Christian News, The Christian Post. Article. Mary, it seems, is a hot Evangelical topic. As a new professor at Wheaton College, I proposed a course focusing on the Virgin Mary and braced for resistance, but intrigued approval was all that came my way. Nor was I alone. I learned that another course on the Virgin was being offered in a different department at Wheaton the same semester; rather than competing for student attention, both classes quickly filled. And so I packed my syllabus with primary sources, supplemented with Tim Perry’s excellent Mary for Evangelicals, and off we went, twenty-five students and I, on a journey from Luke to Lourdes, from Matthew to Medjugorje. Though an overwhelmingly Protestant class, we enjoyed a visit from fervently Catholic students from the Franciscan University of Steubenville, who gave articulate testimony to lived Marian devotion.
This student’s tender testimony of Marian piety in service to Christ left a lasting impact on all of us. Or so we thought. For many of us, it was the latter. Sojourners: Celebrating 40 Years of Faith in Action for Social Justice. Christianity Today | Theology, Church, Culture. Ransomed Heart Ministries.