By Jon Brown, Christian Put up Reporter
Wheaton College, a non-public Evangelical school in Wheaton, Illinois, has confronted a torrent of criticism in most modern days for taking out a social media put up closing week that congratulated alumnus Russell Vought for his appointment in the Trump administration.
“Wheaton College congratulates and prays for 1998 graduate Russell Vought referring to his senatorial affirmation to reduction as the White House Director of the Place of work of Administration and Funds!” the since-deleted Friday put up said.
Wheaton, which boasts John Piper, the wearisome Rev. Billy Graham and popular martyr Jim Elliot among its alumni, pulled the put up following online backlash from some alumni who alleged Vought doesn’t replicate the values of the institution.
“The recognition and prayer is something we would generally end for any graduate who reached that level of authorities,” Wheaton said in a speak on Saturday explaining the put up’s removal. “On the opposite hand, the political teach surrounding [Vought’s] appointment resulted in a indispensable be troubled expressed online. It changed into no longer our procedure to embroil the College in a political discussion or dispute.”
“Our institutional and theological commitments are clear that the College, as a non-profit institution, doesn’t invent political endorsements. Wheaton College’s level of curiosity is on Christ and His Kingdom,” the college added.
When reached for observation, a spokesperson for Wheaton referred The Christian Put up to their Saturday speak and said they’ve nothing more to add.
Vought, who has been accused of supporting Christian nationalism and has claimed the Left tries to fear Christians from being engaged in the political direction of, answered to the controversy by tweeting simply: “SAD!”
SAD! https://t.co/TaXfiuWHc1
— Russ Vought (@russvought) February 8, 2025
Wheaton’s removal of the put up prompted an eruption of backlash from those that claimed the college has been capitulating to liberalism for years.
“Russ Vought is a extremely achieved alumni who wants to be famed. It’s absurd that the smallest minority of detractors come away victorious once again,” Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., said in a put up on X.
“If Wheaton bends the knee based completely on intolerant mobs of the left on something care for *encouraging prayer for a acquainted alum*, it is needed to shock how well they’re getting exciting students for a adverse world that hates the Gospel,” wrote Mollie Hemingway, a journalist who serves as editor-in-chief of The Federalist.
Christian writer Eric Metaxas urged Wheaton has been exhibiting cowardice masquerading as kindness, a pattern he claims has weakened the American church and opened the door to negative political leaders.
“For years now Wheaton has led the model in the false ‘good’ Christianity that feminized the churches and let the Dems raze our country. Wheaton and Christianity On the present time and churches that create no longer stand clearly in opposition to wrong are the fig tree that Jesus cursed,” wrote Metaxas, who has written diverse books laying out what he sees as the sobering parallels between the passivity of the American church this present day and the German church forward of the upward push of Nazism.
For years now Wheaton has led the model in the false “good” Christianity that feminized the churches and let the Dems raze our country. Wheaton and Christianity On the present time and churches that create no longer stand clearly in opposition to wrong are the fig tree that Jesus cursed. https://t.co/R2ltlSZovw
— Eric Metaxas (@ericmetaxas) February 9, 2025
Edie Guy 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.”
“Whereas Wheaton defended its clarification for retracting the put up as an effort to steer clear of politics, caving to the mob is precisely what made this political,” Guy and Szostak wrote.
“If something else, Wheaton wants to be unequivocally pleased with getting an alumnus on the White House, one who will use his living to total dazzling in a world that wants it. And it can well perchance perchance still no longer be controversial to hope for him as he takes on a living which is in a local to be worn to strategy the clarification for Christ and His kingdom,” they added.
The two eminent diverse Wheaton controversies in most modern years that made headlines and raised eyebrows among some of its alumni. They talked just a few campus-huge e mail that condemned a pro-existence activist for making students essentially feel “unsafe,” the hiring of a primary speed theorist to its school in 2018, and the sponsoring of a speaker who gave a profanity-laden, sexually particular discuss on speed.
They additionally eminent how, in 2021, the college eliminated and reworded a plaque in the college’s chapel that honored the martyrdom of alumni Jim Elliot and Ed McCully, each of whom had been murdered by contributors of the Auca tribe in Ecuador once they attempted to evangelize them in 1956.
After some students expressed offense on the plaque’s description of Elliot and McCully’s murderers as “savage Indians,” the college’s Senior Administrative Cupboard appointed a role power to re-bear in thoughts the plaque, which the class of 1949 proficient to the college in 1957 to honor their slain classmates.
Closing three hundred and sixty five days, Wheaton College President Philip Ryken — the worn senior pastor of Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia — pushed reduction in opposition to a Fox Recordsdata op-ed by alumnus Tim Scheiderer, who accused the college of going “woke.”
“[T]he school in the leafy suburb west of Chicago has begun to mimic Harvard’s wokeness,” Scheiderer wrote.
The op-ed claimed that Wheaton started straying from its “orthodox, Christian moorings” by “banning biblical phrases, instructing serious speed thought, and psychologizing gender identity points.”
Jon Brown is a reporter for The Christian Put up. Send news tricks to jon.brown@christianpost.com
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