Ralph Blair’s 2022 EC ConnECtion Keynote (PDF version available here.) Caesarea Philippi, at the foot of Mount Hermon, was more than an eight-hours walk from Galilee. Its stone cliffs were pockmarked with pagan shrines in honor of Zeus, Nemesis, Pan and The Dancing Goats in risqué fertility rites of bestiality, along with “The Gates of Hades”,…
Three Presentations We’re Never Alone at Thanksgiving!All Thanksgiving, already and thankfully is, a Togethering. (Read Presentation here.) Pilgrims Enlighten the Dawn Lands400th Anniversary of the Pilgrims’ Thanksgiving with the Wampanoags (Read Presentation here.) Our 21st Year in the 21st Century: Maturity?Making it to Maturity Means Much More than Amassing More Years. (Read Presentation here.) by…
“At the PCA General Assembly, the Little Guys Stood Up” by Carl R. Trueman, First Things, July 8, 2021. By Dr. Ralph Blair (PDF version available here.) Trueman says: “The little guys stood up.” He’s referring to men who meet their own needs for sexual/romantic intimacy with a wife of mutual choice but trample on…
(PDF version available here.) 2021’s EC Fall Festival texts will be posted on EC’s website in October. Titles of Ralph Blair’s 3 lectures: You’re Never Alone at Thanksgiving! Pilgrims Enlighten the Dawn Lands Maturity in the 21st Year of the 21st Century? The Supreme Court declined to hear a case of a Christian florist who…
Still Time to Care: What We Can Learn from the Church’s Failed Attempt to Cure Homosexuality by Greg Johnson, (Zondervan, 2021). “A Certain Madness Amok: In Canada, trans ‘justice’ has gone haywire” by Bruce Bawer, City Journal, April 1, 2021. By Dr. Ralph Blair (PDF version available here.) After far too many damaging decades of…
connECtion 2021 Keynoteby EC founderRalph Blair (PDF version available here) All real love is the most profound of all connections and it is generated and energized by the One Who is, Himself, Love, The Eternally Triune God. Yet, lovingly created in God’s Image and called to connect with one another by love, we fail…
“Fearfully and Wonderfully Made: Kentucky’s Gay Teens Don’t Need Conversion Torture” by Daniel M. Beasley, The Lexington Herald Leader, February 4, 2021, updated February 6, 2021. “Prohibiting Prayer in Australia” by Carl R. Trueman, First Things, February 8, 2021 by Dr. Ralph Blair (PDF version available here.) Beasley identifies as, “an out gay Black man…
“Same-Sex Relationships and the CRC”, by Gayla R. Postma, The Banner, October 12, 2020. by Dr. Ralph Blair (PDF version available here.) Nearly a half-century ago, Christian Reformed Church scholars (e.g., Woudstra, Hart, Olthuis, Smedes, Wolterstorff, et al) supported gay and lesbian Christians. In January, 1985, midway through his tenure as editor of The Banner, CRC’s monthly, Andrew…
The 17th Annual Octoberfest of Evangelicals Concerned EC’s 2020 Octoberfest Keynote by EC founderRalph Blair (PDF version available here.) “What’s the matter?” Have you ever been asked this question by anyone? Has anyone ever asked this of you? What does the question mean? What’s meant in the mind of the one who asks? What’s meant…
(PDF version available here) EC’s 2020 Octoberfest will be via the Internet due to the need for physical distancing during the pandemic, just as we met via the Internet for our 2020 ConnECtion in June. In October, we will be remembering the 400th Anniversary of the Puritan Pilgrims’ arrival in the New World. Roy Clements,…