Dr. Sider is a respected and passionate advocate of holistic biblical faith in the Christian world. Ron grew up in rural southern Ontario, the child of a Canadian Brethren in Christ pastor. He attended the University of Waterloo, in Waterloo, Ontario, and received a BA in European history. It was there that Ron came in contact with the apologetic work of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship (IVCF), and set his sights on a career in academia. Upon graduating in the late '60s with an MDiv and Ph.D. in history from Yale, Ron expected to teach early modern European history on secular university campuses, and continue his work for IVCF. Faced with the glaring needs and blatant injustice of the inner city, Ron began to work toward developing a biblical response to social injustice. In 1973 he organized the Thanksgiving Workshop on Evangelical Social Concern. It was this conference that issued the now historic "Chicago Declaration of Evangelical Social Concern."
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