The Real Problem at Wheaton College
Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois, has been accused of slipping into the liberal abyss many times since its founding in 1860. As a recent gradua...
Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois, has been accused of slipping into the liberal abyss many times since its founding in 1860. As a recent graduate, I'm often asked if Wheaton in 2022 has finally 'gone woke.' Yet similar controversies over Wheaton's role as a flagship evangelical institution have persisted for generations, owing to the school's distinctive and outsize role in American Protestant Christianity. Wheaton draws such scrutiny thanks to its delicate position in the evangelical-fundamentalist divide that separated much of American Protestantism in the twentieth century—a divide writers like Carl Trueman and Aaron Renn have chronicled.