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Dear Friend,
I am very excited to announce the release of the Spring 2022 issue of Eikon: A Journal for Biblical Anthropology. As always, this and past issues can be accessed at no cost at our website, where you can also download free PDFs, read individual essays and reviews, and subscribe to receive a print copy in your mailbox.
The organizing theme behind this issue of Eikon is the family. I wrote my executive editorial, "For the Family," as a kind of clarion call for evangelical Christians to rally in support of the family for the good of the church and society. Why would we need to do so? My interview with sociologist Brad Wilcox reveals the state of our marital unions and just how dire the family's situation is in the West.
The reality is, the family is in trouble — from declining marriage rates, family formation, and births on the front end, to rising divorce rates and familial breakdown on the back end. And progressive forces are only accelerating this trend. What can the church do to help the family flourish again? We can reiterate the goodness, truth, and beauty of God's word and God's way, and we can live accordingly.
To that end, Andrew Walker has a new essay in this issue of Eikon defending parental rights from a biblical and natural law perspective, and Kevin DeYoung writes for Eikon on God's design for the two-parent home. Kaspars Ozolins makes his debut in the Spring 2022 issue with an essay on how attacks on the nuclear family that have come from within American evangelicalism reveal insular attitudes that are not reflective of global Christianity. And Joe Rigney has a fantastic new essay on how the complementarian position makes best sense of the biblical, natural, and cultural data.
And I haven't even highlighted half of the essays, let along book reviews. So tolle lege! Take up and read the latest issue of Eikon, and join us as we rally to God's design for the family.
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Below you will find a hyperlinked Table of Contents for the Spring 2022 issue of Eikon. If you prefer to read a PDF version that mirrors the print layout, you can find that here.
In Christ,
Colin J. Smothers
CBMW Executive Director
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