In her new book Recovering from Biblical Manhood & Womanhood, Aimee Byrd takes me and Owen Strachan to task for our understanding of 1 Corinthians 16:13. The verse reads as follows: “Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong” (my translation). In particular, she takes umbrage with our interpretation of that...

Editor’s Note: The following essay appears in the Spring 2020 issue of Eikon. Until 2019, I held the common, historic Protestant view of divorce, namely, that adultery and desertion were the only two legitimate grounds for divorce allowed by Scripture.[1] This is the position set forth, for example, in the Westminster Confession of Faith (1646):...

Editor’s Note: The following book review appears in the Spring 2020 issue of Eikon. George F. Will. The Conservative Sensibility. New York: Hachette Books, 2019. Introduction Combine exceptional research, brilliant storytelling, unassailable logic, and a world-class, Pulitzer Prize winning author, and you have George Will’s recent book The Conservative Sensibility. The purpose of Will’s book,...

Editor’s Note: The following essay appears in the Spring 2020 issue of Eikon. After fifty years of fractious debate over sexuality, The United Methodist Church is about to divide into two or more denominations. This division would have occurred at the scheduled May 2020 quadrennial General Conference, now postponed until 2021 due to COVID-19. If...

Editor’s Note: The following essay appears in the Spring 2020 issue of Eikon. On December 19, 2019 the British writer J. K. Rowling tweeted out the following message: Dress however you please.Call yourself whatever you like.Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you. Live your best life in peace and security. But force women out...

Editor’s Note: The following essay appears in the Spring 2020 issue of Eikon. Imagine, if you will, a divinely-designed institution perfectly tuned toward maximal human flourishing — dynamic, responsive, devoted, fecund, nurturing. Now consider any concerted opposition to such an institution. Would it be motivated by hatred toward God? Or man? At the turn of...