As American culture continues to degrade, Christians increasingly find themselves needing to defend biblical ways of thinking. Two recent books aggressively defend the Christian view of man and woman by debunking important and influential misunderstandings present in the broader culture.…
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. .…
Robert Louis Wilken. Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom. New Haven and London, UK: Yale University Press, 2019. A widely-held paradigm in Western intellectual history is that religious freedom originated with enlightened intellectuals during the…
Abigail Dodds. (A)Typical Woman: Free, Whole, and Called in Christ. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2019 Introduction (A)Typical Woman, by Abigail Dodds, is written to Christian women who may be struggling with what it means to be a woman in today’s world and/or…
Mary Eberstadt. Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics. West Conshohocken, PA: Templeton Press, 2019. One of the lessons young writers are taught is that one of the keys to good writing is to repeatedly emphasize your thesis.…
Rachel Green Miller’s Beyond Authority and Submission: Women and Men in Marriage, Church, and Society (P&R Publishing, 2019) represents a growing new voice in what might be called post-complementarian literature. In it, Miller affirms the biblical teaching of male-only ordination…
Rachel Green Miller’s Beyond Authority and Submission: Women and Men in Marriage, Church, and Society (P&R Publishing, 2019) represents a growing new voice in what might be called post-complementarian literature. In it, Miller affirms the biblical teaching of male-only ordination…
Confusion, distortion, and misunderstanding abound in our society when it comes to the topic of sexuality. Same-sex and transgender ideologies are especially widespread today, and Christians, intent on contending for the faith that was once for all delivered to the…
Russell Moore’s book The Storm-Tossed Family: How the Cross Reshapes the Home does not make for a straightforward book review. That’s in part because of the book’s structure and content. Each chapter could work as a standalone article. And when he…
Over the course of history, layers of questionable interpretations have developed over certain biblical characters, preventing us from seeing clearly what lies beneath. As we have, over many centuries, become habituated to seeing certain characters in a particular way, we…
Editor’s Note: Colin Smothers interviewed Nancy Pearcey about her book Love Thy Body on CBMW’s podcast, Danvers Audio. You can listen to the interview here or wherever you get your podcasts. Other than being among the watershed moral issues of our day,…
Review of Ryan T. Anderson’s When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment Ryan T. Anderson is no stranger to controversy. A scholar at The Heritage Foundation, he came to public notoriety when he and allies Robert George and…
