REVIEW Winter 2019 Vol. 44 No. 1

ByDr. Ralph Blair

Talking Across the Divide by Justin Lee, (Penguin, 2018), 259 pp. by Dr. Ralph Blair  (PDF version available here) Self-righteousness is the most desperate of motivations as it’s internally sensed to be the least defensible.  There’s no limit to the ruthlessly irrational lengths to which many resort to rationalize their postured, sanctimonious rhetoric, resistance, rebellion…

REVIEW. Winter 2013 Vol. 38. No. 1.

ByDr. Ralph Blair

Torn: Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays-vs.-Christian Debate by Justin Lee (Jericho Books, 2012) 259 pp. (PDF version available here) Since lesbian and gay youth are ridiculed, caricatured, guilt-tripped, kicked out of families, churches and Christian schools, it’s not inexplicable that they’d try to steer clear of their abusers – including the religious ringleaders of…