Peter Y. Choi

Peter Y. Choi, director of theological education at Newbigin House of Studies, is the author of George Whitefield: Evangelist for God and Empire (2018). His next book is provisionally titled Subverting Faith: Early Evangelicals and the Making of Race (under contract, Oxford University Press).

Activism and the Academy, Archive, OMFG, Politics/Law, Racial JusticeJuly 16, 2020

Tearing Down Evangelical Icons: Why Penn’s Decision to Remove George Whitefield Statue May Be Good for American Evangelicalism

By Peter Y. Choi

It’s a curious fact of history that a statue of John Wesley stands prominently ensconced…