The mainstream media are blacking out the story that Fox News has reported relentlessly.  Dr. Jonathan Gruber, the M.I. T. economics professor who was the chief designer of the Affordable Care Act, has been caught on video five times and counting.  He has boasted that the ObamaCare law was sold to a “stupid” American public as a deliberate lie.  It was composed in “torturous language” to obscure the fact that it would never deliver what President Obama and the law’s promoters promised. 

On November 6, we posted here on the WRF website information about a meeting which was held earlier that day at the Vatican in Rome.  The essence of that meeting was an address given by Dr. Geoff Tunnicliffe, International Director of the World Evangelical Alliance, in which he urged both Roman Catholics and Evangelical Protestants to find ways of working together on those matters where both communities may be largely in agreement.

 As a member of WRF and indeed of the Church of Christ  I would like to make a few comments in response to the statement by Dr. Tunnicliffe during his visit to the Vatican regarding what he terms as New Era in Evangelical and Roman Catholic Relations.

Utah State was leading Oregon 7-0 early in the second quarter on Saturday evening, November 8.  Utah’s quarterback dropped back and lofted the ball long to wide receiver Kaelin Clay who caught it wide open and ran untouched for a 78 yard touchdown.  Fans screamed.  The announcers were ecstatic.  It was perfect.   Beautiful!  One problem: the referee did not signal “touchdown.”

In Houston a strong reaction has emerged against the assault on religious liberty and freedom of speech by the mayor and the City Council.  Sunday night, November 2, Houston pastors and their supporters held a national protest called, “I Stand Sunday.” 

On a Fox News program, Sunday, October 26, Eric Metaxas called for a revolt.  Metaxas is the author of the best seller,“Bonhoeffer, Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy.” He said he read about the Houston city government subpoenaing the sermons of five Houston pastors and couldn’t believe it.

It’s not the first time and it won’t be the last.  But here in America it takes one’s breath away.  Here’s the story:

A few days ago a kindergarten student named Elizabeth, a little five-year-old girl who lives in Mobile, Alabama, drew something at school that looked like a gun.  Then, laughing, she pointed a crayon at a fellow student and said, “Bang! Bang!”  The teacher took the weapon away from the child and promptly marched her down to the principal’s office. 

 Are you feeling a little nervous now that Ebola is here in the United States?

The Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta and virtually all the other experts assure us we do not need to worry.  But maybe we should.  At least a little.

 One of the reasons I love history is because I get to know how the story of a particular person or event ends.  It’s satisfying.  When we consider the story of our times, I know how that one is going to end too.  But the problem is to figure out just where we are in the timeline. 

Introductory Statement by the Publications Committee of the WRF Board of Directors:  Dr. Clair Davis, an individual member of the WRF, has requested the posting on the WRF website of the signed statement by numerous individuals and a similar statement by the Session of New Life Presbyterian Church (PCA; Glenside, Pennsylvania) both affirming the belief that Dr. Doug Green, also an individual member of the WRF, is fully orthodox and that his teaching is consistent with the Westminster Standards.   Westminster Theological Seminary, at which Dr. Green taught for many years and from which he was “honorably retired” in June of 2014, is an organizational member of the WRF.

Interpreting The Signs – Both in the Present and in the Future

by WRF Board Chairman, Dr. Rick Perrin 

It happened more than two generations now.  But we must remember as if it were tomorrow.