One in What Spirit?

by Ralph Blair One in What Spirit? is an expanded version of Dr. Blair’s keynote at the connECtions2005 at Kirbridge in the eastern Pennsylvania mountains and at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma. A new resident introduces herself to two new patients on the psych ward. “Good morning. I’m Dr. Brown.” “I’m Julius Caesar.” “How do…

Freed for Freedom!

by Dr. Ralph Blair Freed for Freedom! is Ralph Blair’s 2010 keynote at the eastern and western Evangelicals Concerned connECtions at Kirkridge, on the Appalachian Trail in Pennsylvania, and at the Marriott City Center in Oakland, California. “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free!” – Paul A graffiti artist tags trash bins…

“Were You There?”

Dr. Ralph Blair’s Keynote ConnECtion2017 June 3, 2017 Were you there when this question and response was heard each week across America?  “What sort of day was it?  A day like all days, filled with those events that alter and illuminate our times – and you, were there.”  Were you, there? Those words were spoken…

Undoing Every Do; Doing Every Don’t: The Ten Commandments, the Religious Right & the Lesbigayt Left

by Dr. Ralph Blair Based on Dr. Blair’s keynote address at connECtions2000, Evangelicals Concerned’s summer conferences at Kirkridge in Pennsylvania and at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma. A couple months ago, in Uganda, under the banner of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God, more than a thousand men, women and…

Immortal Intimacy: Where, When, Who, Why & What of Heaven

by Dr. Ralph Blair This booklet is an expanded version of Dr. Blair’s keynote address at connECtion 1991, the summer conferences of Evangelicals Concerned, at Kirkridge and at the University of Denver. Copyright ©1991. Ralph Blair, 311 E. 72nd St New York, New York 10021 Peggy Lee sings of going to “the greatest show on…

Empathways

by Ralph Blair Empathways is an expanded version of Dr. Blair’s address at connECtions98 in the summer of 1998. INTRODUCTION “Can I see another’s woe, / And not be in sorrow, too? / Can I see another’s grief, / And not seek for kind relief?” What William Blake here had in mind was empathy as…

Anger!

by Dr. Ralph Blair This booklet is an expanded version of his address on anger at connECtion95, the summer conferences of Evangelicals Concerned at Kirkridge and Mills College, June and July, 1995. ©1995. Ralph Blair, 311 East 72nd Street, New York, New York 10021 INTRODUCTION In a promo for New York City’s Lesbian and Gay…

[The] Overcoming Outrage!

by Ralph Blair [The] Overcoming Outrage is Dr. Ralph Blair’s keynote at the 2009 Evangelicals Concerned summer connECtions held at Kirkridge in the eastern Pennsylvania mountains and at the Holiday Inn in Palm Springs, California. [The] Overcoming Outrage © 2009 by Ralph Blair (PDF version available here.) Have you noticed any rampant outrage these days?…