Jonathan Leeman has a really helpful article dealing with the proper use of pastoral and husbandly authority. This is really insightful stuff, and I commend it to you. There’s a Satanic version of authority and a godly version of authority. There’s authority as intended in creation and exercised in redemption, and authority as exercised in...

Paul C. Vitz, ed. The Complementarity of Women and Men: Philosophy, Theology, Psychology & Art. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2021. In his encyclical Familiaris Consortio, Pope John Paul II stated that there was a “natural complementarity that exists between man and woman.” That idea was further developed in his sermons which...

Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Spring 2022 issue of Eikon. A family is a little church and a little nation. —William Gouge[1] There are few better examples of the beauty and glory of Christian living and of Reformed Christianity in action than the lives of the Puritans at home. Their views on...

Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Spring 2022 issue of Eikon. [Worldliness] makes sin look normal and righteousness seem strange. —David Wells[1] World is the bad part of culture. —John Frame[2] Our culture is rapidly making sin look normal and righteousness seem strange. The bad part of our culture seems to be getting...

Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Spring 2022 issue of Eikon. Bradford Wilcox (PhD) is an American sociologist. He serves as Director of the National Marriage Project and Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies, and a Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute....

Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Spring 2022 issue of Eikon. Sexual ethics and the sanctity of human life are two inseparable moral issues. Unbiblical views of sexual ethics go hand in hand with devaluing human life, particularly women and children. If one treats sex cheaply, then one will treat other people cheaply,[1]...