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Hawkins has made repeated statements to the press asserting her affirmation of the Wheaton College Statement of Faith. [18] [19] She insists that her actions were motivated by Christian faith and that she is an orthodox Protestant. [20]
Wheaton College was founded in 1860. Its predecessor, the Illinois Institute, had been founded in late 1853 by Wesleyan Methodists as a college and preparatory school. . Wheaton's first president, Jonathan Blanchard, was a former president of Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, and a staunch abolitionist with ties to Oberlin Co
More than 100 junior high kids have signed the Covenant for Biblical Sexuality at College Church in Wheaton. Minutes of the First Church of Christ in Wheaton, 1866–1879. Minutes of the First Congregational Church 1879–1909. Minutes of the First Presbyterian Church 1909–1952. A History of DuPage County, Richmond & Vallette 1857.
In 1998, the Arthur F. Holmes Chair of Faith and Learning was established at Wheaton College, supporting the work of scholars in philosophy, history, or English who gave particular attention to the integration of faith and learning, which had been of particular interest to Holmes. [5]
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]
Until 2008, the church was located in Wheaton, Illinois, and retained the geographically oriented name when it relocated to a new campus. Alongside First Presbyterian of Wheaton, Wheaton Bible Church split from College Church early in its history. [2] The church holds $42,560,676 in assets and their annual budget for 2021 is $11,678,000. [3]
OneWheaton first organized in response to Wheaton College's chapel series titled "Sexuality and Wholeness" [2] —which included a message stating that following Jesus and living in a same-sex relationship are incompatible goals [3] —and the seminar "Same-Sex Marriage Affects Everyone"—which hypothesized that allowing same-sex marriage would lead to families abandoning their children, men ...
An article in the SoMA review [3] discusses some of the more controversial aspects of his tenure at Wheaton. Litfin was succeeded as president on July 1, 2010, by Philip Ryken , formerly senior pastor of the Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia and a 1988 graduate of Wheaton.