On February 3 Temple University in Philadelphia announced its new “Fly in 4” program.   Essentially, Temple will give 500 lower income students, or seven percent of the incoming class, a grant of $4000 if they promise not to work more than ten hours a week.

Let Us Seek His Anointing That We May Minister With His Power (by WRF Member, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

I wonder if there is something that is missing in your life as a believer in Christ? As a minister of His Gospel? I wonder if that one missing thing might be the anointing of God?

Does the way you see the biblical ‘role of women’ show you where you belong in a denomination?  For me, the function of a denomination has been especially hard to understand

I recently came across a legal alert from a Christian organization that directs pastors who learn of suspected child abuse to first conduct their own internal investigation “to decide whether the situation requires reporting to the authorities.”  Yikes!

What is our Christian take on marriage?  Right now we say a lot about hetero and homo, important though that is, but we’re pitifully slow at getting to the heart of what God tells us about marriage. This is it: believers in Jesus Christ should marry believers, and lean together on Jesus to do it right.

Francis Spufford, UNAPOLOGETIC: WHY, DESPITE EVERYTHING, CHRISTIANITY CAN STILL MAKE SURPRISING EMOTIONAL SENSE. London: Faber & Faber; San Francisco: Harper One, 2012, xiii, 221 pp. $25.99. 

A Book Review by WRF Member This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. John Boyer Chair of Evangelism and Culture Westminster Theological Seminary

Yeshua looks around. He sees the doves in their wicker cages,

At one point in his ministry Jesus became frustrated with the cities of Galilee.  Matthew tells us, “He began to reproach the cities in which most of his miracles were done, because they did not repent….’You, Capernaum, will not be exalted to heaven, will you? 

WRF Member Thiago Silva Asks, "What Is the Church and What Is Its Purpose?"WRF Member Thiago Silva Asks, "What Is the Church and What Is Its Purpose?" January 20, 2014 Thiago SilvaWhat Is the Church and What Is Its Purpose? 1 Peter 2.9

Yes, you read the title of this piece correctly. 

On January 8 the Department of Justice co-wrote a letter with the Department of Education and sent it to public schools around the country. 

I take advantage of the two articles on the recent papal document to suggest a different perspective on it.

Five chapters, 288 paragraphs, and more than 220 pages. This is the Apostolic Letter of Pope Francis titled The Joy of the Gospel (Evangelii Gaudium),

A Response to Mr. Robert Heerdt’s Thoughts on Pope Francis’s EVANGELII GAUDIUM

When Nelson Mandela died last week at the age of 95, he moved into the realm of sainthood.   How else does one describe this man around whom myth circulates like a golden cloud?