‘It is not religious because of the quality of its faith,’ says Eliot, ‘but because of the quality of its doubt. Its faith is a poor thing, but its doubt is a very intense experience.’ 

The story is a bit more complex. In the late 1800s (under their first president), Wheaton was rather progressive. The second president (son of the first) was a dispensationalist who reversed all of that progress

8/16/19 Another result from ELCA Churchwide Assembly – ‘Adopted a resolution to condemn white supremacy, calling all ELCA congregations to engage in a “study of the structures and rhetoric that empower and fuel racism and