C. M. Sheffield
Puritan Board Graduate
The plaque referred to the tribe that murdered five missionaries and threw them in a river as "savage Indians." This was deemed offensive and dehumanizing to indigenous peoples. Which is curious, because I would have thought calling a group that spears unarmed people to death pretty "savage." But that's probably just my white privilege talking.
Wheaton College Removed Plaque Honoring Jim Elliot and Ed McCully
They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; of whom the world was not worthy.—Hebrews 11:37-38
Wheaton College Removed Plaque Honoring Jim Elliot and Ed McCully
They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; of whom the world was not worthy.—Hebrews 11:37-38