Ralph Blair’s 2022 EC ConnECtion Keynote (PDF version available here.) Caesarea Philippi, at the foot of Mount Hermon, was more than an eight-hours walk from Galilee. Its stone cliffs were pockmarked with pagan shrines in honor of Zeus, Nemesis, Pan and The Dancing Goats in risqué fertility rites of bestiality, along with “The Gates of Hades”,…
(PDF version available here.) EC’s 2022 ConnECtion keynotes will be presented as texts in June at our website: https://ecinc.org/, due to concerns about Covid-19 in overnight cramped quarters. Our keynoters are Claire Murashima, Calvin University Student Body President; David Holkeboer, Calvin College grad and an EC Director, and Ralph Blair, EC’s founder. How many Americans…
“The Decline and Renewal of the American Church: Part 2 – The Decline of Evangelicalism” by Tim Keller, Life in the Gospel, Winter 2022. by Dr. Ralph Blair (PDF version available here.) In this second of Keller’s four essays on the decline of church life in America, and his musings on its renewal, the founding…
(PDF version available here.) EC’s 2022 summer ConnECtion guest keynoters will be Claire Murashima, Calvin University Student Body President, and David Holkeboer, Calvin College grad (Class of ‘78) and longtime NYC/ECer. EC founder, Ralph Blair, will also keynote. In 2022, as in 2020 and 2021, due to Covid, we won’t be meeting in person. In June,…
“The Decline and Renewal of the American Church: Part 1 – The Decline of the Mainline” by Tim Keller, Life in the Gospel, Fall 2021. (PDF version available here.) This first of four articles by Keller is to be followed by, “The Decline of Faith”, “The Path to Renewal”, and “The Power for Renewal”, concluding…
Three Presentations We’re Never Alone at Thanksgiving!All Thanksgiving, already and thankfully is, a Togethering. (Read Presentation here.) Pilgrims Enlighten the Dawn Lands400th Anniversary of the Pilgrims’ Thanksgiving with the Wampanoags (Read Presentation here.) Our 21st Year in the 21st Century: Maturity?Making it to Maturity Means Much More than Amassing More Years. (Read Presentation here.) by…
Our 21st Year in the 21st Century: Maturity? Making it to Maturity Means Much More than Amassing More Years. by Ralph Blair(PDF version available here) “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?” That’s a very ancient riddle. It’s a philosophical puzzle on the world’s beginnings and a question about all sorts of other sequences…
Pilgrims Enlighten the Dawn Lands 400th Anniversary of the Pilgrims’ Thanksgiving with the Wampanoags by Ralph Blair(PDF version available here) After surviving the dreadful storms of their Atlantic crossing, The Mayflower’s Pilgrims were swept to a safe harbor far to the north of their expected landfall in Virginia. It was just in time to shelter…
We’re Never Alone at Thanksgiving!All Thanksgiving, already and thankfully is, a Togethering. by Ralph Blair (PDF version available here) Each year, in late October or early November, it’s usually singles, who’re asked a friendly question many find awkward to answer. Yet, in 2020, given lockdowns and social distancing restrictions, it wasn’t so awkward to…
“At the PCA General Assembly, the Little Guys Stood Up” by Carl R. Trueman, First Things, July 8, 2021. By Dr. Ralph Blair (PDF version available here.) Trueman says: “The little guys stood up.” He’s referring to men who meet their own needs for sexual/romantic intimacy with a wife of mutual choice but trample on…