Soaring brick-and-mortar tributes to God can be found in any community. Churches especially permeate places that test faith and offer little hope, places like North Philadelphia. The imagery inside, however, shows that the God these houses are dedicated to may not

be as universal as we like to think.
The Bright Hope Baptist Church sits at the [...]

In 1959, Yorktown, the neighborhood directly south of Main Campus, did not exist.

Alphonso Richardson first tried to get a job with Temple University in 1980, the year he graduated high school. It was 27 years later that he finally secured employment, taking a job with maintenance and housekeeping. Richardson’s story underscores why Temple can never be an economic lifeline for North Philadelphia. At the same time, it [...]

Today is Feb. 14th. All of you gentlemen who are fortunate enough to have someone you actually want to buy a gift for know what that means. It means you go places you never imagined yourself going. For me, that place was Victoria’s Secret.
Why there, you ask? Well, I couldn’t go to someplace like Bed [...]

Business is the heart of any city. It provides the rhythm a city needs to survive and prosper. Philadelphia policymakers do not seem to understand this. They have been taxing businesses out of the city limits for decades.
The tax in question is the Business Privilege Tax. The first part of the BPT taxes a [...]

Temple has been making progress in interfaith dialogue recently, which is something the university could benefit from itself.
As reported in today’s issue of The Temple News, an offer of $1.5 million toward the creation of a chair in Islamic studies was withdrawn after President Ann Weaver Hart decided to neither accept nor reject the offer [...]

Mayor-elect Michael Nutter has chosen Charles Ramsey, former police chief of Washington, D.C., as Philadelphia’s next police commissioner.
Ramsey has a long history as a police officer and chief, and helped lower crime in Washington. However, his record also has blemishes, which Philadelphia should recognize.
Ramsey has been accused of civil rights abuses in the past.
In 2002, [...]

When Jack Klotz arrived in London in July 2005, his first day did not go quite the way he expected.
Klotz, a Main Campus faculty member, arrived in London the morning of the subway attacks that struck London July 7. Eighteen Temple students were also going to England for the communications school’s summer program.
“One of our [...]

Tonight, one of six Democratic presidential debates will take place at Drexel University. Not at Temple.
Damien LaVera, a spokesman for the Democratic National Committee, said Drexel has the positive attitude about politics that the DNC was looking for.
“Drexel students are excited about the issues,” LaVera said.
There is no doubt the Drexel community is politically active, [...]

Temple’s foreign programs are wide-ranging and popular, and you don’t even know about Chinese law reform.
Temple has been running a program for almost a decade in Beijing. The Temple-Beijing Rule of Law program, housed in Tsinghua University, teaches a 15-month course on American law.
“It is the first and only program to offer a foreign law [...]