Editor’s note: The following review will appear in the Spring 2021 edition of Eikon. Kristin Kobes Du Mez. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation. New York: Liveright, 2020. “When Rachel Held Evans and Jen Hatmaker ran afoul of conservative orthodoxies related to sexuality and gender. . .”...

“The ultimate moral test of any government is the way it treats three groups of its citizens. First, those in the dawn of life — our children. Second, those in the shadows of life — our needy, our sick, our handicapped. Third, those in the twilight of life — our elderly.” — Former Vice President...

At some point in the past decade, the battle of the sexes seems to have given way to a war on the sexes. Last month, the Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi enlisted the US House of Representatives in the fight when she proposed, and the House narrowly passed, its new rules for the...

LOUISVILLE, KY: When the Nashville Statement was published in 2017, its architects’ main purpose was to help form the confessional identity of Christians on the contested issues of gender and sexuality. In the ensuing years, that is exactly what has happened. Since its release, the Nashville Statement has been adopted by dozens of Christian colleges,...

One of the arguments made by transgender activists is the relative normalcy of being trans. Suppose only transgender persons could be granted the ability to live lives unbothered by the outside world. In that case, we’re told, the uniqueness of someone identifying with a gender different than their biological sex would become commonplace. Because gender...

Editor’s note: The following interview appears in the Fall 2020 issue of Eikon. Oliver O’Donovan is Professor Emeritus of Christian Ethics and Practical Theology at the University of Edinburgh. Andrew T. Walker is Associate Professor of Christian Ethics at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and the Executive Editor of Eikon. ATW: The Christian faith today...