Editor’s Note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2020 issue of Eikon. “It doesn’t matter who you click with,” declared a 2017 tweet from KLM Royal Dutch Airlines in 2017. Accompanying the tweet were three pairs of rainbow-colored seat belt ends: the first pair had two female ends facing each other, the second two...

Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2020 issue of Eikon. Introduction The Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA) is an evangelical denomination of roughly 2,000 churches and 500,000 members in the United States. A. B. Simpson started the movement in the late nineteenth century as a multi-denominational coalition of Christians and churches committed...

Editor’s note: The following interview appears in the Fall 2020 issue of Eikon. Robert P. George is the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. Andrew T. Walker is Associate Professor of Christian Ethics at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and the Executive...

Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2020 issue of Eikon. The Ancient Paths In his commentary on the King James rendering of 1 Corinthians 11:14 (“Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?”), the eighteenth-century Baptist autodidact John Gill observed...

Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2020 issue of Eikon. This brief essay considers the main thesis of the book, Kingdom through Covenant, and the relation of that thesis to human sexuality.[1] Understanding human sexuality entails grasping first, what it means to be human, and second, what is the purpose and role...

Editor’s Note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2020 issue of Eikon. Introduction When most people hear the name Shania Twain, they think of one song: “Man! I Feel Like a Woman!” The lyrics concern the freedom of women to do whatever they want in terms of dress, partying, and having fun. The title...