Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Spring 2022 issue of Eikon. The next frontier of the sexual revolution is parental rights. That might initially sound hyperbolic. Governments are not, after all, removing children from their homes in any sort of systematic way. The problem, banal as it may seem, is that the intellectual...

Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Spring 2022 issue of Eikon. Aristotle identified the fundamental political unit differently than would most people today. While we tend to look to the individual as the source of our politics, Aristotle began with the procreative pair, the man and the woman. Without the man and the...

Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Spring 2022 issue of Eikon. I have recently completed my twenty-first year as the teaching pastor at the Master’s Community Church. As I look to the next twenty, I want to be more strategic about cultivating complementarity. I am concerned not just for the health of families...

Editors note: the following book review appears in the Spring 2022 issue of Eikon. Beth Allison Barr. The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2021. I was driving one day and turned on NPR. I was clearly tuning in part way through an interview....

Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Spring 2022 issue of Eikon. “The Nuclear Family was a Mistake.” So reads the provocative title of a relatively recent essay published by David Brooks in The Atlantic.[1] The attention-grabbing headline was perhaps overshadowed by other, more immediately pressing headlines at that time (ironically, Brooks’s essay was...

Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Spring 2022 issue of Eikon. Egalitarianism tends to obscure the deeper differences between manhood and womanhood.[1] This has not served us well in the last fifty years. It has instead confused millions and muted a crucial summons for a distinctly masculine care. Unanswered Question What average man...