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‘We still have work to do’: How to understand the new Juneteenth holiday
By Paul O'Donnell — June 18, 2021
(RNS) — Theon Hill, an expert on rhetoric, race and social change in American culture, discusses Juneteenth and how holidays in general reflect our realities as well as our aspirations as a nation.
For evangelical leader Jamie Aten, advocating for vaccines led to a death threat
By Bob Smietana — April 27, 2021
(RNS) — Aten, who teaches at an evangelical college, has received swarms of angry anti-vaxxer emails — including one saying his work was ‘punishable by death.’
Wheaton tarnishes itself again
By Mark Silk — May 2, 2016
The College needs to take a moral stand on its disgraced alumnus and honoree Dennis Hastert.
Wheaton group blasts college’s silence over Hastert confession
By David Gibson — April 30, 2016
(RNS) The evangelical school’s gay community is “stunned” that Wheaton “has not issued a stronger statement of condemnation” by its famous grad.
Wheaton College must decide hijab-wearing prof’s future — and its own
By Jonathan Merritt — December 16, 2015
(RNS) The "Harvard of evangelicalism" penalizes a professor for saying Muslims and Christians worship the "same God."
Moody Bible Institute drops alcohol and tobacco ban for employees
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey — September 19, 2013
(RNS) Evangelist D.L. Moody was among those who argued for voluntary abstinence from alcohol rather than outright prohibition, and now the Chicago school that bears his name is lifting its ban on alcohol and tobacco for faculty and staff.
Evangelical Wheaton College joins suits against Obama contraception mandate
By David Gibson — July 18, 2012
(RNS) Wheaton College, Billy Graham's alma mater and a leading Christian university, has joined a lawsuit against the Obama administration's birth control health insurance mandate. By David Gibson.
COMMENTARY: A missed opportunity
By Cathleen Falsani — May 1, 2008
c. 2008 Religion News Service CHICAGO _ It would be so refreshing to pick up the newspaper and see a story about my alma mater on the front page that didn’t make me cringe. There’s plenty of good news _ like the story of senior and defensive end on the Thunder football team Andy Studebaker, […]
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