Editor’s Note: The following article appears in the Spring 2025 issue of Eikon. God’s creation of mankind as male and female in His image grounds human dignity, undergirds the institution of marriage,…
Editor’s Note: The following article appears in the Spring 2024 issue of Eikon. The Greek philosopher Heraclitus (535–475 BC) famously quipped, “There is nothing permanent except change.” From one angle,…
Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2023 issue of Eikon. Editorial The Apostle Paul teaches in Ephesians 3:15 that from God the Father is named “every family…
Some errors are explicit and easy to spot, while others are not stated in so many words and only manifest by way of implication. Christa McKirland’s chapter falls squarely in…
Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2022 issue of Eikon. Five years ago this Fall, a group of evangelical leaders met in a conference room in Nashville…
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.…
Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Spring 2022 issue of Eikon. The theme for this issue of Eikon is human society’s bedrock institution, the family. It doesn’t take…
Less than ten years ago, in 2013, Aimee Byrd wrote an article for Reformation21 called, “What’s the Difference Between Women Preaching and Women Blogging?” On the whole, the article is…
A few years back, I drew attention to C. S. Lewis’s “complementarian” argument on the question of ordaining women to the priesthood in the Anglican church. I would encourage everyone…
Editor’s note: This article has been updated with a statement from FBC Elm Mott. The pronoun is a basic concept of grammar first learned by intuition and later catalogued by…
Today is one of the darkest days in American politics. Weep for our country before it is too late. After revising its standing rules to exclude all gendered language earlier…
Last month, the Biden Administration’s Department of Education teamed up with the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice and the Department of Health and Human Services. What could…
Editor’s note: the following essay appears in the Spring 2021 issue of Eikon. Charles Taylor argues that modernity has stripped the created world of its meaning: “The cosmos is no longer seen…
Editor’s note: The following article is an excerpt from CBMW’s May 2021 newsletter. To receive our monthly newsletter in your inbox, you can sign up here. Rapid-Onset Revolution Moral change…
“The ultimate moral test of any government is the way it treats three groups of its citizens. First, those in the dawn of life — our children. Second, those in…
At some point in the past decade, the battle of the sexes seems to have given way to a war on the sexes. Last month, the Democratic Speaker of the…
With 2020 drawing to a close, my glance back through CBMW’s most-read articles in 2020 was an exercise in reacquainting myself with Einstein’s theory of relativity. So much has happened,…
Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2020 issue of Eikon. In his book Begotten or Made?, Oliver O’Donovan sets about excavating the epistemological foundations that undergird the…
Editor’s Note: This article is an excerpt from CBMW’s November 2020 Newsletter. To receive our monthly ministry updates in your inboxes, you may sign up here. As the institution of…
A moment of Copernican proportions aired on prime-time TV last week in America, but your average viewer probably didn’t bat an eye. In fact, it was designed to be rather…
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…
One of the many challenges confronting complementarians today is trying to avoid sounding too much like a broken record. In the face of a veritable cottage industry of egalitarian publishing,…
The current cover story for Christianity Today is nothing short of alarming. I did a double take when I read this statistic in the article by sociologist Mark Regnerus: “According…
A recent article from Christianity Today should have our attention: “Researcher: Most Evangelicals Support Women in Church Leadership.” As the summary explains, “Despite the ongoing debates over gender roles, surveys show…
I am very excited to announce the release of our Spring 2020 issue of Eikon: A Journal for Biblical Anthropology. At just under 200 pages of brand new content, including…
Editor’s Note: The following essay appears in the Spring 2020 issue of Eikon. Imagine, if you will, a divinely-designed institution perfectly tuned toward maximal human flourishing — dynamic, responsive, devoted,…
Last year in Dallas, amidst an ongoing controversy surrounding Side-B “Gay Christianity” and the Revoice conference, the Presbyterian Church in America’s (PCA) General Assembly voted to commend CBMW’s Nashville Statement…
