Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2023 issue of Eikon. Jesus Christ uses intimate language to communicate with his Father. In his grace, he shares that intimacy with us, and invites us to call him our Father. When Christ taught his apostles the Lord’s Prayer, he taught all Christians how to pray...

Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2023 issue of Eikon. The one true and living God is named Father in many texts of both the Old and New Testaments. Isaiah cries out to God on behalf of Israel, saying, “O LORD, you are our Father” (Isa. 64:8).  Jesus taught his followers to...

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 Doctrinal and Practical Divinity. Near the end of this work — which comprised a summary of the doctrine he had...

Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2023 issue of Eikon. In his final instructions of his first epistle to the Corinthians, the Apostle Paul issues a series of five exhortations: “Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love” (1...

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 be pursued and attained, we must not fall prey to a false antithesis, which wrongly posits an either/or in place...

  Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2023 issue of Eikon. Nancy Pearcey, The Toxic War on Masculinity: How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes. Ada, MI: Baker, 2023. Nancy Pearcey’s new book defends true masculinity from its most recent critics. The toxicity, as she sees it, is not masculinity itself, but rather the...