Ron Sider was the founder of Evangelicals for Social Action, an evangelical left think tank.
14 Facts About Ron Sider
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Ron Sider was the Distinguished Professor of Theology, Holistic Ministry and Public Policy at Palmer Theological Seminary in St Davids, Pennsylvania.
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Ron Sider graduated from secondary school at Niagara Christian College in Fort Erie, Ontario in 1953 and became the first in his family to go to college.
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Ron Sider attended the Waterloo Lutheran University, in Waterloo, Ontario, and received a BA in European history in 1962.
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In 1968, Ron Sider accepted an invitation from Messiah College to teach at its newly opened Philadelphia Campus in North Philadelphia.
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Ron Sider brought together a network of similarly concerned evangelicals, which in 1973 became the Thanksgiving Workshop on Evangelical Social Concern.
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Ron Sider added his signature to a full-page advertisement in the December 5th, 2008 edition of The New York Times, which condemned violence and intimidation against religious institutions and their followers following the passage of Proposition 8.
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Ron Sider published over 30 books and wrote over 100 articles in both religious and secular magazines on a variety of topics including the importance of caring for creation as part of biblical discipleship.
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Ron Sider later authored Good News Good Works, a call to the church to embrace evangelical left beliefs.
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Completely Pro-Life, published in the mid-1980s, calls on Christians to take a consistent life ethic opposing abortion, capital punishment, nuclear weapons, hunger, and other conditions that Ron Sider sees as anti-life.
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David Chilton's book, Productive Christians in an Age of Guilt Manipulators, with a foreword by Gary North, argues that Ron Sider's book takes a position contrary to the biblical teachings on economics, poverty, and giving, and that the economic model it provides is untenable.
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Ron Sider was the child of a Canadian Brethren in Christ pastor.
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Ron Sider attended Oxford Circle Mennonite Church, was the father of three and lived in Lansdale, Pennsylvania, with his wife Arbutus, a retired family counselor.
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Ron Sider's son Theodore is a tenured professor of philosophy at Rutgers who has published over 50 scholarly articles and three books with Oxford University Press.