Editor’s Note: The following book review appears in the Spring 2020 issue of Eikon. Edited by James K. Beilby and Paul Rhodes Eddy. Understanding Transgender Identities: Four Views. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2019. Introduction A Christian’s engagement in the world appears more complex with each generation. In the area of transgenderism, questions are being raised...

Editor’s Note: The following book review appears in the Spring 2020 issue of Eikon. Sharon James. Gender Ideology: What do Christians Need to Know? Ross–shire, Scotland: Christian Focus, 2019. Introduction Sharon James observes, “We live in an age of unprecedented confusion about sexual identity” (14). Literature on gender studies and human sexuality is a slog...

Editor’s Note: The following book review appears in the Spring 2020 issue of Eikon. Douglas Murray. The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race, and Identity. London: Bloomsbury, 2019. The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race, and Identity begins with a quote from G. K. Chesterton: “The special mark of the modern world is not that it is...

Editor’s Note: The following book review appears in the Spring 2020 issue of Eikon. Alice Matthews. Gender Roles and the People of God: Rethinking What We Were Taught about Men and Women in the Church. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2017. In Gender Roles and the People of God, Mathews considers modern evangelicalism’s “third rail” issue—the role...

Last year in Dallas, amidst an ongoing controversy surrounding Side-B “Gay Christianity” and the Revoice conference, the Presbyterian Church in America’s (PCA) General Assembly voted to commend CBMW’s Nashville Statement as a “biblically faithful declaration.” The General Assembly also voted to form a study committee that would “study the topic of human sexuality with particular...

Editor’s Note: The following article is excerpted from CBMW’s monthly newsletter, which you can receive in your inbox by signing up here. The United Kingdom has often served as a bellwether for the United States in terms of progressive social change. For example, in 1967 the UK Parliament passed the Abortion Act, which legalized abortion...