Self-Righteous Enslavement Dr. Ralph Blair Evangelicals Concerned 73rd Connection, May 30, 2015 In 1946, a 20-year-old Flannery O’Connor came north to take part in the prestigious Iowa Writers Workshop. But, privately, she was writing prayers: “Dear Lord, please make my mind vigilant about [loving others]. I say many, many, too many uncharitable things about people…
(PDF version available here.) San Francisco’s most prominent evangelical church no longer requires same-sex attracted members to remain celibate. No longer a congregation of the Presbyterian Church in America, the thousand-member City Church is now affiliated with the Reformed Church in America. City Church elders call for reflection: “Imagine feeling this from your family or…
“A Place for Conscience”, Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, April 20, 2015; “A Buckley Comes Out”, Sean Buckley, The Daily Beast, April 26, 2015; “Reparative Therapy: Is It Harmful?” by Nick Pitts, Denison Forum, April 16, 2015; “How Christians Turned Against Gay Conversion Therapy” by Jonathan Merritt, The Atlantic, April 15, 2015; “Sabrina’s Fable”, Mindy…
Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society Book Review by Guenther “Gene” Haas, December 2014 “Tragedy, Tradition, and Opportunity in the Homosexuality Debate” by Ronald J. Sider, CT Weekly, November 18, 2014. (PDF version available here.) by Dr. Ralph Blair Haas reviews Gracious Spaciousness: Responding to Gay Christians in the Church by Wendy VanderWal-Gritter. She led…
(PDF version available here.) 2015 marks the centenaries of two good friends of EC: Bob Rayburn and Charlie Shedd. Bob was the first evangelical leader to encourage us in starting Evangelicals Concerned in 1975. Charlie keynoted EC connECtions in 1997 (East) and 1998 (West). Bob was founding president of Covenant College and Seminary and directed…
Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society Book Review by Andrew M. Bowden, September 2014 “Marriage: Can We Have Justice Without It?” by Robert P. George, Plough Quarterly, Autumn 2014 “Judicial Activism, Judicial Abdication”, National Review, November 3, 2014 “Tim Cook: Is Being Gay a Gift of God?” by Jim Denison, Denison Forum, October 31, 2014…
(PDF version available here.) 2015 marks the 40th anniversary of Evangelicals Concerned. Ralph Blair founded EC in 1975 and published notice in The Advocate, the national gay paper. In talking with his friend, Bob Rayburn, founding president of Covenant College and Seminary, Rayburn suggested that EC be formally launched during the next convention of the…
Christ & His Preparation for Cosmic Life Ralph Blair When Paul wrote to Colossians, he began with a thankful prayer. He then inserted an early Christian hymn in celebration of Christ’s supremacy over all. Scholars say its insertion here “can be taken as a deft, preliminary counter-blow against a heretical demotion of Christ” (Robert Gundry),…
Christ & His Propitiation for Cosmic Liberty Ralph Blair The Christ hymn that Paul passed on to Colossians affirms that, in Christ, everything in the heavens and on earth was brought into being. Then, there’s this striking parallel: in Christ, everything on earth and in the heavens was brought into reconciliation with God. From heaven…
CHRIST & the Cosmos CHRIST & the Cosmos is the text of the teachings Dr. Ralph Blair presented at the 2014 Evangelicals Concerned Fall Festival in Ocean Grove, NJ, October 3-5, 2014. On the first evening, he presented biographical background on five Christians honored: The 300th Anniversaries of Matthew Henry, James Hervey, William Romaine and…