By Jon Brown, Christian Post Reporter
Wheaton College, a non-public Evangelical college in Wheaton, Illinois, has faced a torrent of criticism in fresh days for inserting off a social media submit final week that congratulated alumnus Russell Vought for his appointment in the Trump administration.
“Wheaton College congratulates and prays for 1998 graduate Russell Vought in relation to his senatorial affirmation to abet because the White Residence Director of the Situation of job of Administration and Funds!” the since-deleted Friday submit acknowledged.
Wheaton, which boasts John Piper, the leisurely Rev. Billy Graham and notorious martyr Jim Elliot amongst its alumni, pulled the submit following on-line backlash from some alumni who alleged Vought doesn’t replicate the values of the establishment.
“The recognition and prayer is something we’d generally enact for any graduate who reached that level of authorities,” Wheaton acknowledged in an announcement on Saturday explaining the submit’s removal. “Nonetheless, the political dispute surrounding [Vought’s] appointment led to a important arena expressed on-line. It used to be now not our procedure to embroil the College in a political dialogue or dispute.”
“Our institutional and theological commitments are positive that the College, as a non-earnings establishment, doesn’t scheme political endorsements. Wheaton College’s point of interest is on Christ and His Kingdom,” the college added.
When reached for comment, a spokesperson for Wheaton referred The Christian Post to their Saturday assertion and acknowledged they occupy nothing more to add.
Vought, who has been accused of supporting Christian nationalism and has claimed the Left tries to dismay Christians from being engaged in the political job, responded to the controversy by tweeting merely: “SAD!”
SAD! https://t.co/TaXfiuWHc1
— Russ Vought (@russvought) February 8, 2025
Wheaton’s removal of the submit precipitated an eruption of backlash from of us that claimed the college has been capitulating to liberalism for years.
“Russ Vought is a extremely done alumni who must be famend. It’s absurd that the smallest minority of detractors reach away victorious all over again,” Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., acknowledged in a submit on X.
“If Wheaton bends the knee per intolerant mobs of the left on something like *encouraging prayer for a notorious alum*, it’s essential wonder how well they’re making appealing college students for a adversarial world that hates the Gospel,” wrote Mollie Hemingway, a journalist who serves as editor-in-chief of The Federalist.
Christian author Eric Metaxas suggested Wheaton has been exhibiting cowardice masquerading as kindness, a pattern he claims has weakened the American church and opened the door to unfavorable political leaders.
“For years now Wheaton has led the vogue in the fraudulent ‘good’ Christianity that feminized the church buildings and let the Dems execute our country. Wheaton and Christianity Today time and church buildings that scheme now not stand clearly in opposition to heinous are the fig tree that Jesus cursed,” wrote Metaxas, who has written plenty of books laying out what he sees because the sobering parallels between the passivity of the American church as of late and the German church ahead of the upward thrust of Nazism.
For years now Wheaton has led the vogue in the fraudulent “good” Christianity that feminized the church buildings and let the Dems execute our country. Wheaton and Christianity Today time and church buildings that scheme now not stand clearly in opposition to heinous are the fig tree that Jesus cursed. https://t.co/R2ltlSZovw
— Eric Metaxas (@ericmetaxas) February 9, 2025
Edie Man and Gabriela Szostak, two alumni who graduated from Wheaton in 2019 and 2021 respectively, condemned their alma mater in a Tuesday op-ed for The Federalist, accusing the college of cowardice and a “leftward lurch.”
“While Wheaton defended its motive for retracting the submit as an effort to lead positive of politics, caving to the mob is precisely what made this political,” Man and Szostak wrote.
“If the rest, Wheaton must be unequivocally jubilant with getting an alumnus at the White Residence, one who will use his net page to enact appropriate in a world that needs it. And it ought to unruffled now not be controversial to pray for him as he takes on a net page which is in a situation to be dilapidated to reach the motive for Christ and His kingdom,” they added.
The 2 famed diversified Wheaton controversies in fresh years that made headlines and raised eyebrows amongst about a of its alumni. They mentioned a campus-extensive e-mail that condemned a legitimate-existence activist for making college students feel “unsafe,” the hiring of an major escape theorist to its college in 2018, and the sponsoring of a speaker who gave a profanity-encumbered, sexually insist focus on on escape.
Additionally they famed how, in 2021, the college eliminated and reworded a plaque in the college’s chapel that venerated the martyrdom of alumni Jim Elliot and Ed McCully, both of whom were murdered by people of the Auca tribe in Ecuador when they attempted to evangelize them in 1956.
After some college students expressed offense at the plaque’s description of Elliot and McCully’s murderers as “savage Indians,” the college’s Senior Administrative Cabinet appointed a role power to re-rob into myth the plaque, which the class of 1949 gifted to the college in 1957 to honor their slain classmates.
Final year, Wheaton College President Philip Ryken — the outmoded senior pastor of Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia — pushed again in opposition to a Fox News op-ed by alumnus Tim Scheiderer, who accused the college of going “woke.”
“[T]he college in the leafy suburb west of Chicago has begun to mimic Harvard’s wokeness,” Scheiderer wrote.
The op-ed claimed that Wheaton began straying from its “orthodox, Christian moorings” by “banning biblical phrases, educating major escape theory, and psychologizing gender identity points.”
Jon Brown is a reporter for The Christian Post. Send records tricks to jon.brown@christianpost.com
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