Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2022 issue of Eikon. When I first started to read the Bible, twenty-five years ago, I had a deep fear of it and of God’s people. I knew the Bible could change me. I was a lesbian feminist activist professor and I was not interested in...

Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2022 issue of Eikon. I can still remember the day when I first saw the Nashville Statement. It was at the end of August in 2017. After reading it for the first time, I thought: this statement pretty much addresses the questions we are currently discussing...

Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2022 issue of Eikon. Confessional statements are essential instruments of accountability for every ministry committed to biblical and theological faithfulness. From the first seven ecumenical councils to more recent doctrinal formulations like the Nashville Statement, such documents provide necessary clarity and accountability for God’s people. Yet,...

Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2022 issue of Eikon. In a tweet from February 23, 2019, the late Rachel Held Evans said:  Bothers me when @CTmagazine & others refer to exclusionary policies against LGBTQ people as ‘Christian orthodoxy.’ You’re entitled to your opinion, but don’t act like something that Jesus never...

Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2022 issue of Eikon. Five years ago this Fall, a group of evangelical leaders met in a conference room in Nashville to give a particular response to a particular moment. The sexual revolution had given birth to the LGBT revolution, and even in its nascency it...

Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2022 issue of Eikon. When the Supreme Court of the United States recognized same-sex marriage as the law of the land on June 26, 2015 in Obergefell v. Hodges, I immediately responded by saying that we have opened a Pandora’s Box that had no floor. How...