Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2022 issue of Eikon. I wrote the first draft of the Danvers Statement (1987). Thirty years later, I gave input on the final draft of the Nashville Statement (2017). The former was foundational for the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood; the latter expresses the Council’s...

Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2022 issue of Eikon. What will you do when a detransitioner comes to your church? With more young Americans identifying as transgender, easy access to cross-sex hormones, and insurance coverage for gender reassignment surgery, the number who have transitioned[1] has exploded. In 2013, the American Psychiatric Association...

Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2022 issue of Eikon. I did not originate the title of this article. The Eikon editors initially asked if I would be willing to write about how and why my thinking had changed about the Nashville Statement. But in service to greater accuracy, it would be...

Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2022 issue of Eikon. It seldom happens that theological statements make the news in a secular country such as the Netherlands. However, in the first week of 2019 this is what happened. The Dutch translation of the Nashville Statement set off a metaphorical bomb — the...

Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2022 issue of Eikon. At Union University, we seek to establish all aspects of life and learning on the Word of God. This is who we are, it is who we have been, it is who we are committed to be in the future. Generations of...

Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2022 issue of Eikon. First Corinthians 15:58 states, “Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.” This verse comes just after a discussion of the victory we have...