Apostasy in the Church :: By Jim Fletcher
(I am pleased to launch my first “apostasy” column for RR, which will run once a month. I hope it helps the reader understand why we are where we are in this insane world.)
Wheaton’s weaknesses
It’s never a surprise to learn that America’s Christian institutions of higher learning are storehouses of heresy and apostasy. What is surprising is when some introspection and whistleblowing come from those institutions.
Wheaton College stands as one of the premier Christian colleges in this country. Home to the Billy Graham Center, as well as the alma mater of such luminaries as Jim Elliot, Wheaton is a go-to destination for many Christian students.
I wouldn’t send my kid there if you paid me. Heck, I wouldn’t even drive past the place.
Like other places (Fuller Seminary, Calvin College, etc.), these colleges long ago coveted the approval of the secular world more than they revered God’s Word. As I’ve written many times, Wheaton is one of those places that turn out leftist graduates, and many are pro-Palestinian advocates, having visited Israel/”Palestine.” (I always put quotes around Palestine because no one today can point to such a sovereign state.)
So it was almost shocking this week to hear of a sizeable number of Wheaton people rightly criticizing the college for recently throwing Trump ally-alum Russ Vought under the bus.
Recently, on Wheaton’s official X account, we read:
“Wheaton College congratulates and prays for 1998 graduate Russell Vought regarding his senatorial confirmation to serve as the White House Director of the Office of Management and Budget.”
It was probably the exclamation point that enraged Woke Wheaton. The school later took down the X post. It doesn’t get more pathetic than that. Over 1,500 Wheaton alum signed a letter expressing “deep concern” for the Vought shout-out, something any mentally healthy group could get behind.
For Vought’s part, he issued his own reply: “SAD!” Which sounds a lot like the famous reply to German surrender terms at Bastogne, when American General Anthony McAuliffe said simply, “Nuts!”
Nuts, indeed. Part of the dissenting letter read as follows:
“We see this in the relentless centering of race and the elevation of voices who promote unbiblical pedagogies, like critical theory; the unjust and unbiblical adjudication of alleged violations of the Community Covenant; the de facto capitulation on sexual ethics through the uncritical appropriation of LGBT terminology and identities; and the general tendency to stifle those who bring conservative viewpoints. We also hear about this drift from graduates who attest that some of their professors openly violated the Statement of Faith behind closed doors—for instance, affirming universal salvation or referring to God as both “Father and Mother.”
The sane coterie said they will now do three things: A) cease financial support to Wheaton, B) decline to recommend the school to anyone, and C) share examples of Wheaton’s drift far and wide.
Bravo for these brave souls who do not bend the knee to the devilish spirit of the age.
I think of the corrosive effects of progressivism at Wheaton over the years, people like Dr. Gary Burge and Dr. Ed Stetzer.
Wheaton has many problems. But with this salvo from the sane set, universal stupidity isn’t one of them.
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