CHICAGO (RNS) Wheaton College is rewording a plaque on its campus that referred to Indigenous people as “savage Indians.”
The plaque honors missionaries Jim Elliot, Ed McCully, Nate Saint, RogerYouderian and Pete Fleming who were killed in 1956 while attempting to share their Christian faith with the Waorani people in Ecuador.
It was donated to the school in 1957 by Wheaton’s class of 1949 in remembrance of their classmates, Elliot and McCully. Saint also graduated from the flagship evangelical school a year later.
“In the 64 years since the College received this gift, we have continued to grow in our understanding of how to show God’s love and respect to people from every culture,” Wheaton College President Philip Ryken said in a written statement.
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Editor’s note: CT also offers a collection of tributes by leaders and friends of Padilla.
C. René Padilla, theologian, pastor, publisher, and longtime staff member with the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students, died Tuesday, April 27, at the age of 88.
Padilla was best known as the father of integral mission, a theological framework that has been adopted by over 500 Christian missions and relief organizations, including Compassion International and World Vision. Integral mission pushed evangelicals around the world to widen their Christian mission, arguing that social action and evangelism were essential and indivisible components in Padilla’s words, “two wings of a plane.”
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