Keynote for EC’s 2023 ConnECtion by Ralph Blair (PDF version available here.) Twenty centuries ago, the Apostle Paul mentored early Christians in the Greek city of Philippi, giving them pragmatically spiritual support that we all still need today. He warned that, as Christians, we’ll be persecuted. Still, as he tells us all: “Don’t be…
(PDF version available here.) EC is looking forward to another Covid-conscious ConnECtion this summer with our guest keynoters, Cindy Stevens-Pino and Jim Lucas. It’ll be safely available on our website, www.ECinc.org in June. In 1977, two years after we founded Evangelicals Concerned, a former beauty queen, pop singer and Florida orange juice spokesperson, Anita Bryant,…
(PDF version available here.) Jim Lucas and Cindy Stevens-Pino will guest keynote ConnECtion2023 – our 81st summer ConnECtion since 1980. (Some summers we had more than 1 ConnECtion.) Jim grew up gay in homophobic Christian Reformed circles and now he does pastoral ministry with LGBT folks. Singer/songwriter Marsha Stevens-Pino’s life partner, Cindy, does Christian mission…
“The Existential Despair of Godification”by Daniel Greenfield, Frontpage, October 4, 2022; “Homosexuality is being accepted in prominent conservative, Christian circles. Here’s proof” by Doug Mainwaring, LifeSiteNews, October 7, 2021; “Eastern University Changes Its Doctrines on Marriage” by Terry Mattingly, GetReligion, November 24, 2022 (PDF version available here) Greenfield is an Israeli-born conservative writer at Frontpage,…
“The LGBT Fad” by Kaylee McGhee White, Washington Examiner, June 7, 2022.“Putin’s Anti-Gay War on Ukraine”by Emil Edenborg, Boston Review, March 14, 2022. (PDF version available here.) White is a visiting fellow at Independent Women’s Forum and writes commentary for the Detroit News, RealClearPolitics, the Weekly Standard and the Washington Examiner. She notes that a report from The Center for the Study…
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”,…
(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…
(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…
(PDF version available here.) The Keynotes of EC’s ConnECtion 2021 can be read on our ECinc.org website at https://ecinc.org/connection-2021/ They are “Homosexuality & the Christian Reformed Church” by Gayla R. Postma, and “Loving Others in the Energy of God’s Loving Us” by Ralph Blair. They’re easiest to read in the PDF versions. Hendrik “Henk” Hart,…