. Along with his signature, Dr. Fuller explains why he signed: “I signed the Nashville Statement because it represents the intended meaning of the...

    Colin Smothers  /  December 14, 2017  /  Nashville Statement and LGBT issues, Series  /  The Nashville Statement

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  • Arkansas Baptist State Convention affirms Nashville Statement “without equivocation”

    At the 164th annual meeting of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention (ABSC) last month, messengers from across the state approved a resolution to affirm the Nashville Statement on Biblical Sexuality. The resolution included excerpts from...

    Colin Smothers  /  December 6, 2017  /  CBMW  /  News and Announcements, The Nashville Statement

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  • Announcing the Winner of the 2017 Wayne Grudem Award for Complementarian Scholarship

    CBMW is pleased to announce that Dr. Al Wolters is this year’s winner of the Wayne Grudem Award for Complementarian Scholarship. He receives the award for his research on important Greek vocabulary in 1 Timothy....

    Colin Smothers  /  November 16, 2017  /  CBMW  /  News and Announcements

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  • “Church Clarity” or Biblical and Theological Clarity?

    [Image credit: Festoon Lighting Adelaide] A new organization called “Church Clarity” has formed in recent days with the purported mission to pressure churches to be clear on their websites as to where they stand on...

    Colin Smothers  /  October 19, 2017  /  CBMW  /  The Nashville Statement

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  • Nashville Statement | La Declaración de Nashville | Nashville Erklärung | 纳什维尔宣言

    In the days following CBMW’s release of the Nashville Statement on biblical sexuality, we received many emails from evangelicals across the globe wondering if we had plans to translate the Nashville Statement into other languages....

    Colin Smothers  /  October 11, 2017  /  CBMW  /  The Nashville Statement

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  • William Lane Craig: Nashville Statement “was fair; it was irenic; it was clear”

    Renown analytic philosopher and Christian apologist William Lane Craig recently released a podcast on why he signed the Nashville Statement, which is excerpted below: “I feel uncomfortable signing these sorts of statements because it can...

    Colin Smothers  /  September 25, 2017  /  CBMW  /  The Nashville Statement

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