Christopher B. Hays and Richard B. Hays, The Widening of God’s Mercy: Sexuality Within the Biblical Story (Yale University Press, 2024). $28. 288pp. Introduction Sometimes when people change their mind it is occasion for joy and celebration, for there is no virtue in adhering to past opinions for the sake of tradition or fear of...

Editor’s Note: The following book review appears in the Spring 2024 issue of Eikon. Abigail Favale has written a book that does many things at once. Formerly a professor in feminist theory, Favale’s book is some parts memoir, other parts historical survey; some parts polemic against the cultural revolution, other parts invitation into the mystery...

Editor’s Note: The following book review appears in the Spring 2024 issue of Eikon. Rosaria Butterfield, Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2023.  I struggled with an eating disorder in college. I told myself it was just a stage, that I could stop the vicious cycle anytime I wanted. But I was...

Editor’s Note: The following book review appears in the Spring 2024 issue of Eikon. Michael Foster and Dominic Bnonn Tennant, It’s Good to Be a Man: A Handbook for Godly Masculinity, Moscow, Idaho: Canon Press, 2021, 2022. The title of Michael Foster and Dominic Bnonn Tennant’s book, It’s Good to Be a Man, may not...

Editor’s Note: The following book review appears in the Spring 2024 issue of Eikon. Oliver Perry famously wrote to William Henry Harrison, “We have met the enemy, and they are ours.” This line has become a proverb for the sober moments when the difficulties and problems we think are caused by others are actually traced...

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 and Religious Psychology (BRP), John Bolt helps today’s reader see what animates Bavinck’s design in writing this book a century...