By Lawrence Locklin  “Since the many, being enslaved by their appetites, make it the business of their lives to pursue sensual pleasures, and to avoid bodily pains… what eloquence can persuade, what words can transform men thus brutified?” – Aristotle, The Nichomachean Ethics Manhood, by God’s design, includes active, intentional work and leadership.  We see...

By Chelsea Vaughn My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the Lord; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God (Psalm 84:2). What does it look like to have a soul that faints for the courts of the Lord? What does it look like to have a longing so deep...

by Mark Singleton It was new for both of us. I had grown up in a home where the idea of a complementarian lifestyle was completely foreign. I had never seen it happen. My wife had never met her father. She never had a father figure in her life to exemplify biblical manhood. When we...

Gloria Furman. Treasuring Christ When Your Hands Are Full. Wheaton: Crossway, 2014. 160 pp. $10.99. Every mother I know longs to be a better mother.  And we often want women who are older and wiser than us to help us in our journey (Titus 2).  Gloria Furman is a wise woman and a gift to...

  The Leading Edge is a weekly peek into what we’re reading and thinking through.  Maybe you have read them; maybe you have not.  Here’s a chance to catch up on news and information at the intersection of gender and the public square, with a the spice of worldview thrown in for flavor.  See something...

By Kyle Worley Have you ever looked into a broken mirror? You can see yourself in the glass, but the image is broken. A fractured picture stares back at you and while you can make out your own features, things are not put together as they should be. Sin has broken us. It has fractured...