Wheaton College
What the Larycia Hawkins case means for evangelical colleges (COMMENTARY)
By David P. Gushee — January 8, 2016
(RNS) What Hawkins really violated were the implicit but very real political preferences of Wheaton’s constituency, not the school’s explicit theological standards.
Larycia Hawkins ‘flabbergasted’ by Wheaton’s move to fire her
By Emily McFarlan Miller — January 6, 2016
CHICAGO (RNS) “Wheaton College cannot scare me into walking away from the truth (that) all humans -- Muslims, the vulnerable, the oppressed of any ilk -- are all my sisters and brothers, and I am called by Jesus to walk with them,” Hawkins said.
Wheaton prof faces termination after ‘same God’ comment
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — January 5, 2016
(RNS) Larycia Hawkins was suspended in December after college officials said her theological statements “seemed inconsistent" with the evangelical college's doctrines.
Evangelicals commit to refugee resettlement efforts
By Timothy C. Morgan — December 18, 2015
WHEATON, Ill. (RNS) They said there are nearly 60 million displaced or refugee people worldwide, “a humanitarian crisis of unprecedented size.”
Wheaton College suspension of prof for ‘same God’ comment disgraceful (COMMENTARY)
By Tobin Grant — December 17, 2015
(RNS) The school’s overreaction to a professor’s statement on Islam has turned a minor controversy into a full-fledged fiasco.
Madeleine L’Engle’s foundation awards grant to LGBT group at Wheaton College
By Jonathan Merritt — June 5, 2015
(RNS) OneWheaton is committed to affirming LGBT students but is not officially recognized by the prominent evangelical school, which can expel students caught in homosexual behaviors.
Hastert’s hometown in disbelief over unfolding scandal
By Reuters — June 1, 2015
YORKVILLE, Ill., (Reuters) The decision by Wheaton College to change the name of the J. Dennis Hastert Center for Economics, Government and Public Policy is part of the early fallout from a scandal that is still unfolding.
Wheaton College tackles the death penalty with Jesus in mind (COMMENTARY)
By Shane Claiborne — November 5, 2014
(RNS) This forum is encouraging because it points beyond itself -- to an evangelicalism that looks more like Jesus than the evangelicalism of the past few decades.
In evangelical nonprofits, women leaders lag behind peers in general market
By Adelle M. Banks — October 22, 2014
(RNS) A new study confirms what many have long suspected -- that many evangelical institutions lag far behind the general marketplace in leadership roles for women.
Wheaton College gets a pass from Supreme Court on contraception mandate
By Richard Wolf — July 7, 2014
WASHINGTON (RNS) "Those who are bound by our decisions usually believe they can take us at our word. Not so today," Justice Sonia Sotomayor said after the Supreme Court granted an exemption from the contraception mandate to Wheaton College.
C.S. Lewis, more popular 50 years after his death than he was in life
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey — November 21, 2013
(RNS) “Name another author whose books are being sold more now than they were when they were alive,” said HarperOne's Mickey Maudlin. “His vision for the Christian life is seemingly simple while being very complex."
Fifty years later, C.S. Lewis’ legacy shines in US, not his homeland
By Trevor Grundy — October 25, 2013
(RNS) C.S. Lewis may be the most popular Christian writer in history, but his influence is far greater in the U.S. than in his native Ireland. A conference on the 50th anniversary of his death will examine why.
ANALYSIS: Billy Graham’s legacy is fading ‘into the mists of history’
By Ken Garfield — October 1, 2013
WHEATON, Ill. (RNS) “No matter how badly you have messed up,” Graham biographer Grant Wacker said, echoing a lifetime of Graham messages, “there’s a second chance.”
Contraception opponents hail DC court ruling
By Lauren Markoe — December 19, 2012
(RNS) Opponents of the federal contraception mandate are cheering an appeals court decision requiring the Obama administration to make good on a promise to exempt Christian colleges from the controversial rule. By Lauren Markoe.
Studies say atheists, believers both do good, but for different reasons
By Kimberly Winston — May 29, 2012
(RNS) Atheists and others who don’t adhere to a religion often say they can be good without God. And now, three new studies seem to back them up. By Kimberly Winston.
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