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“I am a Christian, therefore I am a complementarian. I believe the Bible, therefore I am a complementarian.” –John MacArthur Earlier this evening we all received the sad news that Pastor John MacArthur had passed away at the age of 86. While most will rightly remember Dr. MacArthur as a faithful verse-by-verse preacher and prolific […]| CBMW
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 2022, The New York Times celebrated Amy Schneider’s run on the television show Jeopardy, referring […]| CBMW
CBMW’s latest installment of Eikon (7.1) features essay from Jon Whitehead, Alan Branch, and Katy Faust. This Spring 2025 issue focused on the the family and parental rights. As Executive Editor Jonathan E. Swan writes in the Editorial: The topic of parenting and the rights of parents is even more relevant now than we had […]| CBMW
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 the Kids Aren’t Growing Up. New York, NY: Sentinel, 2024. Parenting has never been easy. […]| CBMW
Editor’s Note: The following review appears in the Spring 2025 issue of Eikon. 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 at Baylor University, remembers […]| CBMW
Editor’s Note: The following review appears in the Spring 2025 issue of Eikon. 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 itself is egalitarian. Though […]| CBMW
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 biblical manhood, Christians especially should pay attention. Josh Hawley, senior Senator from Missouri, has written […]| CBMW
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 Its Human Limitations, Michele Schumacher provides readers with theological and philosophical tools for evaluating and […]| CBMW
Editor’s Note: The following review appears in the Spring 2025 issue of Eikon. Trueman, Carl. To Change All Worlds: Critical Theory from Marx to Marcuse. Brentwood, TN: B&H Academic, 2024. My family and I recently collected around eight gallons of sap from the maple tree in our backyard. After boiling it all down, we had only a […]| CBMW
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 a father to four sons, I was eager to read…| CBMW
The Danvers Statement summarizes the need for the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (CBMW) and serves as an overview of our core beliefs. This statement was prepared by several evangelical leaders at a CBMW meeting in Danvers, Massachusetts, in December of 1987. It was first published in final form…| CBMW