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 review appears in the Spring 2025 issue of Eikon. Josh Hawley. Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs. Washington D.C.: Regnery, 2023. When a sitting United States Senator writes a book, it deserves consideration. When that book focuses on…
Editor’s Note: The following review appears in the Spring 2025 issue of Eikon. Michele Schumacher. Metaphysics and Gender: The Normative Art of Nature and Its Human Limitations. Steubenville, OH: Emmaus Academic, 2023. In Metaphysics and Gender: The Normative Art of Nature and…
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…
John Piper and Wayne Grudem edited Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood in 1991, and now Aimee Byrd has written Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood some thirty years later.[1] Byrd, an influential author, speaker, blogger, and podcaster,[2] claims to be recovering from so-called “biblical manhood and womanhood.”…
Editor’s Note: The following article appears in the Spring 2025 issue of Eikon. In this essay, we seek to provide a clear and robust dogmatic foundation for a distinctly Christian anthropology, one that coheres with critical covenantal distinctions and pressing Christological…
Editor’s Note: The following article appears in the Spring 2024 issue of Eikon. 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…
Editor’s Note: The following article appears in the Fall 2024 issue of Eikon. 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…
Editor’s Note: Colin Smothers and Matt Damico recently sat down on the CBMW Podcast to discuss “Songs for the Sojourn,” a new worship album released by Matt and Kenwood Music. You can listen to that conversation here, and you can…
I recently wrote something on Facebook to the effect that I would rather my boys (ages seven and five) listen to Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson’s lectures on The Lion King than many sermons and small group lessons I’ve heard addressed…
I doubt whether we are sufficiently attentive to the importance of American boyhood. Two more mass shootings; this time in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio. Thirty-one dead and dozens more injured, more lives cut radically short at the hands…
Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from the April 2019 edition of the CBMW Newsletter, a monthly ministry update that features exclusive editorial content from CBMW Executive Director Colin Smothers. We are posting part of this month’s newsletter editorial…