Editor’s Note: The following article is excerpted from CBMW’s monthly newsletter, which you can receive in your inbox by signing up here. The United Kingdom has often served as a…
Should our daughters be required to enlist for the United States military draft? This question — once reserved for theoretical ethics and water-cooler arguments about the implications of male-female equality…
Editor’s Note: The following editorial is from CBMW’s March newsletter. Readers can subscribe here to receive our monthly ministry updates in your inbox. “There has never been a time when…
Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from the February 2020 edition of the CBMW Newsletter, a monthly ministry update that features exclusive editorial content from CBMW Executive Director Colin…
“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice,…
The evangelical world was given a gift this week when the ecclessiology-focused ministry 9Marks released their latest journal dedicated entirely to the issue of complementarianism. If you consider yourself a…
Fathers, love your family through family fun and worship As a father of five, it is easy for me to get discouraged about my personal failings as a dad. I…
World-renowned historian William Manchester could write in 1993 that “the erasure of the distinctions between the sexes is not only the most striking issue of our time, it may be…
Western legal reasoning just crossed the Rubicon. In a unanimous decision handed down this week, an employment tribunal in England determined that a government employee’s sincerely held belief in Genesis 1:27…
TGC recently published a fascinating interview with Becket Cook, a former Hollywood set designer in the fashion industry who was living an openly gay life. Cook left all that behind…
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…
DALLAS, TX — The Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) voted at its annual General Assembly last week to declare the Nashville Statement as a “biblically faithful declaration.” By this action,…
C.S. Lewis opens his 1948 essay, “Priestesses in the Church?” with an amusing exchange from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice:¹ I should like Balls infinitely better,” said Caroline Bingley, “if…
Show Notes Christopher Yuan, DMin, has taught at Moody Bible institute for more than ten years, and his speaking ministry on faith and sexuality has reached five continents. He…
Show Notes Abigail Dodds (BA, Bethel University) is a wife and mother of five children. She writes and teaches Bible studies for the women at Bethlehem Baptist Church, where…
Beginning on Saturday, nearly one thousand United Methodist delegates gathered in St. Louis to debate the issue of whether the UMC should revise their church’s doctrine and practice regarding same-sex…
Editor’s Note: CBMW receives a lot of questions at our office email, cbmwoffice@cbmw.org. As a staff, we try to answer as many of these as we can. Occasionally these questions…
Next month, the United Methodist Church will meet in St. Louis to vote on what is being billed as the One Church Plan, a comprehensive measure recommended by the Council…
Editor’s Note: This blog post originally consisted only of Colin Smothers’ critique of Andy Draycott’s 2018 ETS presentation. Recently however, Draycott has offered a public statement retracting the argument made…
Alan Jacobs recently wrote a blog post lamenting the “Christian language policing” he has observed around the issue of “Gay Christianity,” which in part includes a discussion on whether it…
Sixteen years ago, Mary Eberstadt wrote an article for The Weekly Standard about the unfolding sex abuse scandal that was roiling Roman Catholicism then. The title of the article, “The Elephant…
Editor’s Note: Colin Smothers interviewed Nancy Pearcey about her book Love Thy Body on CBMW’s podcast, Danvers Audio. You can listen to the interview here or wherever you get your podcasts. Other…
Sometimes a child or teenager flounders through development from boy to man, girl to woman. This struggle has come to be known as “gender dysphoria.” Most of the time –…
Ahead of the 1948 Lambeth Conference of the Anglican Communion, C. S. Lewis responded to an essay by Lady Marjorie Nunburnholme on the question of women’s ordination to the Anglican priesthood.…
While the debate over whether the United States of America was founded as a Christian nation has good arguments on both sides, the fact that many original settlers came to…
Beth Moore recently published an open letter that male leaders in evangelical churches ought to pay attention to—especially those who claim to be in the complementarian camp. We need to…
David French has a must-read article over at National Review about a troubling development coming out of the California General Assembly. In short—and this is not alarmist langue, it is…
