Talks and Lectures by Dr. Blair
“Temptations!”Our Foolishly Flawed Fantasies & Our Father’s Faithful Facts of Life by Ralph Blair (PDF version available here) Temptations are conceived in self-centered cravings for selfishly driven satisfactions, while ignoring others’ welfare, and with a dire lack of gratitude for the most gracious gift of all, God’s Incarnation of Himself in Jesus, who willingly…
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…
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…
by Ralph Blair 1977 (PDF version available here.) “Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.” Galatians 5 FROM LEGALISTIC PERSECUTION… In the name of God, negative response to homosexuals over the years has ranged from killing to ridicule, always with…
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 Dr. Ralph Blair This booklet is based on material which Dr. Blair presented in Atlanta at the 1982 national convention of the Christian Association for Psychological Studies in April and on material he presented in an address in March at the Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminaries in Elkhart, Indiana. Some of it has been published…
Ralph Blair is a psychotherapist in private practice in New York City. He is also the founder of Evangelicals Concerned, a national organization of Christians addressing the integration of Christian lifestyle and homosexuality. This booklet is an expanded edition of continuing education lectures given by Dr. Blair to United Methodist clergy meeting at the Churches…
by Dr. Ralph Blair This booklet is a slightly expanded version of an address delivered by Dr. Blair at the Annual Michigan Area United Methodist Pastor’s School, August 22, 1983 on the campus of Ferris State College in Big Rapids, Michigan. Dr. Blair’s address followed one by Dr. Robert Lyon, Professor of New Testament Interpretation…
The Bond that Breaks the Boundaries An expanded version of a lecture by Dr. Ralph Blair to Courage Trust at the Anglican Church of St. James the Less, Pimlico, London, November 2, 2001. (PDF version available here.) When it comes to the subject of gay and lesbian evangelical Christians, most evangelical Christians agree with most…
The Quarterly Journal of The Homosexual Community Counseling Center EDITORIALS Dr. Ralph Blair, Editor 1974 Editorials: Charter Volume, Numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 1975 Editorials: Volume II, Numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 1976 Editorials: Volume III, Numbers 1, 2 “Dr. Blair is scrupulously thorough and shows a remarkable analytic ability in his evaluation of the…