• Michael R. Carlino is the Operations Director for CBMW, a PhD candidate in Systematic Theology at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and an Adjunct Professor of Christian Theology at Boyce College. He and his wife Kylie live with their two children in Clarksville, IN. He is a member of Kenwood Baptist Church where he serves as a Youth Leader.

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  • 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...

    Michael Carlino  /  June 24, 2025  /  CBMW  /  News and Announcements

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  • Introducing Eikon 6.2 (Fall 2024)

    CBMW’s latest installment of Eikon (6.2) features essay from Louis Markos, Kyle Claunch and Michael Carlino, and James Wood. This Fall 2024 issue focused on the natural and complementary differences between men and women. As...

    Michael Carlino  /  December 11, 2024  /  CBMW  /  Eikon

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  • Gender Essentialism in Anthropological, Covenantal, and Christological Perspective

    Editor’s Note: The following article appears in the Spring 2024 issue of Eikon. In this essay, we seek to provide a clear and robust dogmatic foundation for a distinctly Christian anthropology, one that coheres with critical covenantal...

    Kyle D. Claunch, Michael Carlino  /  November 23, 2024  /  CBMW  /  Eikon

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  • Book Review: “Biblical and Religious Psychology”

    Editor’s Note: The following book review appears in the Spring 2024 issue of Eikon. Bavinck, Herman. Biblical and Religious Psychology. Jenison, MI: Reformed Free Publishing Association, 2024. In his superb introduction to the newly-translated-in-English Biblical...

    Michael Carlino  /  June 18, 2024  /  CBMW  / 

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  • Male Headship or Servant Leadership? Yes.

    Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2023 issue of Eikon. In this essay, I take aim at a false antithesis pertaining to God’s purposes and calling for men. For true masculinity to...

    Michael Carlino  /  November 21, 2023  /  CBMW  /  Eikon

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  • Book Review: “The Lies We are Told, the Truth We Must Hold: Worldviews and Their Consequences”

    Editors note: The following book review appears in the Fall 2022 issue of Eikon. Sharon James. The Lies We are Told, the Truth We Must Hold: Worldviews and Their Consequences. Fearn, Scotland: Christian Focus, 2022....

    Michael Carlino  /  November 17, 2022  /  CBMW  /  Eikon

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  • If Christ Is Not Savior, He Cannot Be Liberator: A Response to Ibram Kendi

    Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2021 issue of Eikon. “Antiracists fundamentally reject savior theology, which goes right in line with racist ideas and racist theology. . . . Jesus was a...

    Michael Carlino  /  November 22, 2021  /  CBMW  /  Eikon

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  • Book Review: Andrew Walker’s “Faithful Reason: Natural Law Ethics for God’s Glory and Our Good”

    Editor’s Note: The following book review appears in the Fall 2024 issue of Eikon. Andrew Walker. Faithful Reason: Natural Law Ethics for God’s Glory and Our Good. B&H Academic, 2024.   A Morally Ordered Oughtness to...

    Michael Carlino  /  January 1, 1970  /  CBMW  / 

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  • Introducing Eikon 6.2 (Fall 2024)

    CBMW’s latest installment of Eikon (6.2) features essay from Louis Markos, Kyle Claunch and Michael Carlino, and James Wood. This Fall 2024 issue focused on the natural and complementary differences between men and women. As...

    Michael Carlino  /  January 1, 1970  /  CBMW  /  Eikon

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  • Feminine Courage

    As a father of five daughters, I think a lot about what it means to be a good woman. This topic comes up somewhat often in our reading or choosing which films to watch, and...

    Michael Carlino  /  January 1, 1970  /  CBMW  / 

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  • Feminine Courage

    As a father of five daughters, I think a lot about what it means to be a good woman. This topic comes up somewhat often in our reading or choosing which films to watch, and...

    Michael Carlino  /  January 1, 1970  /  CBMW  / 

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  • Feminine Courage

    As a father of five daughters, I think a lot about what it means to be a good woman. This topic comes up somewhat often in our reading or choosing which films to watch, and...

    Michael Carlino  /  January 1, 1970  /  CBMW  / 

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  • Does Anyone Need to Recover from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood? A Review Article of Aimee Byrd’s

    Editor’s Note: The following review article appears in the Spring 2020 issue of Eikon: A Journal for Biblical Anthropology. John Piper and Wayne Grudem edited Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood in 1991, and now Aimee Byrd has written Recovering...

    Michael Carlino  /  January 1, 1970  /  CBMW  / 

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  • https://cbmw.org/1970/01/01/53930/

    Feminine Courage James Wood is Assistant Professor of Religion and Theology at Redeemer University in Ancaster, ON.  He is also a teaching elder in the Presbyterian Church in America, a co-host of the Civitas podcast...

    Michael Carlino  /  January 1, 1970  /  CBMW  / 

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  • https://cbmw.org/1970/01/01/53931/

    Michael Carlino  /  January 1, 1970  /  CBMW  / 

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  • C.S. Lewis on the True Nature of Morality and the Sexes

    In Book I of Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis argues that moral/ethical standards are not arbitrary but connected to a universal moral/ethical code. Since that code transcends any given time or place, it must have...

    Michael Carlino  /  January 1, 1970  /  CBMW  / 

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  • Pastor/Elder/Overseer: An Office Fitted for Men

    The purpose of this brief essay is to identify some of the masculine qualities designed by God that fit a man for the arduous task of shepherding his flock (Acts 20:28; 1 Pet 5:1–2). This...

    Michael Carlino  /  January 1, 1970  /  CBMW  /  Eikon

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  • Revisiting Evangelical Feminism: A New Path to Liberalism

    Several years ago, a debate surrounding the inner workings of the Trinity erupted. One theologian whose views were in the crosshairs was Wayne Grudem, recently retired distinguished research professor of theology and biblical studies at...

    Michael Carlino  /  January 1, 1970  /  CBMW  /  Book Reviews, Complementarianism, Eikon, Feminism

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