Four years ago, the transgender revolution was advancing with breathtaking speed. In the summer of 2021, New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard was allowed to compete in women’s weightlifting at the Tokyo Olympic Games, despite being a biological male. In January…
Editor’s Note: The following article appears in the Spring 2025 issue of Eikon. How one interprets a text will dictate what one believes, including about sexual ethics. Therefore, due to the importance of correctly interpreting the Bible’s sexual ethic, I will critique…
Editor’s Note: The following book review appears in the Fall 2024 issue of Eikon. Christopher B. Hays and Richard B. Hays, The Widening of God’s Mercy: Sexuality Within the Biblical Story (Yale University Press, 2024). $28. 288pp. Introduction Sometimes when people…
I have been writing and speaking about gender and sexuality for over decade and a half. Whenever I talk about transgenderism, one of the first practical questions I hear concerns the use of pronouns. Whenever I talk about homosexuality, one…
Earlier today, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its much-anticipated decision in 303 Creative v. Elenis, a free speech case with implications for religious liberty. In a 6-3 landmark decision, the Court held that the government may not compel Americans…
On Monday, twelve Anglican archbishops published a remarkable letter officially denouncing the Church of England and the leadership of Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The context of this growing rift in one of the world’s largest Christian denominations is…
When organizers announced the program for the first Revoice conference in 2018, the controversy surrounding the meeting was sharp and protracted. It was a conference appealing to so-called Side-B “gay Christians,” and it was founded in part as a repudiation…
The appalling effort to sexualize kids by progressive LGBT activists accelerated this past week when the world learned of a “Drag Your Kids to Pride” event being held at Mr. Misster, a gay nightclub in Dallas. The event was billed…
I write this post to explain briefly why Christians are resisting the totalitarian speech codes of transgender propagandists. It’s not because we hate transgender people. On the contrary, we love them, and love always rejoices in the truth (1 Cor.…
The Lord Jesus left his disciples with a Great Commission in Matthew 28:19–20 to go out into the world, make disciples, baptize, and to do so “teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.” Becoming a disciple of…
In 2019, I wrote an essay for Eikon about “Mere Complementarianism.” I wrote the essay in part to confront an idea that seemed to be gaining traction within evangelical discussions about gender. A growing chorus of voices had been making…
