CBMW’s latest installment of Eikon (6.2) features essay from Louis Markos, Kyle Claunch and Michael Carlino, and James Wood. This Fall 2024 issue focused on the natural and complementary differences between men and women. As Executive Editor Jonathan E. Swan…
Graham Beynon and Jane Toher. Embracing Complementarianism: Turning Biblical Convictions into Positive Church Culture. The Good Book Company, 2022. Intro If there was ever a time a book needed to be written on building a positive culture of complementarianism in…
Terran Williams. How God Sees Women: The End of Patriarchy. Cape Town, South Africa: The Spiritual Bakery, 2022. Introduction A recent, lengthy entry into the never-ending egalitarian vs. complementarian debate among evangelicals, How God Sees Women is penned by Terran…
Lina AbuJamra. Don’t Tell Anyone You’re Reading This: A Christian Doctor’s Thoughts on Sex, Shame, and Other Troublesome Issues. Forefront Books, 2023. What If It Is About the Nail? I love “It’s Not About the Nail,” a short comedy sketch…
Andrew Walker. Faithful Reason: Natural Law Ethics for God’s Glory and Our Good. Brentwood, TN: B&H Academic, 2024. A Morally Ordered Oughtness to the World There is a moral oughtness to the world. That is, the universe evidences moral…
Why do we not put adulterers to death anymore as prescribed in, for example, Leviticus 20:10–16? And since we do not, why insist, then, on the enduring importance of the prohibitions on adultery, incest, homosexual practice, cross-dressing, bestiality, and other…
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.…
A very strange thing happened a couple of years ago. During Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Senate hearings for her appointment to the Supreme Court, Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee read an excerpt from former Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s majority opinion…
That an Augustinian monk and a nun would be credited with establishing the ideal of the Protestant family is truly one of the most remarkable surprises of all church history.[1] The marriage of the notorious German reformer Martin Luther to…
The first time I knew myself to be a Southern Baptist was in the year 2000 when, while watching the news, I saw the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) had adopted an updated doctrinal statement making clear the biblical convictions that…
Defining male and a female has become difficult for educated people. On March 23, 2022, the United States Senate was holding confirmation hearings for President Joe Biden’s nominee to the Supreme Court, Judge Ketanji Jackson. Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn asked…
The purpose of this brief essay is to identify some of the masculine qualities designed by God that fit a man for the arduous task of shepherding his flock (Acts 20:28; 1 Pet 5:1–2). This paper assumes that readers are…
