Editor’s Note: The following review appears in the Spring 2025 issue of Eikon. Jonathan Haidt. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness. New York, NY: Penguin Press, 2024. Abigail Shrier. Bad Therapy: Why…
Editor’s Note: The following review appears in the Spring 2025 issue of Eikon. Jon Tyson. The Intentional Father: A Practical Guide to Raise Sons of Courage and Character. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2021. As a pastor to many men and…
Editor’s Note: The following article appears in the Spring 2025 issue of Eikon. Children are a gift from the Lord. Instructing one’s children to follow the Lord is a sacred undertaking, filled with both deep challenges and profound joys. But it is…
Editor’s Note: The following article appears in the Spring 2025 issue of Eikon. There may be no better example of the Reformation in action than in the home life of the Puritans, who masterfully applied God’s Word to every area of life…
Editor’s Note: The following article appears in the Spring 2025 issue of Eikon. Four days after being sworn in as the nation’s fiftieth vice president, J.D. Vance stood on stage at the nation’s premier pro-life event and declared, “I want more babies…
Editor’s Note: The following article appears in the Spring 2025 issue of Eikon. When it comes to raising children, what is the goal? Admitting there are many things we should accomplish, are they all equally important? To get at this question, let’s…
Editor’s Note: The following article appears in the Spring 2025 issue of Eikon. Imagine you’re cleaning up after your mother’s fiftieth birthday party when she pulls you aside, her expression uneasy. She takes your hands and says, “I need to tell you…
Editor’s Note: The following article appears in the Spring 2025 issue of Eikon. I was riding through the Romanian countryside when my host pointed to a large flock of sheep. At the head of the flock was a shepherd who was…
Editor’s Note: The following article appears in the Spring 2025 issue of Eikon. Moral questions surrounding the issue of surrogacy were brought directly to my attention during an Uber ride in Dallas, Texas in 2019.[1] Having attended a conference in the Dallas…
Editor’s note: This essay was originally published by Barnabas Magazine: 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…
What would happen if everyone stopped having children? The Children of Men — P.D. James’s 1992 dystopian novel about a world where women have become infertile — depicts one hopeless and chaotic outcome. The question her story raises is increasingly…
It’s a curious story, this drama unfolding in the lives of two women, each one an unlikely choice to participate in the gate-crashing of the universe. God chose women and wombs to house men. And what men! One, the messenger…
