Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2021 issue of Eikon. “Does Bluey being blue ruin gender stereotypes?” This was the question a reader asked after I recommended the Australian preschool cartoon “Bluey,” a show about a six-year-old puppy and the make-believe games she enjoys with her younger sister and parents. As I...

Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2021 issue of Eikon. In recent months, a certain church body made headlines after electing and installing Meghan Rohrer as bishop of their Sierra Pacific Synod. “Evangelical Lutheran Church elects first transgender bishop,” declared NBC News’s headline.[1] Not to be outdone in the vaguery department, CNN...

I’m excited to share that the Spring 2021 issue of Eikon: A Journal for Biblical Anthropology is now available. You can download a free PDF or read individual essays at our website, and print subscribers should be receiving their copies soon. For those attending the Southern Baptist Convention next week in Nashville, copies will be...

Editors note: the following book review appears in the Spring 2021 issue of Eikon. Scott Yenor. The Recovery of Family Life: Exposing the Limits of Modern Ideologies. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2020. One of the perennial temptations for social conservatives, it is often said, is the desire to “legislate morality.” This trope was especially...

Editors note: the following book review appears in the Spring 2021 issue of Eikon. William G. Witt. Icons of Christ: A Biblical and Systematic Theology for Women’s Ordination. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2020. The subtitle expresses the book’s main thrust: it makes a case for women’s ordination. “Icons” in the title signals the conviction developed by...

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...