Editor’s note: This essay was originally published by Barnabas Magazine: https://www.sgfcanada.com/barnabas/home#CURRENT_ISSUE. Republished with permission.   June 24, 2022, was a momentous day for which we should give thanks to God—wherever we live. The biblical conviction that every human life has dignity (because all are created in the image of God) lies at the foundation of...

Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2022 issue of Eikon. Words not only bear distinct meanings, but the way they are employed reflects back on the cultures that coin them. So, forexample, one evidence of the hyper-sexualized culture in which we live is the way the term “sexy” — which used to have...

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. 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. 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...

Today’s release of the Fall 2022 Eikon: A Journal for Biblical Anthropology completes its fourth volume and serves as a written monument recognizing the fifth anniversary of the Nashville Statement (2017). As such, much of this issue is dedicated to reflection on the history, influence, and continued importance of the Nashville Statement. In addition to essays by CBMW...