Editors Note: the following essay appears in the Spring 2021 issue of Eikon. When confronting an evil, a faithful Christian line of inquiry frequently involves examining the good that lies beneath the evil. Absolute evil is a nullity, a nothingness. Everything created by God is good, and therefore, evil is always a corruption, a perversion of...

Editors Note: the following essay appears in the Spring 2021 issue of Eikon. The Puritans offer a rich vein of example and encouragement we can mine in our own discipleship. They are easy to admire for their doctrinal vibrancy. They are worthy of emulation in their heartfelt piety. And they arrest our temptation toward easy-believism with...

Editor’s Note: the following essay appears in the Spring 2021 issue of Eikon. Introduction Over the past thirty years, complementarianism has enjoyed something of a consensus position among conservative churches in North America. Over against feminist arguments that men and women should be treated equally in every respect, complementarians have insisted that God intends for men...

Editor’s note: the following essay appears in the Spring 2021 issue of Eikon. It is not an unfair generalization to say that most people do not like to think or talk about death and dying. Indeed, doing so seems morbid or even macabre. In the modern context, most people rarely witness death and dying, as less...

Editor’s note: the following essay appears in the Spring 2021 issue of Eikon. Charles Taylor argues that modernity has stripped the created world of its meaning: “The cosmos is no longer seen as an embodiment of meaningful order which can define the good for us.”[1] Historian Jacques Barzun lays part of the blame at the feet of...

The following excerpt from What God Has To Say About Our Bodies (Crossway, June 2021) appears in the Spring 2021 issue of Eikon. It is not a question we might have considered even just 15 years ago, but rest assured it is increasingly being asked by a younger generation today. Here are three foundational truths...