“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.)…
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.)…
Christian Faithing and Self-Esteem by Ralph Blair 1985 (PDF version available here.) Ralph Blair is a psychotherapist in private practice in New York City. He founded Evangelicals Concerned in 1976. This booklet is an expanded version of Ralph Blair’s keynote address at the summer connECtions85 held in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and California. “We are what we…
HOPE’S GAYS AND GAYS’ HOPES by Ralph Blair 1983 (PDF version available here.) This morning, at the end of my flight from New York City to Grand Rapids, the flight attendant said, in her best commercial airlinese: “We hope you have an enjoyable stay in Grand Rapids, or wherever your final destination may be.” Without…