Talks and Lectures by Dr. Blair
by Dr. Ralph Blair With Sunshine & Rainfall for All: An Evangelical Affirmation of Gay Rights is an expanded version of an address delivered by Dr. Blair at the 34th Annual Meeting of The Evangelical Theological Society in 1982. Dr. Blair is a psychotherapist in private practice in New York City. He is the founder…
CALVIN500/ARMINIUS400 The 7th Annual Evangelicals Concerned Preaching Festival Ocean Grove, New Jersey, October 9-11, 2009 An Introductory Lecture and Three Sermons Dr. Ralph Blair (PDF version available here.) CALVIN500/ARMINIUS400: An Introductory Lecture Calvin500. It’s not the new line from Calvin Klein. And Arminius400 isn’t Armani’s new fragrance. See, some gay men are queer enough to…
The 2016 Evangelicals Concerned Ocean Grove Preaching Festival Columbus Day Weekend October 7-9, 2016 “Five Centuries of Reformation Proclamation” “1516, 1616, 1716, 1816, 1916” John Foxe John Owen John Berridge Francis Asbury J. C. Ryle Eugenia Price Including Three Sermons by Dr. Ralph Blair “Our Sufficiency in The All-Sufficient One”, “Affirming The All-Merciful’s Affirmation of…
“Our Sufficiency in The All-Sufficient One” “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” Philippians 4:13 Dr. Ralph Blair, Speaker (PDF version here) Martin Luther said: “The Bible is alive. It speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me, it has hands, it lays hold of me.” The very most significant…
“THY Kingdom Come” by Dr. Ralph Blair Dr. Blair’s keynote address at connECtion 2016, the summer conferences of Evangelicals Concerned at Kirkridge in the eastern Pennsylvania mountains. (PDF version here) Have you noticed how “un-Presidential” presidential campaigns can get? Instead of what we might assume befits a wannabe president, we get mere precedent and more…
A Time and Place for Us by Dr. Ralph Blair A Time and Place for Us is an expanded version of the Keynote address given by Dr. Blair at the Eastern and Western connECtions2001. (PDF version available here) Frasier has dragged Niles and their father to a basketball game for “a good night of male-bonding”…
Your Story in His Story The 2015 Evangelicals Concerned Autumn Weekend in Ocean Grove October 9 – 11, 2015 Thornley Chapel Commemorating the Centennials of Anna Bartlett Warner, Fanny Jane Crosby, William Howard Doane and Booker T. Washington Including Three Teachings by Dr. Ralph Blair “The Bible Tells Me So”, “This is My Story” and…
Dr. Ralph Blair 1972 (PDF version available here) For too long, it has been an unquestioned assumption that every American boy and girl does or should grow up to be heterosexual. Such an expectation has contributed to much of the suffering of those for whom sexual development is otherwise. This monograph series is dedicated to…
Self-Righteous Enslavement Dr. Ralph Blair Evangelicals Concerned 73rd Connection, May 30, 2015 In 1946, a 20-year-old Flannery O’Connor came north to take part in the prestigious Iowa Writers Workshop. But, privately, she was writing prayers: “Dear Lord, please make my mind vigilant about [loving others]. I say many, many, too many uncharitable things about people…
Self-Centered to Serve: From Selfish Self-Centeredness to Self-Centeredly Informed Service for Others Ralph Blair’s Keynote for connECtion2014 At the time, it was called the “greatest single event in human history”. That was in 1964. Guess what it was! If you were born in 1964 – that wasn’t it. Since it was only 50 years ago,…