by Ralph Blair 1977 (PDF version available here.) “Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.” Galatians 5 FROM LEGALISTIC PERSECUTION… In the name of God, negative response to homosexuals over the years has ranged from killing to ridicule, always with…
by Dr. Ralph Blair (PDF version available here.) From Whence Cometh Our Help? is Dr. Blair’s keynote address at the 25th annual eastern and western connECtions of Evangelicals Concerned, in the summer of 2004. Once upon a time there was a psychologist who had never matured beyond the use of inkblots. One day he was…
by Ralph Blair (PDF version available here.) Introduction I approach this topic with some sense of uneasiness, not only because of the recurring poverty of ethics in my own life but also because I know that due to some understandably bad experiences with oppression at the hands of homophobic church people, discussion of ethics in…
by Dr. Ralph Blair This booklet is based on material which Dr. Blair presented in Atlanta at the 1982 national convention of the Christian Association for Psychological Studies in April and on material he presented in an address in March at the Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminaries in Elkhart, Indiana. Some of it has been published…
“Mississippi Church Pushes Back Against History of Racism” by Zoe Erler, byFaith, Q1.18; “A Mouthful of Bluff” by Joel Belz, World magazine, April 14, 2018; “Look Out. Christianity Will Soon be Labeled ‘Hate Speech’ ” by David Rupert, Red Letter Believers: Salt and Light, at Patheos’ Evangelical channel, April 16, 2018; “Did Evangelicals ‘Kidnap’ the…
“Does Genesis 2 Support Same-Sex Marriage? An Evangelical Response” by Brian Neil Peterson, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, December 2017. by Dr. Ralph Blair (PDF version available here) Peterson is distracted by recent “cultural changes in the West”, but he fails to take note of the far greater conceptual and cultural changes from ancient…
(PDF version available here) Following his death, Billy Graham was honored with a special issue of Christianity Today, the flagship evangelical periodical he founded in 1956. CT recognizes that, “the forces gathered and unleashed at the Berlin, Lausanne, and Amsterdam meetings [initiated by Graham] constitute a third worldwide ecumenical movement, every bit as important as…
(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…
The Grace of Shame: 7 Ways the Church has Failed to Love Homosexuals by Tim Bayly, Joseph Bayly, Jurgen von Hagen (Warhorn Media, 2017), 165 pp. by Dr. Ralph Blair (PDF version available here) Tim Bayly’s dad was the late Joe Bayly, IVCF editor, author of The Gospel Blimp, and, for a quarter century, a…
“I’m a gay man, happily married to a woman. And I’m not the only one”, LifeSiteNews, March 27, 2017; “The Case for Dating Non-Christians” by David and Constantino Khalaf, Progressive Channel, Patheos, December 7, 2016; For Those Tears I Died by Marsha Stevens-Pino (Canyon Walker Press, 2016), 249 pp.; To Drink from the Silver Cup…