“There is neither Jew nor Gentile,neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one, in Christ Jesus.”~ Paul, the Apostle, to Galatians, 3:28 2024 EC Summer Keynote by Dr. Ralph Blair (PDF version available here.) Paul’s crucial synopsis to Galatians sums up his rebuttal of his own former rejection of…
By Jean Elizabeth Klee 2024 2024 EC Summer Keynote (PDF version available here.) Asked to share my thoughts about Christian Discipleship by my friend Steve, I’ve been remembering times the Holy Spirit was clear and true with his love for me. Truth is a big part of my faith. God is here, and he loves…
by Steven Schimmele 2024 EC Summer Keynote (PDF version available here.) Introduction I’m very thankful to Dr. Ralph Blair for asking me to provide a talk for Evangelicals Concerned’s (EC’s) 2024 connECtion. Dr. Blair, or Ralph, is a significant person in my life. I met Ralph several years before I moved to New York in…
(PDF version available here.) Real Clear Religion reports: “The modern Democratic party is nearly evenly divided by religious voters and secular ones. It’s 52% vs 48% right now. But don’t be surprised when it flips the other way in the next five years. I think that’s just inevitable at this point. The GOP is also…
“Why Do All Rabbis Hate Me: How the Orthodox community can cultivate compassion and sensitivity toward LGBTQ Jews” by Chaim Nissel, Tablet,June 28, 2023. “Yeshiva University’s Dean Chaim Nissel has not acted like a queer ally and is in no position to teach LGBTQ sensitivity”, Orthodox Mental Health, July 11, 2023 by Dr. Ralph Blair…
“Temptations!”Our Foolishly Flawed Fantasies & Our Father’s Faithful Facts of Life by Ralph Blair (PDF version available here) Temptations are conceived in self-centered cravings for selfishly driven satisfactions, while ignoring others’ welfare, and with a dire lack of gratitude for the most gracious gift of all, God’s Incarnation of Himself in Jesus, who willingly…
(PDF version available here.) Christianity Today reports on Wheaton College’s racist history: “Though the flagship evangelical institution was founded by abolitionists, over the next century and a half it turned away from concerns about racial equality. Even when the school’s leadership knew what was right, they frequently lacked the courage to ‘take a more vocal…
“Dear Friends of Westminster” by Peter Lillback, September 14, 2023 by Dr. Ralph Blair (PDF version available here) Westminster Seminary’s President, Peter Lillback, notes with relief, that, 2023’s June Pride Month “has officially concluded”, but gripes, “its iconography and creeds remain displayed in many shops and private residences.” He’s been inside their residences? To him,…
“‘I Happen to Believe that Gay Relationships are Not God’s Best’: Rick Warren Backs Split in Church of England”, Premier Christian News, March 22, 2023; “Not an ‘Ordinary Man’: J. Gresham Machen and the Un-Queering of Evangelical Theology” by Austin Steelman, Cambridge Press, March 30. 2023; “Machen and the PCA Today” by R. Carlton Wynne,…
(PDF version available here.) If you missed EC’s 3 Internet presentations of our 2023 ConnECtion, posted on June 25, check them out in video, audio or in PDF text, at www.ECINC.org. 2023 Pride marchers chanted, “We’re here, we’re queer, we’re coming for your children!” Decades before these marchers were born, this was the lie Anita…