(PDF version available here) Justin Lee founded and, for some 16 years, led the evangelical Gay Christian Network in support of biblically-serious Christians in faithfully living their lives as same-sex attracted persons, whether in a monogamous partnership or in celibacy. But, the GCN Board suddenly announced: “Justin and the Board have come to realize they…
(PDF version available here) The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (CBMW), in cahoots with the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), has released “The Nashville Statement”, the latest big antigay manifesto. The Southern Baptists published their first antigay declaration, along with their protest against Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson’s proclamation…
LUTHER 500 The 500th Year of Luther’s Reformation The 15th Annual Evangelicals Concerned Preaching Fest Ocean Grove, New Jersey, October 6-8, 2017 An Introductory Lecture and Three Sermons Dr. Ralph Blair (PDF version available here.) LUTHER 500: Sola Gratia Well, what did you bring with you this afternoon – besides all that coffee you drank…
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…
“Nicholas Wolterstorff’s Cheap Shots: Why the Christian Philosopher’s Case for Same-Sex Marriage is Shallow” by Wesley Hill, First Things, November 1, 2016; “The Tyranny of Decadence” by Peter Jones, truthXchange, June 5, 2017. by Dr. Ralph Blair (PDF version available here) More than a decade before Wesley Hill graduated from college and two years before…
(PDF version available here) 2017 is another milestone year for Evangelicals Concerned. In early June we held our 75th summer ConnECtion retreat, our Diamond Jubilee (considering all of EC’s summer retreats in the East, Midwest and West, since 1980). Besides another keynote from EC’s founder, we heard a keynote from Sully screenwriter Todd Komarnicki and…
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…
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…
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…
“Sexuality and Gender” by Lawrence S. Mayer and Paul R. McHugh, The New Atlantis, Fall 2016. by Dr. Ralph Blair (PDF version available here.) Plain Reasons for the Growth of Sodomy in England, a 1728 tome, blamed tea and the “pernicious influence” of Italian opera. Today, there’s still alarm over the growth of what folks…