Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2022 issue of Eikon. In a tweet from February 23, 2019, the late Rachel Held Evans said:  Bothers me when @CTmagazine & others refer to exclusionary policies against LGBTQ people as ‘Christian orthodoxy.’ You’re entitled to your opinion, but don’t act like something that Jesus never...

Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2022 issue of Eikon. Five years ago this Fall, a group of evangelical leaders met in a conference room in Nashville to give a particular response to a particular moment. The sexual revolution had given birth to the LGBT revolution, and even in its nascency it...

Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2022 issue of Eikon. When the Supreme Court of the United States recognized same-sex marriage as the law of the land on June 26, 2015 in Obergefell v. Hodges, I immediately responded by saying that we have opened a Pandora’s Box that had no floor. How...

Today’s release of the Fall 2022 Eikon: A Journal for Biblical Anthropology completes its fourth volume and serves as a written monument recognizing the fifth anniversary of the Nashville Statement (2017). As such, much of this issue is dedicated to reflection on the history, influence, and continued importance of the Nashville Statement. In addition to essays by CBMW...

Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2022 issue of Eikon. What the organizers of the Nashville Statement saw as merely repeating what the church had always implicitly, if not at times explicitly, taught about human sexuality and embodiment, it was not received that way — to put it mildly. My experience helping...

Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2022 issue of Eikon. The Nashville Statement on Biblical Sexuality was released on August 29, 2017 with initial signatures from over 150 leaders spanning the evangelical world, including the late J.I. Packer and R.C. Sproul. Other notable signatories include John Piper, D.A. Carson, John MacArthur, Albert...