“Nicholas Wolterstorff’s Cheap Shots: Why the Christian Philosopher’s Case for Same-Sex Marriage is Shallow” by Wesley Hill, First Things, November 1, 2016; “The Tyranny of Decadence” by Peter Jones, truthXchange, June 5, 2017. by Dr. Ralph Blair (PDF version available here) More than a decade before Wesley Hill graduated from college and two years before…
(PDF version available here) 2017 is another milestone year for Evangelicals Concerned. In early June we held our 75th summer ConnECtion retreat, our Diamond Jubilee (considering all of EC’s summer retreats in the East, Midwest and West, since 1980). Besides another keynote from EC’s founder, we heard a keynote from Sully screenwriter Todd Komarnicki and…
by Dr. Ralph Blair Based on Dr. Blair’s keynote address at connECtions2000, Evangelicals Concerned’s summer conferences at Kirkridge in Pennsylvania and at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma. A couple months ago, in Uganda, under the banner of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God, more than a thousand men, women and…
The Quarterly Journal of The Homosexual Community Counseling Center EDITORIALS Dr. Ralph Blair, Editor 1974 Editorials: Charter Volume, Numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 1975 Editorials: Volume II, Numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 1976 Editorials: Volume III, Numbers 1, 2 “Dr. Blair is scrupulously thorough and shows a remarkable analytic ability in his evaluation of the…
by Dr. Ralph Blair With Sunshine & Rainfall for All: An Evangelical Affirmation of Gay Rights is an expanded version of an address delivered by Dr. Blair at the 34th Annual Meeting of The Evangelical Theological Society in 1982. Dr. Blair is a psychotherapist in private practice in New York City. He is the founder…
by Dr. Ralph Blair This booklet is an expanded version of Dr. Blair’s keynote address at connECtion 1991, the summer conferences of Evangelicals Concerned, at Kirkridge and at the University of Denver. Copyright ©1991. Ralph Blair, 311 E. 72nd St New York, New York 10021 Peggy Lee sings of going to “the greatest show on…
by Ralph Blair Empathways is an expanded version of Dr. Blair’s address at connECtions98 in the summer of 1998. INTRODUCTION “Can I see another’s woe, / And not be in sorrow, too? / Can I see another’s grief, / And not seek for kind relief?” What William Blake here had in mind was empathy as…
by Dr. Ralph Blair This booklet is an expanded version of his address on anger at connECtion95, the summer conferences of Evangelicals Concerned at Kirkridge and Mills College, June and July, 1995. ©1995. Ralph Blair, 311 East 72nd Street, New York, New York 10021 INTRODUCTION In a promo for New York City’s Lesbian and Gay…
CALVIN500/ARMINIUS400 The 7th Annual Evangelicals Concerned Preaching Festival Ocean Grove, New Jersey, October 9-11, 2009 An Introductory Lecture and Three Sermons Dr. Ralph Blair (PDF version available here.) CALVIN500/ARMINIUS400: An Introductory Lecture Calvin500. It’s not the new line from Calvin Klein. And Arminius400 isn’t Armani’s new fragrance. See, some gay men are queer enough to…
by Ralph Blair [The] Overcoming Outrage is Dr. Ralph Blair’s keynote at the 2009 Evangelicals Concerned summer connECtions held at Kirkridge in the eastern Pennsylvania mountains and at the Holiday Inn in Palm Springs, California. [The] Overcoming Outrage © 2009 by Ralph Blair (PDF version available here.) Have you noticed any rampant outrage these days?…