There was hope that the Huaorani could be redeemed, but the spiritual and cultural distance between civilized white Americans and the inscrutable Indians seemed enormous. Would they someday be permitted to have part in winning the Aucas for Christ?” As they engaged these warriors face to face, however, the young missionaries worried about living close to fundamentally untrustworthy “stone age” peoples. She recalled that their first encounters with “isolated, unconquered, seminomadic remnant of age-old jungle Indians. Consider, for example, Through Gates of Splendor (1957), the widely read chronicle of the slayings written by Jim Elliot’s widow Elisabeth Elliot. It reflects a troubling discourse embedded in the midcentury white evangelical missionary enterprise. The language on the plaque implicates more than just young Wheaton alumni. Members of the task force will include a faculty historian, a faculty missiologist, a representative from the Wheaton College Alumni Association Board of Directors, a graduate student, and an undergraduate student. With this in mind, the Senior Administrative Cabinet will appoint a task force to review the wording of the plaque and to make a specific recommendation by May 1 for its careful rewording and replacement, subject to a final decision by the Senior Administrative Cabinet, in consultation with the Board of Trustees. Specifically, the word “savage” is regarded as pejorative and has been used historically to dehumanize and mistreat indigenous peoples around the world.Īny descriptions on our campus of people or people groups should reflect the full dignity of human beings made in the image of God. Recently, students, faculty, and staff have expressed concern about language on the plaque that is now recognized as offensive. 3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.Ĥ Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.ĥ Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me Ħ And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.ħ Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.Ĩ Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.ĩ Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:ġ0 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:ġ1 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.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 others.
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