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Wheaton College is a private Evangelical Christian liberal arts college in Wheaton, Illinois, United States. [3] It was founded by evangelical abolitionists in 1860. [ 4 ] Wheaton College was a stop on the Underground Railroad and graduated one of Illinois' first black college graduates.
College Church is an evangelical nondenominational church in the broadly Reformed, congregationalist tradition located in Wheaton, Illinois. It was founded in 1861 by Jonathan Blanchard , who was also the first president of Wheaton College , an unaffiliated university.
The Wheaton College Billy Graham Center Museum, opened in 1980, is designed to help visitors "extend their understanding of the good news about Jesus", [1] and contains exhibits about the history of Christian evangelism in the United States and the ministry of Billy Graham. Changing exhibits are designed around the themes of evangelism ...
R. Kent Hughes (born March 1, 1942) [1] is the former senior pastor of College Church in Wheaton, Illinois, United States.Hughes is the author of numerous books, including the best-selling Disciplines of a Godly Man. [2]
Blanchard saw Wheaton College "as an 'arsenal' and 'drill camp' for the hosts of righteousness in the moral warfare of the world . . . a means of training social activists . . . ." [11] In 1861, Jonathan Blanchard organized College Church in Wheaton. The church first met on the campus of Wheaton College as "The First Church of Christ in Wheaton."
Wheaton College is a private liberal arts college in Norton, Massachusetts. Wheaton was founded in 1834 as a female seminary . The trustees officially changed the name of the Wheaton Female Seminary to Wheaton College in 1912 after receiving a college charter from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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Ryken is the son of the Christian literary scholar and Wheaton professor Leland Ryken. Ryken met his wife, Lisa, while the two were students at Wheaton. They were married after their junior year. The couple have five children, and reside in Wheaton. He is known to enjoy waterskiing, basketball, soccer, golf, and poetry.