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...

In May 2014, TIME magazine ran a cover story headlined “The Transgender Tipping Point.” It was now no longer possible to ignore the trans movement. Eight years later, it is no longer possible to ignore the irreversible damage being done to countless young people in the name of this false ideology. For years, concerns have...

Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2022 issue of Eikon. When I left the office of CBMW on the last Monday of August 2017, I did not yet know what we were about to unleash. It was the eve of the public release of the Nashville Statement. Three days earlier, we had...

Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2022 issue of Eikon. Introduction Untangling truth from error was first required in the Garden of Eden, where Satan posed to Eve, “Did God actually say?” (Gen 3: 1). The Psalmist noted living during a time when “there is nothing true in what they say. ....

When organizers announced the program for the first Revoice conference in 2018, the controversy surrounding the meeting was sharp and protracted. It was a conference appealing to so-called Side-B “gay Christians,” and it was founded in part as a repudiation of the Nashville Statement. Indeed, founder Nate Collins told Religion News Service in 2018 that...