The following is an excerpt from a piece I just wrote for Boundless on manhood, marriage, and the benefits of maturity: It’s the most inspiring 60 seconds in American culture today. Slow-motion combat, exploding rockets trailed by plumes of white. Men paying the ultimate price for a greater cause. Valor, vigor and victory. So what are we speaking of? A montage from military history? A call to join the armed forces in service to a nation in peril? No. We... Read more
Here’s the opening from an essay I just wrote for The Atlantic online about the “royal baby” born just a few days ago: This week, as the U.K.’s Prince William and Kate Middleton were expecting their child at any moment, the impending birth received a galaxy’s worth of media coverage. That the child would be heir to the throne was a motivating factor in all this attention, to be sure. I was interested not only for this reason but for a less-noticed... Read more
I just had the opportunity to write “A Hipster for King’s College,” a piece for the American Spectator on the recent appointment of Dr. Gregory Alan Thornbury to the presidency of The King’s College in lower Manhattan (it’s located on Wall Street–how’s that for symbolism?). Thornbury, I suggest, is the nation’s first “hipster president.” More significantly, I connect Thornbury to one of his mentors, the titanic evangelical theologian Carl F. H. Henry, and specifically to Henry’s awe-inspiring vision for the evangelical academy.... Read more
I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy, because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now. (Philippians 1:3-5, ESV) With gratitude to God, we at the Council on Biblical Manhood & Womanhood (CBMW) are pleased to announce that our $30,000 June matching campaign has concluded. Our most significant fundraising effort in the last 3-4 years has resulted in an $80,000 windfall. We met... Read more
Prisca LeCroy just wrote a beautiful pro-life essay for The Atlantic entitled “My Mother Regretted Her Abortion” that responds to a recent pro-abortion New York Times piece by Beth Matusoff Merfish. In her NYT essay, Merfish cheers on the efforts of Texas senator Wendy Davis to defeat a pro-life bill. Prisca, like her godly mother, is a remarkable woman: PCA church member, honors graduate of Harvard and the University of Virginia (J. D.), lawyer in Texas, now wife to Colin and mother of two.... Read more
http://youtu.be/Q4foXehDmWs Get ready for your jaw to drop. This video, on a father’s repentant love for his daughter Paisley, who lives with Down Syndrome, is poleaxing (HT: Eric Metaxas). I said this a few months back: the babies we don’t want today are the ones we most need. In a fast-moving, high-achieving age, we don’t want to be slowed down today. In a narcissistic, appearance-obsessed period, we don’t want to be associated with those who look different. In a perfection-driven... Read more
Yes, I think so. I explain why this is so in the media below. Recently, I’ve had opportunity in my role as Executive Director of the Council on Biblical Manhood & Womanhood (CBMW) to do several interviews that have allowed me to speak to my gospel-driven, positive vision for the organization. If you’re wondering how complementarianism is truly liberating, if you want to know how the gospel syncs up with sexuality and gender, and how we’re handling same-sex marriage, the... Read more
If you support the Council on Biblical Manhood & Womanhood, what will you actually be supporting? What are we planning to tackle in days ahead? Here are a few projects we’re excited about. 1. Create major equipping project on Marriage and Homosexuality 2. Produce resource on fathers, mothers, and gender distinctions 3. Host major scholarly conference on current challenges to biblical truth in the church and public square 4. Produce new lay-level introduction to gender roles 5. Start new cutting-edge... Read more
Are you, like me, a serious fan of Carl Ferdinand Howard Henry? Then you will be interested in the “Remembering Carl Henry: Evangelicalism Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow” Conference. It will be held on October 11, 2013 at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Paper proposals are due four days from now: July 1, 2013. My TEDS PhD dissertation focused on two major figures, Harold John Ockenga and Henry, in examining the neo-evangelical attempt to catalyze the Christian intellect. Because I love Henry,... Read more
Official Statement by Owen Strachan Executive Director, Council on Biblical Manhood & Womanhood (CBMW) RE: DOMA and Prop 8 decisions June 26, 2013 *************** Today, the Supreme Court of the United States of America released two rulings on the matter of marriage. The first related to the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), the second to Proposition 8 (Prop 8). The court ruled 5-4 in favor of the unconstitutionality of DOMA, which had protected biblical and traditional marriage. The court essentially... Read more
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