(PDF version available here.) 2021’s EC Fall Festival texts will be posted on EC’s website in October. Titles of Ralph Blair’s 3 lectures: You’re Never Alone at Thanksgiving! Pilgrims Enlighten the Dawn Lands Maturity in the 21st Year of the 21st Century? The Supreme Court declined to hear a case of a Christian florist who…
(PDF version available here.) The Keynotes of EC’s ConnECtion 2021 can be read on our ECinc.org website at https://ecinc.org/connection-2021/ They are “Homosexuality & the Christian Reformed Church” by Gayla R. Postma, and “Loving Others in the Energy of God’s Loving Us” by Ralph Blair. They’re easiest to read in the PDF versions. Hendrik “Henk” Hart,…
Still Time to Care: What We Can Learn from the Church’s Failed Attempt to Cure Homosexuality by Greg Johnson, (Zondervan, 2021). “A Certain Madness Amok: In Canada, trans ‘justice’ has gone haywire” by Bruce Bawer, City Journal, April 1, 2021. By Dr. Ralph Blair (PDF version available here.) After far too many damaging decades of…
connECtion 2021 Keynoteby EC founderRalph Blair (PDF version available here) All real love is the most profound of all connections and it is generated and energized by the One Who is, Himself, Love, The Eternally Triune God. Yet, lovingly created in God’s Image and called to connect with one another by love, we fail…
(PDF version available here.) The 2021 ConnECtion of Evangelicals Concerned, the 41st in the East and the 81st of our ConnECtions across the country, will again be virtual, given the need to observe social distancing. The three keynotes by our two guests and EC’s founder, can be read online, in June, at www.ecinc.org. Stay tuned. …
“Fearfully and Wonderfully Made: Kentucky’s Gay Teens Don’t Need Conversion Torture” by Daniel M. Beasley, The Lexington Herald Leader, February 4, 2021, updated February 6, 2021. “Prohibiting Prayer in Australia” by Carl R. Trueman, First Things, February 8, 2021 by Dr. Ralph Blair (PDF version available here.) Beasley identifies as, “an out gay Black man…
“Same-Sex Relationships and the CRC”, by Gayla R. Postma, The Banner, October 12, 2020. by Dr. Ralph Blair (PDF version available here.) Nearly a half-century ago, Christian Reformed Church scholars (e.g., Woudstra, Hart, Olthuis, Smedes, Wolterstorff, et al) supported gay and lesbian Christians. In January, 1985, midway through his tenure as editor of The Banner, CRC’s monthly, Andrew…
(PDF version available here) Welcome to 2021 and the 500th Anniversary of Luther’s testimony before his papal accusers. Luther concluded by affirming: “I am bound by the Scriptures I have quoted and my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything.” EC’s October 2020 keynote, “The Meaning of…
The 17th Annual Octoberfest of Evangelicals Concerned EC’s 2020 Octoberfest Keynote by EC founderRalph Blair (PDF version available here.) “What’s the matter?” Have you ever been asked this question by anyone? Has anyone ever asked this of you? What does the question mean? What’s meant in the mind of the one who asks? What’s meant…
(PDF version available here) EC’s 2020 Octoberfest will be via the Internet due to the need for physical distancing during the pandemic, just as we met via the Internet for our 2020 ConnECtion in June. In October, we will be remembering the 400th Anniversary of the Puritan Pilgrims’ arrival in the New World. Roy Clements,…