by Dr. Ralph Blair BEWARE of BOASTING and BLAMING! is Dr. Ralph Blair’s Keynote at the 79th EC Summer ConnECtion, May 31 – June 2, 2019 at The Kirkridge Retreat Center atop the Appalachian Trail in Pennsylvania (PDF version available here.) Three weeks ago, 150 years ago, a single word was telegraphed all across America. …
“As we celebrate LGBT Pride Month and recognize the outstanding contributions LGBT people have made to our great Nation, let us also stand in solidarity with the many LGBT people who live in dozens of countries worldwide that punish, imprison, or, even execute individuals on the basis of their sexual orientation.” President Trump tweeted this…
“Porn is Slowly Killing Evangelicalism” by Grayson Gilbert, Evangelical Patheos: June 12, 2018. “Of Rats, Voles and Online Porn” by Declan Gernon, Areo, February 12, 2019. “Does Empathy Have A Dark Side?” by Jonathan Lambert, NPR, April 12, 2019. Full-page ads in the Christian Right’s World magazine carry stats on “pornography and the church”, alleging…
“That Face: The urge to smash a teenager’s face represents a new iconoclasm against masculinity” by Bruce Bawer, City Journal, January 23, 2019. “What’s Really Toxic is ‘Toxic Masculinity’ ” by Kay S. Hymowitz, City Journal, January 22, 2019. “The New Bigotry” by Noah Rothman, The New York Post, February 3, 2019. Bawer, a champion…
The Evangelicals Concerned Presidents Day Weekend Bible Study was held, once again, up in the Appalachian Mountains of eastern Pennsylvania. It was our 32nd annual winter Bible study weekend and we focused on the books of Jonah and Nahum and their respective prophetic callings regarding pagan Nineveh on the Tigris. The 2019 EC ConnECtion will…
(PDF version available here) The newest Public Religion Research Institute survey finds that 53 percent of white evangelicals, ages 18 to 29, support same-sex marriage. That’s just 8 percent below the 61 percent of Americans across ethnic and racial groups that support same-sex marriage. Even among white evangelicals, 65 or older, 25 percent support same-sex…
Talking Across the Divide by Justin Lee, (Penguin, 2018), 259 pp. by Dr. Ralph Blair (PDF version available here) Self-righteousness is the most desperate of motivations as it’s internally sensed to be the least defensible. There’s no limit to the ruthlessly irrational lengths to which many resort to rationalize their postured, sanctimonious rhetoric, resistance, rebellion…
Liberty — therefore Gratitude, Humility & Patience The 16th Annual Columbus Day Weekend of Evangelicals Concerned Ocean Grove, New Jersey, October 5-7, 2018 Three Centennials on Christian Liberty, 1918 – 2018 Gardner C. Taylor, Billy Graham & Aleksandre Solzhenitsyn Dr. Ralph Blair’s Centennials Lecture and his Three Sermons for the Occasion (PDF version available here.)…
Liberty — therefore Gratitude, Humility & Patience The 16th Annual Columbus Day Weekend of Evangelicals Concerned Ocean Grove, New Jersey, October 5-7, 2018 Three Centennials on Christian Liberty, 1918 – 2018 Gardner C. Taylor, Billy Graham & Aleksandre Solzhenitsyn Dr. Ralph Blair’s Centennials Lecture and his Three Sermons for the Occasion (PDF version available here.)…
Liberty — therefore Gratitude, Humility & Patience The 16th Annual Columbus Day Weekend of Evangelicals Concerned Ocean Grove, New Jersey, October 5-7, 2018 Three Centennials on Christian Liberty, 1918 – 2018 Gardner C. Taylor, Billy Graham & Aleksandre Solzhenitsyn Dr. Ralph Blair’s Centennials Lecture and his Three Sermons for the Occasion (PDF version available here.)…