New York Times Remembers Lansdale Man, Evangelical Christian Author Who Advocated for Social Action
Ronald J. Sider, a Lansdale resident and an evangelical Christian author who urged the faithful to social action on issues like racism and poverty, has died at 82, writes Neil Genzlinger for The New York Times.
Sider was one of the religious leaders in 1973 who issued what is now known as the Chicago Declaration of Evangelical Social Concern. He later summarized the document as a statement “confessing our failure to confront injustice, racism, and discrimination against women, and pledging to do better.”
Sider further pressed the case four years later in his book, Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger. In it, he attacked evangelicals and other Christians who fell for the advertising that promoted the benefits of affluence and laid out what he believed was the biblical command to aid the poor.
The success of his book led him to start Evangelicals for Social Action, a group that has advocated for fighting poverty, nuclear disarmament, and other issues.
He joined Palmer Theological Seminary in St. Davids, where he was an emeritus professor at the time of his death.
Read more about Ronald J. Sider in The New York Times.
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