(PDF version available here.) Real Clear Religion reports: “The modern Democratic party is nearly evenly divided by religious voters and secular ones. It’s 52% vs 48% right now. But don’t be surprised when it flips the other way in the next five years. I think that’s just inevitable at this point. The GOP is also…
(PDF version available here.) Christianity Today reports on Wheaton College’s racist history: “Though the flagship evangelical institution was founded by abolitionists, over the next century and a half it turned away from concerns about racial equality. Even when the school’s leadership knew what was right, they frequently lacked the courage to ‘take a more vocal…
(PDF version available here.) If you missed EC’s 3 Internet presentations of our 2023 ConnECtion, posted on June 25, check them out in video, audio or in PDF text, at www.ECINC.org. 2023 Pride marchers chanted, “We’re here, we’re queer, we’re coming for your children!” Decades before these marchers were born, this was the lie Anita…
(PDF version available here.) EC is looking forward to another Covid-conscious ConnECtion this summer with our guest keynoters, Cindy Stevens-Pino and Jim Lucas. It’ll be safely available on our website, www.ECinc.org in June. In 1977, two years after we founded Evangelicals Concerned, a former beauty queen, pop singer and Florida orange juice spokesperson, Anita Bryant,…
(PDF version available here.) Jim Lucas and Cindy Stevens-Pino will guest keynote ConnECtion2023 – our 81st summer ConnECtion since 1980. (Some summers we had more than 1 ConnECtion.) Jim grew up gay in homophobic Christian Reformed circles and now he does pastoral ministry with LGBT folks. Singer/songwriter Marsha Stevens-Pino’s life partner, Cindy, does Christian mission…
(PDF version available here.) We in EC have fond memories of our visits to Ocean Grove on the Jersey shore – weekends of worship at our autumn EC retreats in Thornley Chapel, built in 1889, and summer Choir Festivals in The Great Auditorium, constructed in 1894. The inside covers of Ocean Grove’s hymnal, have a…
(PDF version available here.) The Patriarch of Russia’s Orthodox Church praises Putin’s invasion of Ukraine that’s resulted in so many thousands of civilian casualties. What especially pleases this religious leader is that Putin’s attack is a defense against the West’s push for gay pride. Danusha V. Goska, a college professor and author of, God Through Binoculars, wasborn to Eastern European peasant immigrants…
(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…
(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,…
(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…