Owen Strachan

OWEN STRACHAN is Associate Professor of Christian Theology at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is also the Director for the Center on Public Theology at MBTS. He holds a PhD from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, an MDiv from Southern Seminary, and an AB from Bowdoin College. Strachan has published fourteen books and writes regularly for The Gospel Coalition, the Christian Post, and Thoughtlife, his Patheos blog. He is married and is the father of three children. Strachan hosts the City of God podcast,.

Three Ways God’s Justice Comforts Us

by Owen Strachan | Jul 11, 2020 | Finding Hope in Divine Justice

Can you trust a God who executes judgment? A skeptical culture poses this question to Christians today. I think, however, we can ask a better one in return: Can you trust a God who doesn’t execute judgment? Scripture shows our sin-cursed world not only faces divine...

Ten Ways to Exercise Christ-like Headship

by Owen Strachan | Jul 31, 2018 | Biblical Gender and Sexuality: An Expose On Manhood and Womanhood

Few words are more invested with meaning than the term “headship”. It’s a Christological and theological term that is grounded in Ephesians 5:23, which reads, “For the husband is the head [Greek, kephale] of the wife even as Christ is the head of the...