Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2020 issue of Eikon. A father shames a ten-year-old boy for helping his grandma: “Get out of the kitchen; that’s a woman’s work!” A woman sits dejectedly during a Sunday sermon as her pastor preaches through Ephesians 4:11–13 and says, “Only pastors and elders were given...

Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2020 issue of Eikon. The Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) has been facing a great deal of internal controversy over the last couple of years because of the Revoice Conference, which was first hosted in 2018 by a PCA church in St. Louis. The following summer,...

Editor’s Note: The following book review appears in the Fall 2020 issue of Eikon. Carl R. Trueman. The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2020. “Born this way.” “Love is love.” “Equality is not a sin.” The LGBTQ+ vanguard of the...

Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2020 issue of Eikon. In his book Begotten or Made?, Oliver O’Donovan sets about excavating the epistemological foundations that undergird the modern conscience. Originally delivered as part of the London Lectures in Contemporary Christianity in 1983, O’Donovan’s book is a response to a government-sponsored inquiry into...

Editor’s note: The following letter appears in the Fall 2020 issue of Eikon. From Eikon’s first issue, the editorial vision has been to direct our focus toward fostering a uniquely Protestant and evangelical formulation of natural law. The recently named president of Bethlehem College and Seminary, Joe Rigney, wrote an essay in the first issue...

Editor’s Note: The following article is excerpted from the October 29, 2020 episode of The Briefing, a daily worldview podcast hosted by Dr. Albert Mohler. Republished with permission. Even as almost all the mainstream media and most of the cultural conversation is attuned to the 2020 presidential election — and frankly, little else — today...