Keynote address by Dr. Blair at connECtions
The 17th Annual Octoberfest of Evangelicals Concerned EC’s 2020 Octoberfest Keynote by EC founderRalph Blair (PDF version available here.) “What’s the matter?” Have you ever been asked this question by anyone? Has anyone ever asked this of you? What does the question mean? What’s meant in the mind of the one who asks? What’s meant…
ConnECtion2020EC’s 80th ConnECtion over 40 Summers By Ralph Blair (PDF version available here) “When Jesus saw the crowds, he had compassion on them. He saw they were anxious and as helpless as lost sheep without a shepherd.” (Matt 9:36) Jesus saw what Hebrew Prophets and the Psalmist saw and grieved over, so many centuries earlier: “All, like…
by Dr. Ralph Blair BEWARE of BOASTING and BLAMING! is Dr. Ralph Blair’s Keynote at the 79th EC Summer ConnECtion, May 31 – June 2, 2019 at The Kirkridge Retreat Center atop the Appalachian Trail in Pennsylvania (PDF version available here.) Three weeks ago, 150 years ago, a single word was telegraphed all across America. …
Christian Faithing and Self-Esteem by Ralph Blair 1985 (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 Ralph Blair’s keynote address at the summer connECtions85 held in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and California. “We are what we…
HOPE’S GAYS AND GAYS’ HOPES by Ralph Blair 1983 (PDF version available here.) This morning, at the end of my flight from New York City to Grand Rapids, the flight attendant said, in her best commercial airlinese: “We hope you have an enjoyable stay in Grand Rapids, or wherever your final destination may be.” Without…
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 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 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? …
by Ralph Blair This is the text of Ralph Blair’s keynote at connECtion2oo6, the summer weekend gatherings of Evangelicals Concerned, held at Kirkridge Retreat Center on the Appalachian Trail (June 2-4, 2006) and on the campus of Reed College in Portland, Oregon (July 27-30, 2006). Jesus told some Pharisees: “Unlike those who come to…