In his first letter to Timothy, Paul writes with a concern that surfaces right from the start of the letter and continues to the end: the preservation of sound doctrine.…
You’ve heard the argument before. Every youth pastor in America has probably encountered it in one form or another, perhaps in the teen who quips, “But the Bible doesn’t say…
Tim Challies predicted that 2018 would bring further definition to complementarianism, and it took less than a month for an opportunity for such definition to arise. In late January, John…
On Tuesday, NPR’s nationally syndicated program, “On Point,” dedicated a segment to the Nashville Statement. In the segment, Russell Moore, President of the Ethics and Religious Liberties Commission of the…
On December 9th, Daniel Fuller added his signature to the Nashville Statement. Along with his signature, Dr. Fuller explains why he signed: “I signed the Nashville Statement because it represents…
At the 164th annual meeting of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention (ABSC) last month, messengers from across the state approved a resolution to affirm the Nashville Statement on Biblical Sexuality.…
CBMW is pleased to announce that Dr. Al Wolters is this year’s winner of the Wayne Grudem Award for Complementarian Scholarship. He receives the award for his research on important…
[Image credit: Festoon Lighting Adelaide] A new organization called “Church Clarity” has formed in recent days with the purported mission to pressure churches to be clear on their websites as…
In the days following CBMW’s release of the Nashville Statement on biblical sexuality, we received many emails from evangelicals across the globe wondering if we had plans to translate the…
Renown analytic philosopher and Christian apologist William Lane Craig recently released a podcast on why he signed the Nashville Statement, which is excerpted below: “I feel uncomfortable signing these sorts…
Randy Alcorn, founder and director of Eternal Perspective Ministries, has been serving the church through his writing and teaching ministry for decades now, giving careful attention to a wide variety…
As the Nashville Statement signature list continues to grow—at the time of this post there are over 16,000 signatures—the coalition is broadening to include many Christian leaders and organizations. One…
Writing at The Hill, CBMW President Denny Burk explains why the Nashville Statement matters, and why it matters especially in this day and age: There is an apocryphal saying often attributed to Martin…
Alastair Roberts, author of the forthcoming “Heirs Together: A Theology of the Sexes,” is one of the most thoughtful evangelicals of our time writing in the area of marriage, gender,…
Writing at The Federalist, Owen Strachan, Professor of Christian Theology at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and former CBMW President, answers several critiques of the Nashville Statement: “The Nashville Statement made national news this…
Shortly after CBMW released the Nashville Statement on Tuesday, August 29, Nashville mayor Megan Barry tweeted this in response, which eventually led to #NashvilleStatement trending nationally and even worldwide on…
Albert Mohler devoted an entire episode of his “Briefing” podcast to discussing The Nashville Statement. We are very grateful to have Dr. Mohler as an original signatory and as one…
UPDATE: Responding to the article and interview discussed below, Eugene Peterson seems to have retracted his affirmation of same-sex marriage in a statement to reporter Kate Shellnutt at Christianity Today. His statement…
Sam Allberry joins Colin Smothers on Danvers Audio to talk about his book “Is God Anti-Gay,” reparative therapy, pastoral ministry, and the practical benefits of a robust theology.
In the midst of the deafening, gale-force winds of the spirit of the age, someone has stood up, cleared his throat, and said, “We cannot be silent.” We Cannot Be…
I was grieved to the center of my soul on Tuesday when I saw the now viral video of top-tiered Planned Parenthood abortion doctor, Dr. Deborah Nucatola, nonchalantly estimating the costs of obtaining…
Recently, I had the privilege of traveling to Brazil to teach a weeklong, seminary-level class to Brazilian pastors and seminarians. Apart from the fact that I had to leave my family…
It is no secret that our marriages are under attack. Could the enemy ask for a more strategic target than the divine institution meant to picture Christ’s relationship to the Church (Eph…
If many in the Christian community are going to continue to accept unquestioningly the zeitgeist‘s mantra that gender is nothing but a social construct, then how are we going to…
This past month we were reminded that, truly, there is nothing new under the sun. An online conversation and debate precipitated after John Piper answered a question from one of…
