Evangelical media broadcast the news that Wheaton College had hosted a memorial service for Dr. King, and dozens of letters poured in from confused and angry white evangelicals. Timothy LaHaye, a San Diego pastor who would gain fame as the coauthor of the apocalyptic fiction series Left Behind, found it “incredible that a Christian college could participate in honoring an out-right theological liberal heretic whose ‘non-violent’ demonstrations resulted in the deaths of seventeen people.” He went on to hint that this episode could affect his ability to recommend Wheaton College to his
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