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Wheaton College Removes Plaque Honoring Martyred Missionaries Because It Used Word ‘Savage’

Jon Brown
Wheaton College Removes Plaque Honoring Martyred Missionaries Because It Used Word ‘Savage’
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A Christian college in Illinois removed a plaque commemorating a group of martyred missionary alumni because it used the word “savage” to describe the members of an indigenous tribe who speared them to death in Ecuador.

Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois, will be subjecting the plaque, which honors missionaries James Elliot and Ed McCully, to a task force appointed by the school’s Senior Administrative Cabinet, which will determine how best to reword it, according to an email that was forwarded to The Daily Wire and first reported by The Spectator.

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