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…
“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…
“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…
“Does Genesis 2 Support Same-Sex Marriage? An Evangelical Response” by Brian Neil Peterson, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, December 2017. by Dr. Ralph Blair (PDF version available here) Peterson is distracted by recent “cultural changes in the West”, but he fails to take note of the far greater conceptual and cultural changes from ancient…
The Grace of Shame: 7 Ways the Church has Failed to Love Homosexuals by Tim Bayly, Joseph Bayly, Jurgen von Hagen (Warhorn Media, 2017), 165 pp. by Dr. Ralph Blair (PDF version available here) Tim Bayly’s dad was the late Joe Bayly, IVCF editor, author of The Gospel Blimp, and, for a quarter century, a…
“I’m a gay man, happily married to a woman. And I’m not the only one”, LifeSiteNews, March 27, 2017; “The Case for Dating Non-Christians” by David and Constantino Khalaf, Progressive Channel, Patheos, December 7, 2016; For Those Tears I Died by Marsha Stevens-Pino (Canyon Walker Press, 2016), 249 pp.; To Drink from the Silver Cup…
“Nicholas Wolterstorff’s Cheap Shots: Why the Christian Philosopher’s Case for Same-Sex Marriage is Shallow” by Wesley Hill, First Things, November 1, 2016; “The Tyranny of Decadence” by Peter Jones, truthXchange, June 5, 2017. by Dr. Ralph Blair (PDF version available here) More than a decade before Wesley Hill graduated from college and two years before…
“Religious Freedom for Me but Not for Thee?” by Paul Crookston, National Review, February 21, 2017; “Europe’s Islam Problem and U.S. Immigration Policy” by Shannon Gilreath, Washington Blade, January 19, 2017. by Dr. Ralph Blair (PDF version available here.) National Review’s Collegiate Network Fellow and Gordon College graduate, Crookston, rightly notes: “America’s enshrinement of religious…
“Keller, Moore, De Young on How to Speak to Our Culture About Sex”, Ryan Troglin, ed., The Gospel Coalition, August 23, 2016. by Dr. Ralph Blair (PDF version available here.) In 1954, C. S. Lewis was asked about homosexuality. He recalled 1918, when he was an atheist and his closest friend, a devout Christian, confided…
“Sexuality and Gender” by Lawrence S. Mayer and Paul R. McHugh, The New Atlantis, Fall 2016. by Dr. Ralph Blair (PDF version available here.) Plain Reasons for the Growth of Sodomy in England, a 1728 tome, blamed tea and the “pernicious influence” of Italian opera. Today, there’s still alarm over the growth of what folks…