We’re excited to announce the release of JBMW Fall 2015. You can download the entire journal as a PDF or each individual article. Subscribe here to receive your print copy of JBMW. Also, listen to what our editor Dr. Jason Duesing had to say in the editorial for this edition (see below). The Self-Reliant Conscience of Evangelical Stoicism [PDF]...

Tomorrow morning, I’ll wake up earlier than everyone else to prepare a fresh breakfast.  While it’s true that some mornings I pull out bowls for cold cereal, it’s become the norm around our house for me to make a hot breakfast.  Our kids have no idea that eating fluffy homemade pancakes with cheesy scrambled eggs...

  As a freshman at a large, secular university I was at a crossroads in my life. I had recently become a Christian and was being introduced to new philosophies and ideas. I enjoyed reading my Bible and figuring out how it spoke into my life, and I loved my American Thought and Language class,...

I had an abortion years ago. For the most part, I don’t even let my mind go there for fear of the terrible sadness that will follow. I know that others, like me, must be feeling the same pangs of grief. These images give us a glimpse of the brutality of what we participated in....

Perry Noble’s Advocacy of Women Preachers Perry Noble, pastor of New Spring church in South Carolina, has recently defended the idea that women should preach. You can read his defense here. He writes in a friendly spirit and says that he wants to clarify the situation rather than argue about the matter. Such friendly discussions...

It’s inevitable. I have seen it over and over again. Whenever a preacher starts a sermon on the subject of marriage, I can see teenagers mentally checking out all over the place. The unsaid thought is clear—“This doesn’t apply to me right now! I’ll worry about it later.” The problem is, though, that if you’re a...