“Why Do All Rabbis Hate Me: How the Orthodox community can cultivate compassion and sensitivity toward LGBTQ Jews” by Chaim Nissel, Tablet,June 28, 2023. “Yeshiva University’s Dean Chaim Nissel has not acted like a queer ally and is in no position to teach LGBTQ sensitivity”, Orthodox Mental Health, July 11, 2023 by Dr. Ralph Blair…
(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…
Keynote for EC’s 2023 ConnECtion by Ralph Blair (PDF version available here.) Twenty centuries ago, the Apostle Paul mentored early Christians in the Greek city of Philippi, giving them pragmatically spiritual support that we all still need today. He warned that, as Christians, we’ll be persecuted. Still, as he tells us all: “Don’t be…
“From Creation & Insurrection to Redemption & Resurrection: God’s Grace Overcomes All of Our Self-Destructive Self-Deceptions.”by Ralph Blair (PDF version available here) Through all of the ages of God’s Gracious Revelations to humanity, from generously Creating us in His Image to flourish as human beings, through all of the ages of our ungrateful responses…
Three Presentations We’re Never Alone at Thanksgiving!All Thanksgiving, already and thankfully is, a Togethering. (Read Presentation here.) Pilgrims Enlighten the Dawn Lands400th Anniversary of the Pilgrims’ Thanksgiving with the Wampanoags (Read Presentation here.) Our 21st Year in the 21st Century: Maturity?Making it to Maturity Means Much More than Amassing More Years. (Read Presentation here.) by…
Pilgrims Enlighten the Dawn Lands 400th Anniversary of the Pilgrims’ Thanksgiving with the Wampanoags by Ralph Blair(PDF version available here) After surviving the dreadful storms of their Atlantic crossing, The Mayflower’s Pilgrims were swept to a safe harbor far to the north of their expected landfall in Virginia. It was just in time to shelter…
We’re Never Alone at Thanksgiving!All Thanksgiving, already and thankfully is, a Togethering. by Ralph Blair (PDF version available here) Each year, in late October or early November, it’s usually singles, who’re asked a friendly question many find awkward to answer. Yet, in 2020, given lockdowns and social distancing restrictions, it wasn’t so awkward to…
connECtion 2021 Keynoteby EC founderRalph Blair (PDF version available here) All real love is the most profound of all connections and it is generated and energized by the One Who is, Himself, Love, The Eternally Triune God. Yet, lovingly created in God’s Image and called to connect with one another by love, we fail…