ARTICLES 20

  • A Return to Protestant Catechesis | Ancient Paths

    Editor’s Note: The following article appears in the Spring 2025 issue of Eikon. Children are a gift from the Lord. Instructing one’s children to follow the Lord is a sacred undertaking, filled with both deep challenges and...

    Jonathan Swan  /  June 19, 2025  /  CBMW  /  Children, Fatherhood, Motherhood, Parenting, Worship


  • Family Under Fire | Editorial 7.1

    Editor’s Note: The following article appears in the Spring 2025 issue of Eikon. Shortly after the oral arguments before the Supreme Court in United States v. Skrmetti this past December, we decided to devote significant space in...

    Jonathan Swan  /  June 19, 2025  /  CBMW  /  Authority, Family, Flourishing


  • Editorial: Enduring Natural Differences

    Editor’s Note: The following article appears in the Spring 2024 issue of Eikon. A very strange thing happened a couple of years ago. During Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Senate hearings for her appointment to the Supreme Court,...

    Jonathan Swan  /  November 25, 2024  /  CBMW  /  Complementarianism, Eikon, Manhood, Men, Womanhood, Women


  • Ancient Paths | A Monk’s Unlikely Marriage

    Editor’s Note: The following article appears in the Spring 2024 issue of Eikon. That an Augustinian monk and a nun would be credited with establishing the ideal of the Protestant family is truly one of the most...

    Jonathan Swan  /  November 25, 2024  /  CBMW  /  Eikon, Husbands & Fathers, Men, Motherhood, Singleness, Wives & Mothers, Womanhood, Women


  • Introducing Eikon 6.1 (Spring 2024)

    We are grateful to release the Spring 2024 issue of Eikon (6.1), which seeks to address a number of current conversations spanning a wide denominational breadth. In this issue, various authors respond to a recent Christianity Today magazine discussing...

    Jonathan Swan  /  June 18, 2024  /  CBMW  /  Eikon


  • Salters’ Hall Redux: Southern Baptists and the Law Amendment

    Editor’s Note: The following article appears in the Spring 2024 issue of Eikon. The church faces new challenges in every generation.[1] In the eighteenth century, for example, the English-speaking church faced intense theological attacks on...

    Jonathan Swan  /  June 6, 2024  /  CBMW  /  Complementarianism


  • Salters’ Hall Redux: Southern Baptists and the Law Amendment

    Editor’s Note: The following article appears in the Spring 2024 issue of Eikon. The church faces new challenges in every generation.[1] In the eighteenth century, for example, the English-speaking church faced intense theological attacks on...

    Jonathan Swan  /  June 5, 2024  /  CBMW  /  Complementarianism


  • On the State of Complementarianism in the SBC (Heath Lambert)

    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 design...

    Jonathan Swan  /  June 5, 2024  /  CBMW  /  Complementarianism


  • On the State of Complementarianism in the SBC (Heath Lambert)

    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 design...

    Jonathan Swan  /  June 5, 2024  /  CBMW  /  Complementarianism


  • On the State of Complementarianism in the SBC (Bart Barber)

    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 design...

    Jonathan Swan  /  June 3, 2024  /  CBMW  /  Complementarianism, Eikon


  • The Ancient Paths, John Gill’s Four P’s of Masculinity

    Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2023 issue of Eikon. A short time before his death, eighteenth-century London Baptist pastor John Gill (1697–1771) put the finishing touches on his monumental Body of...

    Jonathan Swan  /  November 21, 2023  /  CBMW  /  Eikon


  • Introducing Eikon 5.2 (Fall 2023)

    CBMW is thrilled to announce its tenth installment of Eikon with the release of the Fall 2023 issue. This edition of Eikon focuses on masculinity and features articles from James M. Hamilton Jr., Richard D. Phillips, Kevin DeYoung,...

    Jonathan Swan  /  November 21, 2023  /  CBMW  /  Eikon


  • The Unstable Logic of Egalitarianism: A Response to Ronald Pierce, “Biblical Equality and Same-Sex Marriage”

    Introduction Ronald Pierce has been engaged in the gender debates for decades.[1] As a contributor to this ongoing discussion, he has served as an editor to all three editions of Discovering Biblical Equality (DBE). His...

    Jonathan Swan  /  June 22, 2023  /  CBMW  /  Eikon


  • Introducing Eikon 5.1 (Spring 2023)

    We are pleased to open our fifth year of Eikon today with the release of our Spring 2023 issue. As the Editorial explains, this issue of Eikon is dedicated exclusively to providing a response to the third...

    Jonathan Swan  /  June 22, 2023  /  CBMW  /  Eikon


  • A Return to Counter-Cultural Sexuality | Ancient Paths

    The sexual ethic of the second-century Roman Empire bears some semblance to today’s sexual revolutionary era. Sexual promiscuity (especially among men), which included not only heterosexual and homosexual acts, but also pederasty, was considered a...

    Jonathan Swan  /  June 22, 2023  /  CBMW  /  Eikon


  • Introducing Fall 2022 Eikon

    Today’s release of the Fall 2022 Eikon: A Journal for Biblical Anthropology completes its fourth volume and serves as a written monument recognizing the fifth anniversary of the Nashville Statement (2017). As such, much of this issue is...

    Jonathan Swan  /  November 17, 2022  /  CBMW  /  Eikon


  • Announcing The Bookstore by CBMW

    Since our organization began in 1987 with the drafting of The Danvers Statement on Biblical Complementarianism, the mission of CBMW has been “to set forth the teachings of the Bible about the complementary differences between...

    Jonathan Swan  /  August 24, 2020  /  CBMW  /  News and Announcements


  • On the Importance of Confessional Theological Education: An Interview with Jason K. Allen

    Editor’s Note: The following interview appears in the Spring 2020 issue of Eikon. Dr. Jason K. Allen is President of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, a Southern Baptist seminary in Kansas City, Missouri. He is also...

    Jonathan Swan  /  June 10, 2020  /  CBMW  /  Eikon


  • The Nashville Statement and Human Rights

    Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from the January 2019 edition of the CBMW Newsletter, a monthly ministry update that features exclusive editorial content from CBMW Executive Director Colin Smothers. We are posting part...

    Jonathan Swan  /  February 1, 2019  /  CBMW  /  The Nashville Statement