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…
(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…
(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…
(PDF version available here) Following his death, Billy Graham was honored with a special issue of Christianity Today, the flagship evangelical periodical he founded in 1956. CT recognizes that, “the forces gathered and unleashed at the Berlin, Lausanne, and Amsterdam meetings [initiated by Graham] constitute a third worldwide ecumenical movement, every bit as important as…
(PDF version available here) Justin Lee founded and, for some 16 years, led the evangelical Gay Christian Network in support of biblically-serious Christians in faithfully living their lives as same-sex attracted persons, whether in a monogamous partnership or in celibacy. But, the GCN Board suddenly announced: “Justin and the Board have come to realize they…
(PDF version available here) The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (CBMW), in cahoots with the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), has released “The Nashville Statement”, the latest big antigay manifesto. The Southern Baptists published their first antigay declaration, along with their protest against Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson’s proclamation…
(PDF version available here) 2017 is another milestone year for Evangelicals Concerned. In early June we held our 75th summer ConnECtion retreat, our Diamond Jubilee (considering all of EC’s summer retreats in the East, Midwest and West, since 1980). Besides another keynote from EC’s founder, we heard a keynote from Sully screenwriter Todd Komarnicki and…
(PDF version available here.) “Donald Trump’s More Accepting Views on Gay Issues Set Him Apart in G.O.P”. This was The New York Times headline on April 22, 2016. Given the LGBT anxiety over the election results – Columbia professors even wrote, “the cluster of suicides this month can have no other meaning” [since retracted] –…
(PDF version available here.) The 2017 Evangelicals Concerned calendar includes our 30th Presidents Day Winter Weekend Bible Study, our 75th ConnECtion and our 15th Fall Preaching Festival. The Presidents Day Weekend Bible study will be February 18-20 at The Turning Point at Kirkridge Retreat in the mountains of eastern Pennsylvania. ConnECtion2017 will be June…