Ron Sider, evangelical activist, dies at 82
Ron Sider speaks at Biola University in La Mirada, California, in 2017. (Video screengrab)
Ron Sider, an author, seminary professor and evangelical social justice activist, has died, according to an online update from his son.
“I have some bad news: my father Ron Sider died suddenly last night (July 27, 2022), of a cardiac arrest,” Ted Sider wrote in a post on his father’s Substack newsletter website. “Please join our family in grieving for him.”
Sider, a longtime professor at Palmer Theological Seminary, is best known for his 1977 book, Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving From Affluence to Generosity, and for founding Christians for Social Action, which seeks to rally evangelicals and other Christians to put their faith to work in support of the common good.
