Outspoken Wheaton College alumni call for leadership change amid 'spiritual battle'.
'This isn't going to blow over'.By CP Staff,
Two alumni of Wheaton College who have been outspoken about the Evangelical school's alleged leftward drift explained earlier this week that their alma mater has increasingly gone woke and needs new leadership.
Alumni Eric Teetsel and Daniel Davis spent 45 minutes with the Center for Baptist Leadership Executive Director William Wolfe on Monday, discussing their concerns that came to a head earlier this month when the college deleted a Facebook post congratulating and urging prayer for 1998 alumnus Russell Vought for his appointment in the Trump administration.
After some alumni complained, the school removed the post and apologized, claiming "the political situation surrounding [Vought’s] appointment led to a significant concern expressed online," and that "it was not our intention to embroil the College in a political discussion or dispute."
Davis, who graduated from Wheaton in 2014 and penned an article for First Things this month, titled "God and Man at Wheaton," told Wolfe he believes the school's handling of the Vought incident "really encapsulated, I think, the rot in the leadership at Wheaton that I have seen since my time on campus 10 to 15 years ago, which has only born more and more bad fruit in recent years."
"This has been years in the making," he said. "I've been out of college for over 10 years, but since I've left Wheaton, I've met more and more recent alums who have had experiences on campus that just confirmed the drift."
Davis recalled that "conversations on race started to take an identitarian turn" while he was a student. He noted in his article for First Things that during his tenure, there was "a sweeping DEI regime at Wheaton, couched in the Christianese of 'kingdom diversity.'" He remembered a segregated graduation ceremony held for students of color. CT.
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