How can evangelical communities work together amidst differences to cast a vision for gospel witness? This article focuses on the origins, process, and legacies of the 1973 Chicago Declaration of Evangelical Social Concern, with reflections on its challenges to Christian higher education today. The process of crafting this document and its resulting institutional and sociocultural…
For the past eight years, I have regularly taught a large, survey course on global poverty and justice at Wheaton College. In the course we learn about difficult and troubling phenomenon. About human suffering caused by greed, violence, and injustice. About the abuse of creation produced by pollution, over-consumption, and the exploitation of natural resources.…