At the 164th annual meeting of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention (ABSC) last month, messengers from across the state approved a resolution to affirm the Nashville Statement on Biblical Sexuality. The resolution included excerpts from articles of the Nashville Statement along with a strong endorsement of the statement. “Resolved, that we the messengers to the...

On the most recent episode of “Ask Pastor John,” John Piper responds to the following question: “Did Public Controversy over the Nashville Statement Hurt the Cause?” The short answer is no, but Piper’s explication is really helpful and worth your time to listen to in full. Piper makes the case that the Christian vision of sexuality...

CBMW is pleased to announce that Dr. Al Wolters is this year’s winner of the Wayne Grudem Award for Complementarian Scholarship. He receives the award for his research on important Greek vocabulary in 1 Timothy. Wolters’s research focused on the word authenteo (“to excercise authority”) in 1 Timothy 2:12, where Paul writes, “I do not allow...

The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood held a banquet at the annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society in Providence, Rhode Island, November 14. This is the fourth consecutive year CBMW has held a banquet at the academic conference. This year‘s meeting carried special significance in that it marked the 30-year anniversary of CBMW‘s...

Mark Galli has penned an editorial criticizing the Nashville Statement in the November issue of Christianity Today. He raises a number of concerns and claims that the statement “ended up confusing some issues and has divided advocates of biblical sexuality.” In the end, he sees the statement as a failed project in spite of the...

[Image credit: Festoon Lighting Adelaide] A new organization called “Church Clarity” has formed in recent days with the purported mission to pressure churches to be clear on their websites as to where they stand on LGBT issues. What are we to make of this organization? After being called out on Twitter by Church Clarity to...