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…
Beth Allison Barr. Becoming the Pastor’s Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman’s Path to Ministry. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2025. “Oh, so you belong to the youth pastor?” Beth Allison Barr, James Vardaman Endowed Professor of History…
Nijay K. Gupta. Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2023. Tell Her Story by Nijay Gupta is a recent book defending egalitarianism on the basis that the Bible…
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 Its Human Limitations, Michele Schumacher provides readers with theological and philosophical…
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.”…
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 concerns.[1] We are convinced a lack thereof is plaguing the discourse on…
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 metroplex, I secured an Uber driver to take me back to…
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…
As a father of five daughters, I think a lot about what it means to be a good woman. This topic comes up somewhat often in our reading or choosing which films to watch, and discussions that emerge from these…
One of the most harmful and perverse aspects of contemporary American culture is the sexualization of our children, especially our young girls. While not new, this trend seems to be snowballing through various age-targeted marketing campaigns which advertise suggestive clothing,…
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…
