Editor’s note: The following book review appears in the Spring 2021 issue of Eikon. Daniel Gilbert. Stumbling on Happiness. New York: Vintage Books, 2005. Introduction How can a person guarantee future happiness? In a postmodern society where pursuing happiness is the highest good, a book promising answers for predicting happiness has powerful appeal. It comes...

Editor’s note: The following book review appears in the Spring 2021 issue of Eikon. David VanDrunen. Politics after Christendom: Political Theology in a Fractured World. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Academic, 2020. Politics After Christendom: Political Theology in a Fractured World by David VanDrunen is a work of political theology that advances a robust understanding of...

Editor’s note: The following book review appears in the Spring 2021 issue of Eikon. Alan Branch. Affirming God’s Image: Addressing the Transgender Question with Science and Scripture. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2019. “I recommend you support your teenaged daughter as she begins transitioning into a boy…and you should start calling him Tom.” Receiving these words from a...

Editors Note: the following essay appears in the Spring 2021 issue of Eikon. When confronting an evil, a faithful Christian line of inquiry frequently involves examining the good that lies beneath the evil. Absolute evil is a nullity, a nothingness. Everything created by God is good, and therefore, evil is always a corruption, a perversion of...

Editors Note: the following essay appears in the Spring 2021 issue of Eikon. The Puritans offer a rich vein of example and encouragement we can mine in our own discipleship. They are easy to admire for their doctrinal vibrancy. They are worthy of emulation in their heartfelt piety. And they arrest our temptation toward easy-believism with...

Editor’s Note: the following essay appears in the Spring 2021 issue of Eikon. Introduction Over the past thirty years, complementarianism has enjoyed something of a consensus position among conservative churches in North America. Over against feminist arguments that men and women should be treated equally in every respect, complementarians have insisted that God intends for men...