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Search Results for: Wheaton College

The Wheaton College-Russell Vought controversy continues with the satirical website, “Faux Wheaton”

John Fea   |  February 25, 2025

Not yet familiar with the Wheaton College-Russell Vought controversy? Check there are links to our coverage here. Check it out here. A taste: To the creators and signatories of For Wheaton: THANK YOU!​ This has been a long time coming. […]

The McManis Professor of Christian Thought at Wheaton College responds to recent criticisms of the school

John Fea   |  February 21, 2025

In case you missed it, a Wheaton College graduate took a shot at his alma mater last week in the pages of the conservative journal First Things. We covered it here and here. Today Timothy Larsen, the McManis Professor of […]

Alan Jacobs on that First Things piece on Wheaton College

John Fea   |  February 16, 2025

A disgruntled 2014 Wheaton College graduate named Daniel Davis took a shot at his alma mater last week in the pages of First Things. You can read it here. I don’t want to give too much attention to what I […]

MAGA sets its sights on Wheaton College

John Fea   |  February 10, 2025

Have you heard about this dustup? Read Kathryn Post’s piece at Religion News Service. Here is a taste: On Friday (Feb. 7), Wheaton College, the evangelical Christian school outside Chicago, publicly congratulated Russell Vought, a conservative activist and architect of Project 2025 […]

Should Wheaton College have expunged the name of its third president from the campus library?

John Fea   |  September 23, 2023

Last week we called your attention to Wheaton College’s 122-page report on its history of race. In response to the findings of that report, Wheaton College announced that it would be changing the name of its library. It is no […]

Wheaton College study on race: “We cannot be healed and cannot be reconciled unless and until we repent”

John Fea   |  September 14, 2023

A Wheaton College task force has released a 122-page historical report on race relations at the evangelical institution. Read it here. Here is Daniel Silliman and Kate Shellnut at Christianity Today: Though the flagship evangelical institution was founded by abolitionists, […]

Ed Stetzer leaves Wheaton College for Talbot School of Theology

John Fea   |  February 22, 2023

Some news from the world of American evangelicalism: Biola University is announcing that Dr. Ed Stetzer will assume the role of Dean of Talbot School of Theology beginning July 2, 2023. “For decades, Dr. Ed Stetzer’s visionary presence — most […]

Hey Charlie Kirk–you got the wrong Wheaton College!

John Fea   |  July 12, 2022

Remember back in 2011 when NBC News host Ann Curry confused Wheaton College in Massachusetts with Wheaton College in Illinois? This was particularly embarrassing for Curry because she was delivering the commencement address at one Wheaton College but spoke as […]

Wheaton College celebrates Mark Noll’s Scandal of the Evangelical Mind

John Fea   |  March 17, 2022

More Christian colleges need to have conversations like this. This event celebrates the new edition of the book.

Tim LaHaye had some choice words for Wheaton College when the evangelical school hosted a memorial service for Martin Luther King Jr.

John Fea   |  January 17, 2022

On April 7, 1968, Wheaton College, an evangelical Christian school in Wheaton, Illiinois, hosted a “community-wide memorial service” for Martin Luther King Jr. in the wake of King’s assassination in Memphis on April 4, 1968. The final paragraph of this […]

The Wheaton College professor who teaches critical race theory

John Fea   |  May 1, 2021

Over at Sojourners, Mitchell Atencio interviews Wheaton College (IL) philosophy professor Nathan Cartagena. Here is a taste of the interview: Mitchell Atencio, Sojourners: Because critical race theory has become such a hot-button issue, especially in white evangelical circles, do you […]

“For Wheaton”: Come, Let Us Reason Together

Timothy Larsen   |  February 25, 2025

An open letter to Eric Teetsel, the original signer of “For Wheaton”

An open letter to the signers of the “For Wheaton” letter

Timothy Larsen   |  February 23, 2025

A Wheaton professor weighs in.

Some thoughts on that Newsweek story on Christian colleges

John Fea   |  August 5, 2024

Have you seen Rachel Dobkin’s story on “cancel culture” at evangelical colleges? If not, read it here. Dobkin’s writes: “An increasing number of academics are speaking out about Christian colleges, claiming they were forced out of their jobs because of the rising […]

One great Unicorn for your weekend: Daniel Nayeri’s commencement speech for Wheaton!

Nadya Williams   |  May 17, 2024

Daniel Nayeri’s commencement speech for Wheaton’s graduation this spring is magnificent.

Historian Chris Gehrz on ranking Christian colleges

Nadya Williams   |  April 17, 2024

Historian Chris Gehrz on why college rankings are particularly problematic when it comes to ranking Christian colleges.

Wide Awoke at Wheaton?

Vincent Bacote   |  October 15, 2023

McDermott’s misrepresentations and evangelicals’ missed opportunities lead to lament

Salon covers Hillsdale College’s outsized influence on K-12 education

John Fea   |  March 16, 2022

Yesterday the left-leaning Salon stated a three-part series on Hillsdale College’s influence on local school boards. Here is a taste of Part 1: The mood in Costa Mesa on Feb. 2 was more love bomb than fire bomb: yet another […]

Wide Awoke at Wheaton?

Vincent Bacote   |  October 28, 2021

McDermott’s misrepresentations and evangelicals’ missed opportunities lead to lament

The president of a new conservative organization of Christian colleges misrepresents those Christian schools who did not join his group

John Fea   |  October 11, 2021

David Jesse, a journalist with the Detroit Free Press and a graduate of conservative evangelical Cornerstone University, has a long piece on Christian colleges titled “Some conservative Christian colleges see growth where other schools see declines.” Read it here. Let’s […]

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