By Owen Strachan Recently a brand-new conversation began among complementarians. Wendy Alsup wrote a post called “A New Wave of Complementarianism” that met with an enthusiastic online response. Many took note, and key leaders weighed in, including Kevin DeYoung and Thabiti Anyabwile. Any discussion on complementarianism is inherently interesting and important to me, and so...

by Owen Strachan Earlier this week I wrote a piece for Manual on the “smokin’ hot wife” references you sometimes hear in evangelical churches. I realized today that I should have addressed another dimension of this trend: the daughters who hear this language in churches. Let me first say this: many of the men who would use “smokin’...

by Owen Strachan Is it a practical requirement for young evangelical men to refer to their wives in public as “hot,” or, to up the ante, “smoking hot”? Some might think it is. Mary Demuth recently wrote a noteworthy piece at the Her.meneutics blog interacting with this lingo. The piece got a great deal of...

One of the most encouraging things that we get to see as believers is the emergence of faithful younger voices. I guess I should note that I’m not, uh, old, but still, I’ve been encouraged by the recent release of two books written by talented and faithful young men. The first is called Reformational Manhood: Creating...

by Owen Strachan, Executive Director Welcome back to CBMW’s Announcement Week. Today we touch on our final major matter of news. For now, anyway. We may well have more up our sleeve… Monday–New website Tuesday–New channels Wednesday–New book projects Thursday–New staff Friday–New media We have one major project in development under our “new media” category....

by Owen Strachan, Executive Director Welcome back to CBMW’s Announcement Week. Today we cover more new territory: our new staff. Monday–New website Tuesday–New channels Wednesday–New book projects Thursday–New staff Friday–New media It’s really exciting, in working at an organization, to assemble a team. Speaking personally, it’s one of the aspects of this kind of work...