A Sermon Preached by Dr. Ralph Blair at City Church, August 26, 2001 Last Sunday’s Style section of The Times featured a report on lavishly crass crosses as statements of fashion if not statements of faith. We’re told that trendsetters disavow Christianity but wear the cross as “a badge of status,” “the latest in hip,”…
A Sermon Preached by Dr. Ralph Blair at City Church, New York, on June 24, 2001 It’s June – the month of brides. And the oldest of all brides is here today in church. She is church. She’s us. As scripture says: We are the Bride of Christ. From the creeds that lie behind the…
Ralph Blair’s opening remarks at Philadelphia’s Pridefest, 1998. Emmylou Harris and Robert Duvall sing a duet on the CD of “The Apostle.” It’s a mid-nineteenth century hymn written by an English woman. Here’s some of what she wrote: “I love to tell the story of Jesus and His love … because I know ‘tis true…
Based on material presented by Dr. Blair at the two 1997 summer conferences of Evangelicals Concerned held in Pennsylvania and California. “An enthusiastic religion is the perfection of common sense. And to be beside oneself for Christ’s sake is to be beside Christ, which is our chief end for time and eternity.” – Henry Drummond…
Based on an address Dr. Blair gave at the eastern and western connECtions96 in the summer of 1996. (PDF version available here.) by Dr. Ralph Blair INTRODUCTION Tennessee Williams used to say that “at New York cocktail parties, I drink martinis almost as fast as I can snatch them from the tray.” He said it…
An expanded version of Dr. Blair’s address on anger at connECtion95, the summer conferences of Evangelicals Concerned at Kirkridge and Mills College, June and July, 1995. In a promo for New York City’s Lesbian and Gay Community Center, cartoonist Howard Cruse depicts a gay guy asking his lesbian friend: “Where’s the meeting for people who’re…
“Ordination of Women and of Gays: Are They on a Par?” by Cornelius Plantinga, Jr., Calvin Seminary Forum, Spring 1994. Flannery O’Connor knew that “it seems to be a fact that you have to suffer as much from the Church as for it.” Now even the Pope is taking a few tentative steps to admit…
This booklet is an expanded version of Dr. Blair’s keynote address at connECtion 1992, the summer conferences of Evangelicals Concerned, at Kirkridge in the eastern Pennsylvania mountains and at Chapman University in Orange, California. (PDF version available here.) (PDF of book format available here.) by Dr. Ralph Blair “Though vine nor fig-tree neither Their wonted…
Ralph Blair is a psychotherapist in private practice in New York City. He founded Evangelicals Concerned in 197 6. This booklet is based on Dr. Blair’s keynote at connECtion1990, the summer conferences of Evangelicals Concerned, at Kirkridge and at San Francisco State University. (PDF version available here.) By Dr. Ralph Blair An unknown gloss adds…
NEVERTHELESS, JOY! is Ralph Blair’s keynote address at the connECtion89 summer conferences of Evangelicals Concerned held in the states of Pennsylvania, Washington, and Wisconsin. Dr. Blair has been practicing psychotherapy for twenty years. He founded Evangelicals Concerned in 1976. (PDF version available here.) by Dr. Ralph Blair During the Great Depression, one of the hit…