(PDF version available here) EC’s 16th Annual Preaching Festival in Ocean Grove, NJ will be on Columbus Day Weekend, October 5-7, 2018. Registration begins at 4 PM on Friday, October 5th at Grove Hall. Dinner is at 6 PM at The Starving Artist. The weekend concludes after lunch on Sunday, October 7th. The cost is…
“Colorado Defies the Supreme Court, Renews Persecution of a Christian Baker” by David French, National Review, August 15, 2018. “Identifying the Sin of Sodom in Ezekiel 16:49-50” by Brian Neal Peterson, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, June 2018. by Dr. Ralph Blair (PDF version available here) Ina Duley Ogdon was disappointed when plans for…
Gifted to Give by Ralph Blair 1993 (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 Dr. Blair’s keynote address at connECtion 1993, the summer conferences of Evangelicals Concerned, which were held in Pennsylvania…
by Ralph Blair 1977 (PDF version available here.) “Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.” Galatians 5 FROM LEGALISTIC PERSECUTION… In the name of God, negative response to homosexuals over the years has ranged from killing to ridicule, always with…
by Dr. Ralph Blair (PDF version available here.) From Whence Cometh Our Help? is Dr. Blair’s keynote address at the 25th annual eastern and western connECtions of Evangelicals Concerned, in the summer of 2004. Once upon a time there was a psychologist who had never matured beyond the use of inkblots. One day he was…
by Ralph Blair (PDF version available here.) Introduction I approach this topic with some sense of uneasiness, not only because of the recurring poverty of ethics in my own life but also because I know that due to some understandably bad experiences with oppression at the hands of homophobic church people, discussion of ethics in…
by Dr. Ralph Blair This booklet is based on material which Dr. Blair presented in Atlanta at the 1982 national convention of the Christian Association for Psychological Studies in April and on material he presented in an address in March at the Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminaries in Elkhart, Indiana. Some of it has been published…
by Ralph Blair “Gifted with GOD’s Way as Our Way!” is Dr. Ralph Blair’s Keynote at the 78th EC Summer ConnECtion, June 1-3, 2018 at The Kirkridge Retreat Center atop the Appalachian Trail in Pennsylvania. (For PDF version click here.) Who knows folks who think everything needs to go their way? Anyone come to mind? …
(PDF version available here) EC’s 2018 ConnECtion will come together over June 1 – 3, 2018 up on the mountain at Kirkridge, where our eastern ConnECtion has met each summer since 1980. Registration can be done online on the first page at www.ecinc.org And, here’s a complete list of all of EC’s summer…
“Mississippi Church Pushes Back Against History of Racism” by Zoe Erler, byFaith, Q1.18; “A Mouthful of Bluff” by Joel Belz, World magazine, April 14, 2018; “Look Out. Christianity Will Soon be Labeled ‘Hate Speech’ ” by David Rupert, Red Letter Believers: Salt and Light, at Patheos’ Evangelical channel, April 16, 2018; “Did Evangelicals ‘Kidnap’ the…