(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…
Keynote for EC’s 2023 ConnECtion by Ralph Blair (PDF version available here.) Twenty centuries ago, the Apostle Paul mentored early Christians in the Greek city of Philippi, giving them pragmatically spiritual support that we all still need today. He warned that, as Christians, we’ll be persecuted. Still, as he tells us all: “Don’t be…
(PDF version available here.) EC is looking forward to another Covid-conscious ConnECtion this summer with our guest keynoters, Cindy Stevens-Pino and Jim Lucas. It’ll be safely available on our website, www.ECinc.org in June. In 1977, two years after we founded Evangelicals Concerned, a former beauty queen, pop singer and Florida orange juice spokesperson, Anita Bryant,…
“How the Ancient Greeks viewed Pederasty and Homosexuality” by Tim Brinkhof, Big Think, January 13, 2013; “LGBTQ+ Holocaust Victims Remembered for the First Time by German Parliament” by Christopher Wiggins, The Advocate, January 27, 2023; Christianity’s American Fate reviewed by D. G. Hart, The Wall Street Journal, October 4, 2022. (PDF version available here) Big…