(PDF version available here) The 100th person to keynote an EC summer retreat will be Shari Johnson. She’s the author of Above All Things: The Journey of an Evangelical Christian Mother & Her Gay Daughter. Johnson is president of P-FLAG in Odessa, Texas. The 101st person to be an EC keynoter will be Jared Porter…
(PDF version available here) On November 6, voters in Maine, Maryland and Washington legalized same-sex marriage and Minnesotans voted down a constitutional amendment that would have banned same-sex marriage. Six states (New Hampshire, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, Iowa and New York as well as D.C.) had already legalized same-sex marriage. Thirty-two states have voted to restrict…
Torn: Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays-vs.-Christian Debate by Justin Lee (Jericho Books, 2012) 259 pp. (PDF version available here) Since lesbian and gay youth are ridiculed, caricatured, guilt-tripped, kicked out of families, churches and Christian schools, it’s not inexplicable that they’d try to steer clear of their abusers – including the religious ringleaders of…
1912 ~ The Centennials ~ 2012 Lottie Moon – William Booth – Francis Schaeffer – Jacques Ellel This is the opening talk by Dr. Ralph Blair given at the 2012 Preaching Festival. The 2012 weekend focused on a group of centennial, historical Christians whose journeys and testimonies are an encouragement and inspiration to all. Sermons…
The first in a series of three sermons given by Dr. Ralph Blair at the 2012 Preaching Festival held in Ocean Grove, N.J. Jesus: The Original Evidence “Who Invented Christianity?” This provocative question popped up on my computer screen. It was an ad for “an all-star lineup [in] scenic Durham, North Carolina [this weekend]. Four…
The second in a series of three sermons given by Dr. Ralph Blair at the 2012 Preaching Festival held in Ocean Grove, N.J. Jesus: The Ongoing Evidence The original evidence for Jesus is his resurrection. His ongoing evidence is the Church, his Bride, and what she, by God’s Spirit, gives, in love, to the welfare…
The third in a series of three sermons given by Dr. Ralph Blair at the 2012 Preaching Festival held in Ocean Grove, N.J. JESUS: THE EVIDENCE IN OUR LIVES It’s Sunday morning. We’re meeting on this Sunday morning in the 21st-century because of that 1st-century Sunday morning when God raised Jesus from the dead. Since…
(PDF version available here) Longtime “ex-gay” leader John Smid says he’s never seen sexual orientation change through all his 22 years in the “ex-gay” movement. He’s written a book, Ex’d Out, about coming to this public acknowledgement. EC’s founder, psychotherapist Ralph Blair, endorses it: “However well-intended, the ‘ex-gay’ efforts of the past four decades were…
“More Than a Legal Issue”, Christianity Today, July/August, 2012. “The Party Line: No Such Thing as an Ex-gay” by Eric Metaxas, Breakpoint.org, June 6, 2012. (PDF version available here) Over the years my correspondence from CT editors has ranged from bizarre, intrusively personal, even prurient, through gracious and fully supportive. Here, editors who enjoy the…
Dr. Ralph Blair’s 2012 connECtion Keynote Let’s hear God’s word. “God’s wrath is revealed against all godless suppression of God’s truth. For what can be known of God is clear. God has made it clear. The visible has always been evidence of the invisible – God’s Power, God’s Person. No one has an excuse. For,…