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Christopher B. Hays and Richard B. Hays, The Widening of God’s Mercy: Sexuality Within the Biblical Story (Yale University Press, 2024). $28. 288pp. Introduction Sometimes when people change their mind it is occasion for joy and celebration, for there is no virtue in adhering to past opinions for the sake of tradition or fear of...
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We are grateful to release the Spring 2024 issue of Eikon (6.1), which seeks to address a number of current conversations spanning a wide denominational breadth. In this issue, various authors respond to a recent Christianity Today magazine discussing the topic of women in ministry, examine feminism as an ideological and philosophical movement, and lend their voices to assess...
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Editor’s Note: The following article appears in the Spring 2024 issue of Eikon. The Greek philosopher Heraclitus (535–475 BC) famously quipped, “There is nothing permanent except change.” From one angle, we can understand what he meant by this oxymoron. As time-bound creatures, all we experience is change. And to be familiar with human history is...
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Editor’s Note: The following article appears in the Spring 2024 issue of Eikon. George Whitefield (1714–1770) may have preached the good news of the gospel to more people than anyone before him in history, but on October 29, 1747, he had tragic news to report. From a small town in South Carolina, he penned a...
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Editor’s Note: The following book review appears in the Spring 2024 issue of Eikon. Abigail Favale has written a book that does many things at once. Formerly a professor in feminist theory, Favale’s book is some parts memoir, other parts historical survey; some parts polemic against the cultural revolution, other parts invitation into the mystery...
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Editor’s Note: The following book review appears in the Spring 2024 issue of Eikon. Rosaria Butterfield, Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2023. I struggled with an eating disorder in college. I told myself it was just a stage, that I could stop the vicious cycle anytime I wanted. But I was...
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