(PDF version available here.) EC’s 2022 summer ConnECtion guest keynoters will be Claire Murashima, Calvin University Student Body President, and David Holkeboer, Calvin College grad (Class of ‘78) and longtime NYC/ECer. EC founder, Ralph Blair, will also keynote. In 2022, as in 2020 and 2021, due to Covid, we won’t be meeting in person. In June,…
“The Decline and Renewal of the American Church: Part 1 – The Decline of the Mainline” by Tim Keller, Life in the Gospel, Fall 2021. (PDF version available here.) This first of four articles by Keller is to be followed by, “The Decline of Faith”, “The Path to Renewal”, and “The Power for Renewal”, concluding…
Our 21st Year in the 21st Century: Maturity? Making it to Maturity Means Much More than Amassing More Years. by Ralph Blair(PDF version available here) “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?” That’s a very ancient riddle. It’s a philosophical puzzle on the world’s beginnings and a question about all sorts of other sequences…
(PDF version available here) Welcome to 2021 and the 500th Anniversary of Luther’s testimony before his papal accusers. Luther concluded by affirming: “I am bound by the Scriptures I have quoted and my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything.” EC’s October 2020 keynote, “The Meaning of…